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- 1.What Is Papal History? When Did It Begin?
- 2.The Rise of the Petrine Idea
- 3.Popes, Byzantines, and Barbarians
- 4.The Popes in the Age of Charlemagne
- 5.Rome, the Popes, and the Papal Government
- 6.The “age of Iron”
- 7.The Investiture Controversy
- 8.The Papal Monarchy — Institutions
- 9.The Papal Monarchy — Politics
- 10.The Popes at Avignon
- 11.The Great Schism
- 12.The Renaissance Papacy — Politics
- 13.The Renaissance Papacy — Culture
- 14.The Challenge of Reform — Protestantism
- 15.Catholic Reform and Counter Reform
- 16.Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution
- 17.Pius IX — Prisoner of the Vatican
- 18.The Challenge of Modernism
- 19.The Troubled Pontificate of Pius XII
- 20.The Age of Vatican II
- 21.The Transitional Pontificate of Paul VI
- 22.The Vatican and What It Does
- 23.John Paul II — “the Great”?
- 24.Benedict XVI, the Future, and the Past