Contents

Cover

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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

CHAPTER I.           St. Peter
CHAPTER II.          Defenders of the City (c. 100–536)
CHAPTER III.         Vigilius (537–555)
CHAPTER IV.         Gregory the Great (590–604)
CHAPTER V.          Leo III and Charlemagne (795–861)
CHAPTER VI.         Pope Joan (855?–857?)
CHAPTER VII.        Nicholas I and the Pornocracy (855–964)
CHAPTER VIII.       Schism (964–1054)
CHAPTER IX.        Gregory VII and the Normans
CHAPTER X.         Innocent and Anacletus
CHAPTER XI.        The English Pope
CHAPTER XII.        Alexander III and Frederick Barbarossa
CHAPTER XIII.       Innocent III
CHAPTER XIV.       The End of the Hohenstaufen
CHAPTER XV.        Avignon
CHAPTER XVI.       Laetentur Coeli!
CHAPTER XVII.      The Renaissance
CHAPTER XVIII.     The Monsters
CHAPTER XIX.      The Medici Pair
CHAPTER XX.       The Counter-Reformation
CHAPTER XXI.       Baroque Rome
CHAPTER XXII.      The Age of Reason
CHAPTER XXIII.     The Jesuits and the Revolution
CHAPTER XXIV.     Progress and Reaction
CHAPTER XXV.      Pio Nono
CHAPTER XXVI.     Leo XIII and the First World War
CHAPTER XXVII.    Pius XI and Pius XII
CHAPTER XXVIII.   Vatican II and After

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