Ebook {Epub PDF} The Popes: A History by John Julius Norwich

7 rows · The Popes.: John Julius Norwich traces the papal line down the centuries from St Peter /5(13).  · The Popes: A History by John Julius Norwich: review. The historian and master-ironist Edward Gibbon had a lot of fun with the papacy. Of one 10th-century pope he wrote: “We read with some.  · History Audio Books John Julius Norwich The Popes A History Part

History Audio Books John Julius Norwich The Popes A History Part Norwich brings the story to the present day with Benedict XVI, who is coping with a global priest sex scandal. Epic and compelling, Absolute Monarchs is the astonishing story of some of history's most revered and reviled figures, men who still cast light and shadows on the Vatican and the world today. © John Julius Norwich (P) Tantor. John Julius Norwich expertly examines the history of the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter to the presentOf the odd holders of the supreme office, some have unquestionably been saints; others have wallowed in unspeakable immorality. One was said to have been a woman, her sex being revealed only when she improvidently gave.

John Julius Norwich is the author of histories of Norman Sicily, the Republic of Venice, the Byzantine Empire, the Mediterranean and, most recently, The Popes. He is also the editor of Darling Monster, a collection of letters his mother Lady Diana Cooper wrote to him. He has written on architecture, music and the history plays of Shakespeare, and has presented some thirty historical documentaries on BBC Television. John Julius Norwich has taken a chronological approach to this work, starting with St Peter, and proceeding through each Pope, and anti - pope, to the present day papacy of Benedict XVI. Whilst enjoyable and informative reading, this book made it rather clear to me how much of European history is vague or unknown to me, and has definitely prompted further reading for the future. John Julius Norwich has an equally troubling sentence in the opening paragraph of his stylish and enjoyably opinionated history of the popes: "What cannot be denied is that Roman Catholicism began.