A generation after the event that came to be known as Vatican II Orbis Books is pleased to join with Peters of Belgium to make this monumental new work available to scholars worldwide. Already acclaimed as a publishing event in itself, History of Vatican II provides historians, ecclesiologist, and theologians alike with a thorough exposition of one of the most momentous occasions in 2,000 years of church history. History of Vatican II is the first critical study of the council which treats it as an historical event. In five extraordinary volumes that explore the preparation and each session, History of Vatican II places the Council in its development and denouement to contemporary church and world concerns.