William Francis Barry (1849–1930)

The Papacy was little more than the bishopric of the City of Rome. but since the creation of the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy, people with literacy, and a moderately widely spread communication network were at a premium in the eyes of the government. Barry follows the temporal growth of this small department of the Byzantine province of Italy to the tremendous prestige of the later medieval entity and how this was used to expand the actual physical territory of the church. It is a basic guide and still valuable.… (mehr)