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Critical praise for COMPLETE MONARCHS“Absolute Monarchs sprawls across Europe and the Levant, over two millenniums, and by having an impossibly enormous throw: 265 popes, feral millions of Vandals, Huns and Visigoths, expansionist emperors, Byzantine intriguers, Borgias and Medicis, heretic zealots, conspiring clerics, bestial inquisitors and more. Norwich handles to create a rollicking story and arrange this stage. He keeps things going at almost seaside-study pace.”—Bill Keller, Ny Times Book Review, Protect review “Renowned historian Norwich provides a rollicking account of the men who kept the papal office, their disadvantages and their benefits, and the effect of the papacy on earth record. He performs us genuinely on the visit of the lives of the popes from Peter to Benedict XVI.