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E. R. Chamberlin.
The Bad Popes.
Published London: The History Book Club, 1969 (reprints the Hamish Hamilton edn.)
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; coloured tops; published without a printed dustjacket.
Printed in the UK by Ebenezer Baylis & Son, The Trinity Press.
Size: 160x240x30mm.
Page count: 310pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: cellophane dustwrapper rather ragged at the edges; some fading and wear to the boards and spine; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £8.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 722g.

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Contents:Golden city; Marozia, Senatrix of Rome (926-932); Octavian, Pope John XII (955-963); Theophylact, Pope Benedict IX (1032-46); Benedict Gaetani, Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303); Bartolomeo Prignano, Pope Urban VI (1378-89); Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503); Giovanni de’ Medici, Pope Leo X (1513-21); Giulio de’ Medici, Pope Clement VII (123-34).
Appendix: The sources.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: a frontispiece and 16 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: 3
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 6pp
Index: yes

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