Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy - John Julius Norwich

John Julius Norwich

Category: Spiritual & Religious

Narrator: Michael Page

Tags: Spiritual & Religious, History, Adults

Publisher: Tantor Media Release date: September 19, 2014 Duration: 18:57:41, With the papacy embattled in recent years, it is essential to have the perspective of one of the worlds most accomplished historians. In Absolute Monarchs, John Julius Norwich captures nearly 2,000 years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue, and scandal. The men (and maybe one woman) who have held this position of infallible power over millions have ranged from heroes to rogues, admirably wise to utterly decadent., Norwich, who knew two popes and had private audiences with two others, recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. He presents such brave popes as Innocent I, who in the fifth century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, an invader civil authorities could not defeat, and Leo I, who two decades later tamed (and perhaps paid off) Atilla the Hun., Here, too, are the scandalous figur