Popes and the Papacy: a history

Part 1: Lecture 1. What is Papal history? When did it begin?

Lecture 2. The rise of the Petrine idea

Lecture 3. Popes, Byzantines, and Barbarians

Lecture 4. The Popes in the Age of Charlemagne

Lecture 5. Rome, the Popes, and the Papal government

Lecture 6. The "Age of Iron"

Lecture 7. The Investiture controversy

Lecture 8. The Papal monarchy

Institutions

Lecture 9. The Papal Monarchy

Politics

Lecture 10. The Popes at Avignon

Lecture 11. The Great Schism

Lecture 12. The Renaissance Papcy

politics. Part 2: Lecture 13. The Renaissance Papacy

culture

Lecture 14. The challenge of Reform

Protestantism

Lecture 15. Catholic reform and counter reform

Lecture 16. Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution

Lecture 17. Piux IX

Prisoner of the Vatican

Lecture 18. The challenge of Modernism

Lecture 19. The troubled Pontificate of Pius XII

Lecture 20. The age of Vatican II

Lecture 21. The transitional Pontificate of Paul VI

Lecture. The Vatican and what it does

Lecture 23. John Paul II

"The Great"?

Lecture 24. Benedict XVI, the future, and the past.