![]() ![]() ![]() Entertaining and deeply researched, Norwich's history offers a wonderful introduction to papal lives." He conducts us masterfully on a tour of the lives of the popes from Peter to Benedict XVI. "Renowned historian Norwich offers a rollicking account of the men who held the papal office, their shortcomings and their virtues, and the impact of the papacy on world history. Bill Keller, "New York Times" Book Review, Cover review ![]() He keeps things moving at nearly beach-read pace." Norwich manages to organize this crowded stage and produce a rollicking narrative. ![]() ""Absolute Monarchs" sprawls across Europe and the Levant, over two millenniums, and with an impossibly immense cast: 265 popes, feral hordes of Vandals, Huns and Visigoths, expansionist emperors, Byzantine intriguers, Borgias and Medicis, heretic zealots, conspiring clerics, bestial inquisitors and more. 2011, GOOD HARDCOVER IN BRIGHT JACKET, SOME JACKET WEAR RANDOM HOUSE A HISTORY OF THE PAPACY ![]()
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