Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Cathedra Petri: A Political History of the Great Latin Patriarchate
Three years have passed away since the publication of the Fourth Volume of this Work.
A Fifth is now presented to the public, bringing down the history of the Papacy to an epoch at which it may properly be said to have attained to its greatest development both in respect of territorial expansion and political in?uence. The present Volume closes with the death of Innocent III. A pontiff whose name stands foremost in the annals of the sacerdotal empire of Rome.
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