From the Bookshelf of DePaul University Libraries…

[close] With a history spanning two centuries, many books written about the papacy are dense volumes that don’t always lend themselves to a pleasurable reading experience. Eamon Duffy has deftly winnowed this history into a nimble narrative of a select group of popes in Ten Popes who Shook the World. The men discussed in this work were in office from AD 64 through 2005, and in addition to shaking the world, they also shaped history, and not always in a religious context. Duffy asks the question in his introduction whether or not “the papacy is a coherent project, or an historical conglomerate…” (p. 10). Regardless of the answer to this question, Duffy has written a cohesive and accessible account of ten popes beginning with St. Peter through the papacy of John Paul II. (John T. Richardson Library, Call Number: 282.0922 D858T)

--Sue S.

(Originally posted in the DePaul University Library "The Full Text" blog: http://bit.ly/16FahIq)