Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy - John Julius Norwich
Language: EnglishKeywords: 
Papacy
 Pope Paul III
 Reform
 Scandal
 The Borgas
Shared by:jodindy
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Read by Michael Page
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: Tantor Media
Release date: September 19, 2014
Duration: 18:57:41
With the papacy embattled in recent years, it is essential to have the perspective of one of the world’s most accomplished historians. In Absolute Monarchs, John Julius Norwich captures nearly 2,000 years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue, and scandal. The men (and maybe one woman) who have held this position of infallible power over millions have ranged from heroes to rogues, admirably wise to utterly decadent.
Norwich, who knew two popes and had private audiences with two others, recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. He presents such brave popes as Innocent I, who in the fifth century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, an invader civil authorities could not defeat, and Leo I, who two decades later tamed (and perhaps paid off) Atilla the Hun.
Here, too, are the scandalous figures: Pope Joan, the mythic woman said (without any substantiation) to have been elected in 855, and the infamous “pornocracy”, the five libertines who were descendants or lovers of Marozia, debauched daughter of one of Rome’s most powerful families.
Absolute Monarchs brilliantly portrays such reformers as Pope Paul III, “the greatest pontiff of the sixteenth century”, who reinterpreted the Church’s teaching and discipline, and John XXIII, who in five short years, starting in 1958, “opened the church to the the twentieth century”, instituting reforms that led to Vatican II. 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.
This is not my rip. My thanks to the original uploader.
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 5/5
February 26th, 2019
thank you
February 26th, 2019
Thanks alot :)
February 26th, 2019
Thanks a lot. People today like to critizise the church for the problems it has but one has to see also an insitution that exists now for nearly 2000 years and is the last remembering glance we have of ancient rome the one empire thats more or less a spiritual foundation for the whole of western civilization.
February 26th, 2019
Thanks jo, Norwich is compelling on this subject. Well said, aronar - all institutions are tainted by politics and it’s hard to find a Catholic who doesn’t have a problem with the Curia.
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