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LEADER: 01992nam a22002418a 4500
001 2009015746
003 DLC
005 20090421134631.0
008 090414s2009 mdu 001 0deng
010 $a 2009015746
020 $a9781580512275 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9781580512299 (electronic)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aBX955.3$b.O43 2009
082 00 $a282.092/2$222
100 1 $aO'Malley, John W.
245 12 $aA history of the popes :$bfrom Peter to the present /$cJohn W. O'Malley.
260 $aLanham, Md. :$bSheed & Ward,$c2009.
263 $a0910
300 $ap. cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aPreface -- Introduction -- Part I: From the margins to the center of the Roman world -- Peter : bishop of Rome? -- After Peter and Paul -- Constantine : the thirteenth apostle -- Prosperity to crisis : Damasus and Leo the Great -- Gregory the great -- Part II: Bringing order out of chaos -- Greeks, Lombards, Franks -- Charlemagne : savior or master? -- Their darkest hour -- Saving the papacy from itself -- Gregory VII : who's in charge here? -- Part III: Dvelopment, decline, disarray -- Compromises, crusades, councils, concordats -- Innocent III : vicar of Christ -- Boniface VIII : big claims, big humiliation -- Avignon : the Babylonian captivity -- Three popes at a time : the great western schism -- Part IV: Renaissance and Reformation -- The restored papacy -- The Renaissance popes -- Luther, Leo, and the aftermath -- Paul III : a turning point -- Five popes and a council -- The new Rome -- Part V: Into the modern era -- The storm breaks -- Pius VII : bowed down and raised up -- Beleaguered, infallible, and prisoner again -- Leo XIII : searching for solutions -- Pius X : confronting modern culture -- Part VI: The papacy as a global institution -- War, peace, fascism -- Pius XII : saint or sinner? -- John XXIII : peace and reconciliation -- Paul VI : in a tight spot -- John Paul II : the world is my parish.
650 0 $aPapacy$xHistory.