Description
| Product ID: | 9780750999540 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Breakspear |
| Subtitle: | The English Pope |
| Authors: | Author: R. A. J. Waddingham |
| Subjects: | Biography: religious and spiritual, Biography: religious & spiritual, History, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, England, Holy Roman Empire, c 1000 CE to c 1500 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The first biography in over a century of Adrian IV , the only English pope in the history of the Catholic Church In over 2,000 years of Christianity, there has been only one pope from England: Nicholas Breakspear. Breakspear was elected pope in 1154, but his story started long before that. The son of a local churchman near St Albans, he would battle his way across Europe to defend and develop Christianity, facing war in Scandinavia and the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula. But it was after he took the throne of St Peter as Adrian IV that he would face his greatest threat: Frederick Barbarossa, who was determined to restore the Holy Roman Empire to its former greatness. In Breakspear: The English Pope, R.A.J. Waddingham opens the archives to tell the story of a man who rose from humble beginnings to glorious power – and yet has been all but forgotten ever since. |
| Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-25 |