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The first full study of the most remarkable history of the early popes and their relationship with Rome, the Liber pontificalis.

An examination of papal art during the first quarter of the eighteenth century.

This 2002 book attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the role of the early modern papacy by focusing on the actual mechanisms of po

Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed monumental upheavals in both the Catholic and Protestant faiths and the repercussions rippled down to the churches’ religi