A comprehensive, rollicking, and timely history of the papacy.

Donated by John M. McCaffrey.

St. Peter --Defenders of the city (c. 100-536) -- Vigilius (537-555) -- Gregory the Great (590-604) -- Leo III and Charlemagne (795-861) -- Pope Joan (855?-857?) -- Nicholas I and the pornocracy (855-964) -- Schism (964-1054) -- Gregory VII and the Normans -- Innocent and Anacletus -- The English pope -- Alexander III and Frederick Barbarossa -- Innocent III -- The end of the Hohenstaufen -- Avignon -- Laetentur coeli! -- The Renaissance -- The monsters -- The Medici pair -- -- The Counter-Reformation -- Baroque Rome -- The Age of Reason -- The Jesuits and the revolution -- Progress and reaction -- Pio Nono -- Leo XIII and the First World War -- Pius XI and Pius XII -- Vatican II and after.