This classic text outlines the development of the Papacy as an institution in the Middle Ages. With profound knowledge, insight and sophistication, Walter Ullmann traces the course of papal history from the late Roman Empire to its eventual decline in the Renaissance.
The focus of this survey is on the institution and the idea of papacy rather than individual figures, recognizing the shaping power of the popes' roles that made them outstanding personalities. The transpersonal idea, Ullmann argues, sprang from Christianity itself and led to the Papacy as an institution sui generis.
- ISBN10 0416086500
- ISBN13 9780416086508
- Publish Date 13 January 1972
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 August 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Egmont UK Ltd
- Imprint Methuen young books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 390
- Language English