Title: more history and more details needed!
Product review: The book is very sketchy with respect to details and the important history of the Catholic church and the middle ages. The author spends little ink on the history of the papacy during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. The "selection" of the pope during those tumultuous years was indeed a very different process compared to the section during the 19th and 20th centuries! The authior seems to concentrate and details the process during these later centuries and seems to gloss over the middle ages when the Catholic Church ruled not only the Vatican, but also the Governments of virtually all Europe. For a more accurate and detailed account of how the popes were "selected" during the middle ages (3 centuries), I would recommend Wm Manchester's history of the middle ages "A World Lit By Only Fire". This is an unbias account of the papacy during the middle ages and how it shaped the future of the Catholic Religion.
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