The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome : During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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Drawing on a wealth of manuscript and primary sources from across Europe, Ranke's history narrates and contextualises the fortunes of the papacy in one of its most tumultuous eras. Volume 2 examines the Counter-Reformation across Europe (and in fact introduces that term to the English language).