Barraclough, Geoffrey, — The Medieval Papacy.

NY, Harcourt Brace World, (1970). Reprint. VG PB. Barraclough treats the medieval papacy as a historical phenomenon developing and changing in response to changing. historical circumstances. He shows how its success in authority, legal & administrative machinery build up mitigated against its claim to spiritual leadership & how an institution rising through furthering the cause of reform later became an obstacle to reform & itself in need of reformation. Based on extensive reserach in the Vatican Archives & other major manufscript libraries. Sl edge wear.