Publisher's Synopsis
This volume is not a history of Rome; nor of the Church of Rome, properly so called. It is concerned only with the influence exerted by the Roman See on the churches and states of other countries. The peculiarity of the papacy is, that of all people the Romans have had the least to do with it; it's subjects are gathered out of other peoples, and its yoke is nowhere less acceptable that in the city with whose name it overawe the world. This unique alltrio-episcopacy, is the subject of the following pages.
