I’m a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So it was more or less mandatory for me to see the new movie “Conclave.”
Papal elections aren’t always as dramatic as ‘Conclave,’ but the history behind the process is, says historian
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