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Author | : Eleanor Herman |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 006182741X |
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Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Church in Mistress of the Vatican, a scintillating biography of a powerful yet little-known woman whose remarkable story is ripe with secrets, sex, passion, and ambition. For almost four centuries this astonishing story of a woman’s absolute power over the Vatican has been successfully buried—until now.
Author | : Hubert Wolf |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2015-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385351925 |
Download The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the Church’s Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of Sant’Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent’s beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations, Maria Luisa began to lead and coerce her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies. She entered into a highly eroticized relationship with a young theologian known as Padre Peters—urging him to dispense upon her, in the privacy and sanctity of the confessional box, what the two of them referred to as the “special blessing.” What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical significance, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail. Offering a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and drawing on written testimony and original documents, Professor Wolf—Germany’s leading scholar of the Catholic Church, and among the very first scholars to be granted access to the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the office of the Inquisition—tells the incredible story of how one woman was able to perpetrate deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Church itself.
Author | : Eric Russell Chamberlin |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780880291163 |
Download The Bad Popes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The stories of seven popes who ruled at seven different critical periods in the 600 years leading into the Reformation.
Author | : Brenda Ralph Lewis |
Publisher | : Amber Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 190869632X |
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From corruption to nepotism, from crusade to witch-burning to Inquisition, from popes sanctioning murder to popes being murdered, Dark History of The Popes explores more than 1000 years of sinister deeds surrounding the papacy.
Author | : C. W. Gortner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345533976 |
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Trade paperback edition includes a reader's guide.
Author | : Eleanor Herman |
Publisher | : Crux Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-05-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1909979651 |
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Author | : Lynda Telford |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2020-02-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1445686244 |
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A revealing history of women who were a power behind the papal throne. Engaging, controversial and sometimes illuminating.
Author | : Paul Hofmann |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2002-10-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781429975476 |
Download The Vatican's Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Four hundred of the 3,800 people who permanently live or work in the State of Vatican City, the smallest sovereign and independent state on the globe, are women. They are nuns and members of the laity; some are housekeepers of churchmen; others are secretaries, translators, editors, lawyers, and middle-level officials of the papal administration. Expansive in scope and enlightening in detail, The Vatican's Women recalls women who wielded power in the Vatican, including St. Catherine of Siena, Queen Christina of Sweden, Mother Pascalina (Pope Pius XII's longtime housekeeper and confidante), and Mother Teresa. With an unflinching eye, Paul Hofmann examines the papacy's reaction to Catholic women's (and nuns') liberation, and women's struggles, especially today, to fortify their positions within the Church. The Vatican's Women is a thorough and revealing exploration that will herald a new level of insight and dialogue amongst feminists, theologians, and laypeople alike.
Author | : Pierre Blet |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780809105038 |
Download Pius XII and the Second World War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first one-volume history, based on the Vatican archives, of Pope Pius XII and his dealings with the contesting powers and with the Jews during World War II.
Author | : Steve Berry |
Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250140269 |
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The next in New York Times top 5 bestseller Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series involves the Knights of Malta, papal conclave, and lost documents that could change history. A deadly race for the Vatican’s oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s latest international Cotton Malone thriller. The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the 4th century and Constantine the Great. Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is at Lake Como, Italy, on the trail of legendary letters between Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini that disappeared in 1945 and could re-write history. But someone else seems to be after the same letters and, when Malone obtains then loses them, he’s plunged into a hunt that draws the attention of the legendary Knights of Malta. The knights have existed for over nine hundred years, the only warrior-monks to survive into modern times. Now they are a global humanitarian organization, but within their ranks lurks trouble — the Secreti — an ancient sect intent on affecting the coming papal conclave. With the help of Magellan Billet agent Luke Daniels, Malone races the rogue cardinal, the knights, the Secreti, and the clock to find what has been lost for centuries. The final confrontation culminates behind the walls of the Vatican where the election of the next pope hangs in the balance.