A History of the Papacy during the Period of the Reformation

Mandell Creighton's five-volume work on the papacy during the Renaissance was first published between 1882 and 1894.

Mandell Creighton (Author)

9781108041096, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 December 2011

332 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

Mandell Creighton's five-volume study of the papacy during the Reformation was first published between 1882 and 1894. Lytton Strachey paid an indirect compliment to Creighton's work by remarking that 'the biscuit is certainly dry; but at any rate there are no weevils'. Creighton (1843–1901) was an academic and an ordained Anglican. Having studied at Oxford and spent time in the parish of Embleton in Northumberland, he was appointed the first Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge, became Bishop of Peterborough and ended his career as Bishop of London. Volume 4 (1887) continues the account of Alexander VI and his son Cesare Borgia. In 1503 Julius II, the 'Warrior Pope' was elected, and Creighton gives a full narrative of the wars and alliances that the papacy subsequently became embroiled in. He also describes the sessions of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512–17), and the succession of Leo X.

Book V continued. The Italian Princes. 1464–1518: 10. Alexander VI and Cesare Borgia. 1500–2
11. Death of Alexander VI. 1503
12. The fall of Cesare Borgia. Pius III. Julius II. 1503–4
13. First plans of Julius II. 1504–6
14. The League of Cambrai. 1506–10
15. The wars of Julius II. 1510–11
16. The Holy League. 1511–13
17. Rome under Julius II
18. Beginnings of Leo X. 1513–15
19. Francis I in Italy. 1515–16
20. Close of the Lateran Council. 1517
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]