"This work of history examines how the Renaissance popes adopted print as a medium for political discourse in the first decades after the technology's invention (ca. 1470-1520). Drawing on literary and material analyses of dozens of little-known incunabula and early sixteenth-ce…
This is a revised edition of C.H. Lawrence's classic study of relations between the papacy and England, from the conversion of England by St Augustine in 597 to the eve of the Reformation.
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority. "In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. Wit…
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority. "In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. Wit…
"In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array…
