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The Popes: 50 Celebrated Occupants of the Throne of St. Peter

The Popes: 50 Celebrated Occupants of the Throne of St. Peter


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The papacy is as old as the Christian Church itself, and a crucial influence on the political history of medieval and modern Europe. Pope Leo III's coronation of Charlemagne established the first real imperial power in the West since the fall of Rome and created the model for what would become the Holy Roman Empire; Pope Gregory VII's dispute with the German Emperor over the appointment of church officials exerted a huge influence on the course of medieval German history; the preaching of Pope Urban II led to the First Crusade and centuries of war between the Christian West and Islam; in the 20th century Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy, establishing the Vatican City as a sovereign state. And even today, the Roman Catholic Church's teaching - as expressed through papal pronouncements on matters as diverse as abortion, contraception, terrorism and the problem of global poverty - continues to impact on the lives of billions of people around the world. The 256 occupants of the throne of St Peter have included saints, visionaries, voluptuaries, rogues and cowards; papal lives have embraced a moral spectrum from priestly abstinence and rectitude to worldly excess and depravity. The history and mystique of the papacy exerts a profound fascination for Christians and non-Christians alike. The Popes contains 50 lively biographical essays profiling the greatest occupants of the throne of St Peter, from St Peter himself to John Paul II. Each papal life dovetails with the next, creating an integrated overview of some 2000 years of papal history. The essays can be read as self-contained portraits of individual papal lives, or as a larger narrative chronicling the history of the most important institution of the Christian Church. The Popes is a richly rewarding introduction to an engrossing subject.

Table of Contents:
Foreword - A Word about Words Saints and Martyrs - The early papacy (AD 42-461): Peter; The First Popes; Damasus; Siricius; Innocent I; Leo I. Evangelists and Administrators - The early Medieval papacy (461-1054): Gelasius; Symmachus; Vigilius; Gregory I; Honorius I; Martin I; Zacharias; Stephen II (III); Leo III; Leo IV; Nicholas I; Formosus; The tenth-century papacy; Gregory V; Sylvester II; Leo IX. Reformers and Crusaders - The high Medieval papacy (1054-1303): Gregory VIII; Urban II; Paschal II; Callistus II; Eugenius III; Hadrian IV; Innocent III; Gregory IX; Gregory X; Celestine V; Boniface VIII. Popes and Antipopes - The papacy in the 14th and 15th centuries (1305-1447): Clement V; Gregory XI; Urban VI; The Great Schism; Martin V; Eugenius IV. Authoritarians and Revivalists - The Renaissance and the papacy renewed (1447-1644): Pius II; Alexander VI; Julius II, Pius IV; Pius V; Sixtus V; Urban VIII. Traditionalist and Ecumenists - The papacy, science and the secular state (1644-2007): Benedict XIV; Pius VII; Pius IX; Leo XIII; Pius XII; John XXIII; John Paul II. Chronological list of popes Index

About the Author :
A noted authority on Church history, Michael Walsh is college archivist of Heythrop College and editor of the Heythrop Journal. He is the author of The Conclave: A Sometimes Secret and Occasionally Bloody History.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781847244017
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Quercus Publishing
  • Height: 265 mm
  • Width: 185 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1847244017
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Sub Title: 50 Celebrated Occupants of the Throne of St. Peter


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