Church History

1. Ecclesiastical History — Eusebius of Caesarea: The first history of the Church, from the Apostles to Constantine.
2. The Founding of Christendom (History of Christendom vol. 1): Narrative history from a Catholic perspective, beginning with the Founding.
3. Religion and the Rise of Western Culture: How the Church made Europe.
4. The Stripping of the Altars: The vivid world of late-medieval English Catholicism and its destruction.
5. Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes — Eamon Duffy: The best one-volume history of the papacy.
6. The Path to Rome & Europe and the Faith: Belloc’s walk to Rome, and his thesis that “Europe is the Faith.”
7. Apologia Pro Vita Sua: The Oxford Movement from the inside.
8. Edmund Campion — Evelyn Waugh: Edmund Campion: the Elizabethan persecution told by a novelist.

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