A review by zmb
Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes by Eamon Duffy

3.0

A solid history of the papacy. I thought the author started out a bit partisan, but he was certainly willing to be critical of the popes for whom we have good historical information, and especially of the reactionary Piuses. There's a definite focus on modern (post-French Revolution) popes, and kind of a weird glossing over between the Council of Trent and the Revolution, but that's where my knowledge of the papacy was at its weakest so it wasn't a bad thing to me.