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This collection of the writings of Leopold von Ranke was first published in 1973 and remains the leading collection of Ranke’s writings in the English language. Now updated with the needs of current students in mind, this edition includes previously untranslated materials, as well as a new introduction by Georg G. Iggers.
The stories of seven popes who ruled at seven different critical periods in the 600 years leading into the Reformation.
History of the Popes: Their Church and State in three volumes was first published in German in 1834-36, and translated into English by E. Fowler in 1901. Von Ranke described the papacy not only as a clerical institution, but also as a political power. Volume I recounts the history of the papacy from its inception to the sixteenth century.