Table of Contents

Preface • 1. The Rise to Power • 2. Struggling with East and West and the End of the World • 3. Crusades and Exile – Low Point and Recovery • 4. From Glory to Infirmity • 5. Trying to Come Full Circle • Table of Feast Days • Bibliography, Credits and Index

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A highly readable popular history and a unique work of reference

About the Author

Dr Peter Maxwell-Stuart is a Research Fellow in the Department of History and Economic History at the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Reformation Studies.

Reviews

'Relates the whole chronicle with gusto, including maps, time lines and extensive quotations from contemporary sources' - The Catholic Herald

'A valuable work of reference and virtually a history of the Papacy itself' - Contemporary Review