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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eamon Duffy |
ISBN: | 9780300115970 0300115970 |
OCLC Number: | 1004969934 |
Notes: | Traitement7. Édition précédente : 2002. |
Description: | 474 pages, [16] pages de planches : illustrations en couleur ; 20 cm |
Contents: | 'Upon this rock' c. AD 33-461. From Jerusalem to Rome ; The Bishops of Rome ; The age of Constantine ; The birth of papal Rome. -- Between two empires 461-1000. Under Gothic kings ; The age of Gregory the Great ; The Byzantine captivity of the papacy ; Empires of the West. -- Set above nations 1000-1447. The era of papal reform ; From papal reform to papal monarchy ; The pinnacle of papal power ; Exile and schism. -- Protest and division 1477-1774. The Renaissance popes ; The crisis of Christendom ; The Counter-Reformation ; The popes in an age of absolutism. -- The pope and the people 1774-1903. The church and the revolution ; From recovery to reaction ; Pio Nono : the triumph of ultramontanism ; Ultramontanism with a liberal face : the reign of Leo XIII. -- The oracles of God 1903-2005. The age of intransigence ; The attack on modernism ; The age of the dictators ; The age of Vatican II ; Papa Wojtyla ; The way we live now. -- Appendix A : Chronological list of popes and antipopes. -- Appendix B : Glossary. -- Appendix C : How a new pope is made. |
Other Titles: | Saints and sinners |
Responsibility: | Eamon Duffy. |
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