The Popes: A History (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Popes Examines the Popes, an oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter (traditionally - but by no means historically - the first Pope) to the present, and from the glories of Byzantium to the decay of Rome, from the Albigensian Heresy to controversy within the Church today.
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 04 May 2012
- Format: Paperback 528 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Church History | Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church | Christian Leaders & Leadership
- ISBN 13: 9780099565871 ISBN 10: 0099565870
- Sales rank: 7,571
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Full description for The Popes
John Julius Norwich examines the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter (traditionally - but by no means historically - the first Pope) to the present. Of the 280-odd holders of the supreme office, some have unquestionably been saints; others have wallowed in unspeakable iniquity. One was said to have been a woman, her sex being revealed only when she improvidently gave birth to a baby during a papal procession. Almost as shocking was Formosus whose murdered corpse was exhumed, clothed in pontifical vestments, propped up on a throne and subjected to trial. From the glories of Byzantium to the decay of Rome, from the Albigensian Heresy to controversy within the Church today, The Popes is superbly written, witty and revealing.
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