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Cambridge History of the Papacy, Vol 1: The Two Swords

General Introduction

Papal elections and resignations

The Cambridge History of the Papacy. Vol 2: The Governance of the church

The Cambridge History of the Papacy. Vol. 3: Civil Society

The College of Cardinals

Inventing the Early Modern Papacy: Four Paradigms

Locating the Renaissance Curia, c.1420–c.1530

Historicizing institutional mobility: the case of the Roman Catholic Church

Pope Francis counts his blessings

Review: Celeste McNamara, The Bishop’s Burden: Reforming the Catholic Church in Early Modern Italy

“A point of no return”: Pope Francis throws caution to the wind

Why the Middle Ages still matters to Middle Australia

Lament for the Catholic University

Pope Francis should stop cosying up to authoritarian regimes

The Last Conclave?

Medieval Orientalism and Pope Francis's Journey to the East

Pope Francis’ new cardinals

Review: Emily Michelson, Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance

Remembering Fabian LoSchiavo (1949–2023): Australian nun

Cut price Coronation: Why King Charles shouldn’t modernise the monarchy

“Fair play?” Gary Lineker, the BBC, and the complex demands of impartiality

Serious Christians don’t mind a Jesus joke

Kate Forbes and the place of Christians in public life

When two popes become one

18. ‘Pope Francis’ “sin-crime distinction” and the history of Christian sexuality

Cardinal Pell’s losing game

For George Pell, the Church was nothing if not a bastion of conservatism

George Pell: a “political bruiser” whose Church legacy will be overshadowed by child abuse allegations

God’s Ruckman: Pell played Church politics hard but won few fans

Will History judge Benedict XVI more kindly than his contemporaries?

Benedict XVI: the pope of paradox’

Benedict XVI (1927–2022): the pope of paradox

Gay suffering and divine love: a reflection for World A.I.D.S. Day

Regime change in Papal Rome: Pius IV and the Carafa (1559-1561)

Queen Elizabeth, the language of Christianity, and the "defence of the faith"

What the Queen meant to Christians

The “papalisation” of apology: what will be the significance of Pope Francis’s visit to Canada?

Gaspar Sanz's ‘Ecos Sagrados de la Fama Gloriosa de Innocencio XI’ (1681) and Clerical Cultures of Diversion in Baroque Spain

Roe vs Wade: the bishops’ dilemma

Pope Francis’s remarks on pornography betray his equivocal position on sexual ethics

Father Stu: the consolations of a calling

Ringing in the papal restoration: Francesco Cancellieri's treatise on the Capitoline bells (1806)

History Lessons: what Australians can, and should, learn from the curious case of Tobias Rustat

Morrison’s narrow view of universities is alien to Menzies

“A path to self-destruction for the Church”: Cardinal George Pell and the status of gay Catholics

Forget Patrick: March 17 is also St Gertrude’s Day, commemorating the patron saint of cats

Pope Francis in War and Peace

War in Ukraine highlights lack of knowledge of European History

Olga of Kyiv is Ukraine’s patron saint of both defiance and vengeance

When baptism goes wrong: the Church’s rules in a new era of legalism

Historians and the Practice of History: a further response to John Dickson

Benedetta: Paul Verhoeven’s “convent life gone wrong”

Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536, the “worst year to be alive”’

An early modern historian plays (word)games

What now for senior clergy who covered up abuse?

On historians and the historicity of Jesus: a response to John Dickson

Pope Francis, pets, and the Christian ideal of marriage

Papal Rome in lockdown: proximities, temporalities, and emotions during the im/mobility of the conclave

When Pope Francis Comes of Age

The dangers of elevating social ethos to religious orthodoxy

The early modern cardinal: an historical appraisal

Review: Pascale Rihouet and Jennifer DeSilva (eds.), Eternal Ephemera: The Papal Possesso and its Legacies in Early Modern Rome

If I could go anywhere: the “cathedral” at Blythburgh that rises from the marshes

George Pell’s “Prison Journals”: Can the Cardinal answer his critics?

The colour of money: Can Pope Francis curtail the wealth of the cardinals?

The ostentatious story of the “young pope” Leo X: his pet elephant, the cardinal he killed and his anal fistula

A promiscuous she-pope with a dilated cervix: The legend of Pope Joan, who gave birth on a horse

The Jesuit Giambattista Tolomei (1653–1726): Cardinal and Philosopher

Introduction

Review: Emily O’Brien, The Commentaries of Pope Pius II (1458–1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy

A companion to the early modern cardinal

Cardinals and the non-Christian world

The college of cardinals

The early modern historiography of early modern cardinals

Review: Felicia Rosu, Elective Monarchy in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1569–1587

Review: David Kertzer, The Pope who would be King: the exile of Pius IX and the emergence of Modern Europe

The Meaning of Creation

Rome and Home: putting a positive spin on Anglo-Papal Relations

The Roman Curia

Review: Kimberly Lynn and Erin Kathleen Rowe (eds.), The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches (CUP, 2017)

Review: John Hunt, The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome: A Social History of the Papal Interregnum. Leiden: Brill, 2016.

Woolf: The First Blockchain University

Antonio de Fuenmayor’s Life of Pius V: A Pope in Early Modern Spanish Historiography

Review: Massimo Rospocher, Il papa guerriero: Giulio II nello spazio pubblico europeo (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2015)

The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age, Thomas Albert Howard, Oxford University Press, 2017 (ISBN 978-0-198-72919-8), xx + 346 pp., hb £35

Book review: The Papacy and the Orthodox: Sources and History of a Debate

Cultures of secrecy in pre-modern papal elections

Francisco Vargas

Cultures of Voting in Pre-Modern Europe

Review: Dissolving Royal Marriages: A Documentary History, 860–1600, by David d’Avray (CUP, 2014) and Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage, 860–1600, by David d’Avray (CUP, 2015)

Review: Fabrizio d'Avenia, La Chiesa del re: Monarchia e Papato nella Sicilia spagnola (secc. XVI–XVII) (Studi Storico Carocci, no. 256.) Rome: Carocci editore, 2015. Pp. 183

Review: The Other Catholics: Remaking America's Largest Religion, Julie Byrne, Columbia University Press, 2016 (ISBN 978-0-231-16676-8), xx + 412 pp., hb $29.95

Review: Harald E.Braun and Jesús Pérez-Magallón (eds.), The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque: Complex Identities in the Atlantic World. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. xiv + 315 pp. £80.00. ISBN: 978-1472427502 (hb).

Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700

Review: Stephen J. C. Andes and Julia G. Young (eds), Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II. Catholic University of America Press, 2016.

Review: The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon. By Annemarie Jordan Gschwend and K.J.P. Lowe (eds) London: Paul Holberton, 2015.

The Accolti Conspiracy (1564)

The Carafa Trial (1560-1561)

Review: The Reception of Machiavelli in Early Modern Spain. By Keith David Howard. Woodbridge: Tamesis. 2014.

Review: Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher M.S. Johns and Philip Gavitt (eds), Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. 505pp.

Thomas F. Mayer (1951-2014) and the Roman Inquisition: a review essay

From Ambassador to Cardinal? Francisco de Vargas at the papal court (1559-63)

Rome as a ‘spanish avignon’? The spanish faction and the monarchy of philip II

Review: Machiavelli: A Portrait. By Christopher Celenza (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).

Review: Sacred communities, shared devotions. Gender, material culture, and monasticism in late medieval Germany. By June L. Mecham (ed. Alison I. Beach, Constance H. Berman and Lisa M. Bitel). (Medieval Women. Texts and C...

Review: Morte e elezione del papa: Norme, riti e conflitti. Il medioevo, by Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Rome: Viella, 2013).

The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Review: The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509-1580): Between Council and Inquisition by Adam Patrick Robinson (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012).

The conclaves of 1590 to 1592: An electoral crisis of the early modern papacy?

Pius IV and the Fall of The Carafa

Review: Papal Justice: Subjects and Courts in the Papal State, 1500–1750 . By Irene Fosi. Translated by Thomas V. Cohen. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2011. Pp. xiv+272. $29.95

Review: The Papacy since 1500: From Italian Prince to Universal Pastor - Edited by James Corkery and Thomas Worcester (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Review: M.E. Bratchel, Medieval Lucca and the Evolution of the Renaissance State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxi + 249pp. Maps. £65.00.David S. Peterson and Daniel E. Bornstein (eds.), Florence and Beyond: Cul...

Review: Klöster und Landschaft. Das kulturräumliche Erbe der Orden. Edited by Johannes Meier. (Schriftenreihe des Westfälischen Heimatbundes.) Pp. 144 incl. 74 ills. Münster: Aschendorff, 2010. €19,80. 978 3 402 12786 5

Review: Creating Clare of Assisi. Female Franciscan identities in later medieval Italy. By Lezlie S. Knox. (The Medieval Franciscans, 5.) Pp. xv+227. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2008. €89. 978 90 04 16651 6; 1572 6991

Governor and government in sixteenth-century Rome

Research Report (Rome Scholarship): The Politics of Nepotism in Sixteenth-Century Rome

The Canonisation of Clare of Assisi and Early Franciscan History

Corpus Lives 1352-2002

All in the best possible taste

Church and State: Paolo Prodi’s Il sovrano pontefice

Dressing Pope Francis: his public costume between pontifical, Jesuit, and Franciscan traditions

End Game: Pope Francis’ succession planning

Monsignor Alfred Gilbey: remembering England’s “best-known priest”

Priests and their bodies after trent: (dis)abilities, masculinities, sexualities

Review: Carlos Eire, They Flew: A History of the Impossible

Review: Death by a thousand cuts: a new study of a tainted pontiff

Review: Europe’s dowager empress: Maria Theresa and the fate of the Habsburgs

Review: Mano a mano: Napoleon and the papacy

Review: Seeing is believing: the sham of Roman autocracy

Review: The “concordat” game: big data and the origins of the West

Review: “What a piece of artistry”

The theology of chocolate