Saints & sinners : a history of the popes

522 Pages·2006·2.92 MB·English

by  Duffy

FOR JENNY
Published in association with S4C (Wales) First published as a Yale Nota Bene Book in 2002

Copyright © Eamon Duffy 1997
New material © Eamon Duffy 2006, 2014

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ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11597-0

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface

1 ‘UPON THIS ROCK’ C. AD 33–461
I From Jerusalem to Rome
II The Bishops of Rome
III The Age of Constantine IV The Birth of Papal Rome
2 BETWEEN TWO EMPIRES 461–1000
I Under Gothic Kings
II The Age of Gregory the Great III The Byzantine Captivity of the Papacy
IV Empires of the West

3 SET ABOVE NATIONS 1000–1447
I The Era of Papal Reform
II From Papal Reform to Papal Monarchy III The Pinnacle of Papal Power
IV Exile and Schism

4 PROTEST AND DIVISION 1477–1774
I The Renaissance Popes
II The Crisis of Christendom III The Counter-Reformation IV The Popes in
an Age of Absolutism
5 THE POPE AND THE PEOPLE 1774–1903
I The Church and the Revolution II From Recovery to Reaction III Pio
Nono: The Triumph of Ultramontanism IV Ultramontanism with a
Liberal Face: The Reign of Leo XIII
6 THE ORACLES OF GOD 1903–2005
I The Age of Intransigence II The Attack on Modernism III The Age of the
Dictators IV The Age of Vatican II