Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 - Pattenden, Miles (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford)

Miles Pattenden takes an analytic approach to the papal elections of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, with their ceremonial pomp and high drama, to understand the broader history of the early modern papacy and how this elite political group approached decision-making and problem-solving through four centuries of dramatic change in the Church.