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On 28 February 2013, a 600-year-old tradition was shattered: the conservative Pope Benedict XVI made a startling announcement. He would resign. Reeling from the news, the College …

Following the completion of the construction of new St. Peter’s in the second decade of the seventeenth century, a series of monumental altarpieces was commissioned to decorate its …

Learn the history of the smallest country in the world and the people and events that shaped it.Stretching from the martyrdom of Saint Peter in 64 to Leo XIV becoming the first …

From a small village in Iran to a childhood spent in a ma’abarah (a refugee and immigration camp) in Israel, and ultimately to the marble corridors of the Vatican, Holy Land, Holy …

Arguably the foundational text of Western political theory, Aristotle's Politics has become one of the most widely and carefully studied works in ethical and political philosophy. …

How did the papacy govern European religious life without a proper bureaucracy and the normal resources of a state? From late Antiquity, papal responses were in demand. The …

This work provides a comprehensive guide to the holdings of the Vatican Archives. Organized into related agency groups, Vatican Archives includes approximately 500 entries that …

In this sometimes controversial book, Lynda Telford explores the lives of women who have had personal and unofficial influence at the Vatican over the centuries. They may have …

In The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome John M. Hunt offers a social history of the papal interregnum from 1559 to 1655. The study concentrates on the Roman people's relationship …

A one of a kind book which provides a look into the closed world of the Vatican in Rome from the perspective of the first Australian Ambassador to the Holy See, Tim Fischer As the …