The Rise and Progress of the Papal Power. Translated from the French of the Abbe Vertot. By John Stacie, Esq
Author: Vertot (abbé de)
Publisher:
Published: 1739
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13:
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Absolute Power
Author: Paul Collins
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1541762002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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. With cardinals scattered across Europe and the next papal election uncertain, even if Catholicism survived, it seemed the papacy was finished. In this gripping narrative of religious and political history, Paul Collins tells the improbable success story of the last 220 years of the papacy, from the unexalted death of Pope Pius VI in 1799 to the celebrity of Pope Francis today. In a strange contradiction, as the papacy has lost its physical power -- its armies and states -- and remained stubbornly opposed to the currents of social and scientific consensus, it has only increased its influence and political authority in the world.
Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
Author: Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-25
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1108836828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full study of the most remarkable history of the early popes and their relationship with Rome, the Liber pontificalis.
The Pope and Mussolini
Author: David I. Kertzer
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 587
ISBN-13: 0198716168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini. A ground-breaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives by US National Book Award-finalist David Kertzer, it will forever change our understanding of the Vatican's role in the rise of Fascism in Europe.
The rise of papal power traced in 3 lectures
Author: Robert Hussey
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Formation of Papal Authority in Late Antique Italy
Author: Kristina Sessa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-11-21
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1139504592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first cultural history of papal authority in late antiquity. While most traditional histories posit a 'rise of the papacy' and examine popes as politicians, theologians and civic leaders, Kristina Sessa focuses on the late Roman household and its critical role in the development of the Roman church from c.350–600. She argues that Rome's bishops adopted the ancient elite household as a model of good government for leading the church. Central to this phenomenon was the classical and biblical figure of the steward, the householder's appointed agent who oversaw his property and people. As stewards of God, Roman bishops endeavored to exercise moral and material influence within both the pope's own administration and the households of Italy's clergy and lay elites. This original and nuanced study charts their manifold interactions with late Roman households and shows how bishops used domestic knowledge as the basis for establishing their authority as Italy's singular religious leaders.
The Invention of Power
Author: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2022-01-18
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 154177440X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world? Western exceptionalism—the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent—is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others. Yet in The Invention of Power, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita draws on his expertise in political maneuvering, deal-making, and game theory to present a revolutionary new theory of Western exceptionalism: that a single, rarely discussed event in the twelfth century changed the course of European and world history. By creating a compromise between churches and nation-states that, in effect, traded money for power and power for money, the 1122 Concordat of Worms incentivized economic growth, facilitated secularization, and improved the lot of the citizenry, all of which set European countries on a course for prosperity. In the centuries since, countries that have had a similar dynamic of competition between church and state have been consistently better off than those that have not. The Invention of Power upends conventional thinking about European culture, religion, and race and presents a persuasive new vision of world history.
The Rise of the Papal Power Traced in Three Lectures
Author: Robert Hussey
Publisher:
Published: 1863
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMemoirs of the King's Supremacy, and of the Rise, Progress and Results of the Supremacy of the Pope, in Different Ages and Nations, So Far as Relates to Civil Affairs
Author: Thomas Brooke Clarke
Publisher:
Published: 1809
Total Pages: 438
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Author: Robert B. Eno
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2008-10-28
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1606081705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert B. Eno, S.S., held his doctorate in theology from Institute Catholique de Paris. His work in ecumenical and historical studies was widely recognized, and he devoted much research to the focal question of doctrinal authority. He was professor of church history at the Catholic University of America.
