Stefan Bauer Stefan Bauer is lecturer in history at King's College London and the author of The Invention of Papal History (Oxford University Press, 2020). By this Author Jul 23, 2022 Margaret Meserve's 'Papal Bull' details how the Renaissance church used print to spread viewsIn Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome, Margaret Meserve writes that the papacy had a "greater command of print and its possibilities than previously realized."