Upon this rock : the popes and their changing role - Collins, Paul, 1940- (Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2000)
Machine generated contents note: 1 From the New Testament to Constantine the Great -- 2 The Consolidation of the Papacy -- 3 The Popes in the Early Middle Ages -- 4 Through the Saeculum Obscurum-The Dark Age -- 5 The Medieval Papacy at Its Height -- 6 Avignon and the Great Western Schism -- 7 From the Renaissance to the French Revolution -- 8 The Nineteenth-Century Papacy -- 9 Benedict XV to 1958 -- 10 The Council and Conciliar Popes -- 11 Pope John Paul II -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-386) and index.
Keywords: Catholic Church -- History; Popes -- Primacy; Papacy -- History