E. R. Chamberlin

The Bad Popes is a 1969 book by E. R. Chamberlin documenting the lives of eight of the most controversial popes: Pope Stephen VI, who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber. Pope John XII, who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was …