Miles Pattenden, a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, is a historian of Early Modern Catholicism. He is the author of Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa: Nepotism and Papal Authority in Counter-Reformation Rome (OUP, 2013) and the co-editor of several volumes, including The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy (2015) and The Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (2020).

...the book represents a courageous attempt to provide a concise treatment of a topic that continues to arouse the passionate interest of international scholarship.

• 1: Introduction 2: The Pope and His Electors 3: Methods of Election 4: The Vacant See 5: Choosing Candidates 6: The New Pope 7: Papal Government Conclusion Bibliography

Miles Pattenden, a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, is a historian of Early Modern Catholicism. He is the author of Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa: Nepotism and Papal Authority in Counter-Reformation Rome (OUP, 2013) and the co-editor of several volumes, including The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy (2015) and The Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (2020).

...the book represents a courageous attempt to provide a concise treatment of a topic that continues to arouse the passionate interest of international scholarship.

• 1: Introduction 2: The Pope and His Electors 3: Methods of Election 4: The Vacant See 5: Choosing Candidates 6: The New Pope 7: Papal Government Conclusion Bibliography

Miles Pattenden, a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, is a historian of Early Modern Catholicism. He is the author of Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa: Nepotism and Papal Authority in Counter-Reformation Rome (OUP, 2013) and the co-editor of several volumes, including The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy (2015) and The Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (2020).

...the book represents a courageous attempt to provide a concise treatment of a topic that continues to arouse the passionate interest of international scholarship.

• 1: Introduction 2: The Pope and His Electors 3: Methods of Election 4: The Vacant See 5: Choosing Candidates 6: The New Pope 7: Papal Government Conclusion Bibliography