About this title: The Roman Catholic Church has been in existence for two millennia and has withstood assaults from all manner of secular enemies. And she may still stand when, as Macaulay wrote, "some traveller from New Zealand shall stand upon a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's". This institutional longevity is all the more remarkable given that a number of its leaders were, frankly, bad. In this book, E.R. Chamberlin examines the dark side of the papacy, concentrating on seven pontiffs whose reigns were marked by scandal, mayhem and corruption. They include John XII, who was ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Date Published: 08/2003
ISBN-13:9780880291163ISBN:0880291168
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 310 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Date Published: 08/2003
ISBN-13:9780880291163ISBN:0880291168
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 310 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1971
Description: Good. This paperback book is in Good condition. Complete and solid. "a brilliant history of six centuries of Papal Infamy. a vital and important book. " read more
Edition: Reprint ED
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780880291163ISBN:0880291168
Description: Fine/Fine DJ/Fine. 0-8802-9116-8. read more
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Description: Good. B002Z3HYM2 1st edition, Dial Press hardcover w/ DJ, 1969. Book is G+ to VG minus, w/ clean text, solid binding; foxing at the edges, musty odor, text block v'ed at spine. DJ, of clear plastic w/ white lettering & image, has tear to rear panel. Free delivery confirmation. The Bad Popes chamberlin. read more
Description: Very Good. 0880291168 The Bad Popes ( Hardcover ) E. R. Chanberlin 0-88029-116-8/ light shelf wear / edge wear cover / pages very good condition//"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
Description: NY: Dorset Press 1986, HB, 310p., book club edition in smaller hardbound format, vg/vg, front inside hinge has been reglued because it was loosening. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY Dial Press
Date Published: 1969-01-01
Description: Fair. 1969 1st printing Dial pub. Hardcover. No DJ. Ex-library. Medium wear. 1st blank page removed. No marks in text. Ship same or next day. More Christian books in our store. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dial Press 1969 1st ed, NY
Date Published: 1969
Description: Hardcover; original cloth. Ex-library book with various library ownership markings. Text clean and tight and book otherwise in very good condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780880291163ISBN:0880291168
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Binding is tight, DJ is great is in great condition. Some pages has underlining. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 310 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This is a political history of the Catholic Church from Constantine to the 16th century reformation concentrating, as the title says, on the "bad guys." The Borgias and the Medicis, among lesser known families, used the papacy as a dynasty-building tool. Despite the title, Chamberlin has given us what seems to be a balanced account. Of course it ends too soon to include my personal favorite villians, the Barbarinis."
"This is an interesting account of a string of "bad" popes during the middle ages. Partly reflecting the turbulence of the times, these popes strayed far from the saintly standard of the early apostles -- they were guilty of fomenting wars, simony (buying and selling church offices), intrigue, adultery, and almost any other offense you care to name.
A frontispiece quote from the writings of a historian in 1350 AD says it all: "It were in truth better before the eyes of God and the world that these pastors should entirely renounce dominium temporale: for since Sylvester's time the consequences of temporal power have been innumerable wars and the overthrow of peoples and cities. How is it possible that there has never been any good pope to remedy such evils and that so many wars have been waged for these transient possessions. Truly we cannot serve God and Mammon at he same time, cannot stand with one foot in Heaven and the other on Earth.""
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