The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages, Volume 09: Drawn from the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources

The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages #9

by Ludwig von Pastor (Creator), Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (Creator)

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560 pages, Hardcover

First published August 13, 2015

About the author

Ludwig Pastor, later Ludwig von Pastor, Freiherr von Campersfelden (31 January 1854 – 30 September 1928), was a German historian and a diplomat for Austria. He became one of the most important Roman Catholic historians of his time and is most notable for his History of the Popes. He was raised to the nobility by the Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1908. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times.

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[Josiah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ludwig Pastor was a 19th century German Catholic historian who wrote a 40 volume series tracing the lives of the popes from the Avignon captivity down to the time of Napoleon. This volume covers the papacy of Hadrian VI (the last non-Italian pope until John Paul II) and the early part of Clement VII. It's interesting to note how little of the pope's time was spent on the emergence of Protestantism and Martin Luther, as opposed to the bickering between France and Spain.