The Papacy Gaius Proxies

For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Papacy: An Encyclopedia website. Routledge is pleased to publish this acclaimed resource in a revised, expanded, and updated English language edition, translated by a team of experts in papal history. This comprehensive three-volume reference not only covers all of the popes (and anti-popes) from St. Peter to John Paul II, but also explores the papacy as an institution. Articles cover the inner workings--both contemporary and historical--of the Holy See, and encompass religious orders, papal encyclicals, historical events, papal controversies, the arts, and more. This set is destined to be the standard English-language reference for all issues concerning the papacy. Also inlcludes five maps.

A history of the papacy from the post-apostolic period to the Renaissance.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Structured by detailed studies of significant Popes, these essays explore the evolution of the papacy in the last 500 years.

Brings vividly to life the achievements and effects, historical and cultural, theological and geographical, of the See of Rome.