This five-volume work by Mandell Creighton (1843-1901) was first published between 1882 and 1894. Volume 1 (1882) describes the developments within the Catholic

The Catholic Church is among the oldest, most secretive, institutions in the world, but in the sixteenth century a friar, Onofrio Panvinio, undertook ground-bre

Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.