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

The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and compa

Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 offers a radical reassessment of the history of early modern papacy, constructed through the first major anal

When the British thought of themselves as a Protestant nation their natural enemy was the pope and they adapted their view of history accordingly. In contrast,