Popes and the Papacy : a history

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Lectures study the reason for the Catholic Church's papacy, how popes are chosen, and what kind of men have filled the office. Abstract: Lectures study the reason for the Catholic Church's papacy, how popes are chosen, and what kind of men have filled the office Content: Part 1. disc 1. lecture 1. What is Papal history? When did it begin? -- lecture 2. The rise of the Petrine idea -- lecture 3. Popes, Byzantines, and barbarians -- lecture 4. The Popes in the age of Charlemagne -- lecture 5. Rome, the popes, and the Papal government -- lecture 6. The "Age of Iron"-- disc 2. lecture 7. The Investiture controversy -- lecture 8. The Papal monarchy : institutions -- lecture 9. The Papal monarchy : politics -- lecture 10. The Popes at Avignon -- lecture 11. The Great Schism -- lecture 12. The Renaissance papacy : politics. Part 2. disc 3. lecture 13. The Renaissance papacy : culture -- lecture 14. The challenge of reform : Protestantism -- lecture 15. Catholic reform and counter reform -- lecture 16. Absolutism, enlightenment, and revolution -- lecture 17. Pius IX : prisoner of the Vatican -- lecture 18. The challenge of modernism -- disc 4. lecture 19. The troubled pontificate of Pius XII -- lecture 20. The age of Vatican II -- lecture 21. The transitional pontificate of Paul VI -- lecture. The Vatican and what it does -- lecture 23. John Paul II : "The Great"? -- lecture 24. Benedict XVI, the future, and the past.