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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 |
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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 | : 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 | : 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 |
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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 | : Eric Russell Chamberlin |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780880291163 |
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The stories of seven popes who ruled at seven different critical periods in the 600 years leading into the Reformation.
Author | : Eleanor Herman |
Publisher | : Crux Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-05-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1909979651 |
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Author | : Sara Poole |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781429979184 |
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Before the Tudors, there were the Borgias. More passionate. More dangerous. More deadly. From the author of Poison, called "stunning"* and "a fascinating page-turner," comes a new historical thriller, featuring the same intriguing and beautiful heroine: Borgia court poisoner, Francesca Giordano. In the summer of 1493, Rodrigo Borgia, Alexander VI, has been pope for almost a year. Having played a crucial role in helping him ascend the chair of Saint Peter, Francesca, haunted by the shadows of her own past, is now charged with keeping him there. As court poisoner to the most notorious and dangerous family in Italy, this mistress of death faces a web of peril, intrigue, and deceit that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance. As dangers close in from every direction, Francesca conceives a desperate plan that puts her own life at risk and hurls her into a nightmare confrontation with a madman intent on destroying all she is pledged to protect. From the hidden crypts of fifteenth-century Rome to its teeming streets alive with sensuality, obsession, and treachery, Francesca must battle the demons of her own dark nature to unravel a plot to destroy the Borgias, seize control of Christendom, and plunge the world into eternal darkness. *Booklist +Lauren Willig
Author | : Giuseppe Portigliotti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1928 |
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ISBN | : |
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