The 'Crises in the History of the Papacy' is a fascinating study about the careers of twenty famous popes, whose lives influenced the development of the Church as well as the history of the world. It provides a perspective of the Papacy from the early 3rd to the early 20th century, as the Papacy has the most varied and remarkable history. This edition includes the lives and legacy of:_x000D_ St. Callistus and the Early Struggle_x000D_ St. Damasus and the Triumph_x000D_ Leo the Great, the Last Pope of Imperial Rome_x000D_ Gregory the Great, the First Mediæval Pope_x000D_ Hadrian I. and the Temporal Power_x000D_ Nicholas I. and the False Decretals_x000D_ John X. and the Iron Century_x000D_ Hildebrand_x000D_ Innocent III.: The Papal Zenith_x000D_ John XXII.: The Court at Avignon_x000D_ John XXIII. and the Great Schism_x000D_ Alexander VI.: The Borgia-Pope_x000D_ Julius II.: The Fighting Pope_x000D_ Leo X. and the Dance of Death_x000D_ Paul III. and the Counter-Reformation_x000D_ Sixtus V. and the New Church_x000D_ Benedict XIV.: The Scholar-Pope_x000D_ Pius VII. and the Revolution_x000D_ Pius IX._x000D_ Leo XIII.