You want an as you call it “UNRUBBERIZED HISTORIES” - have the guts to read what many converts to Catholicism call - seminal reading.
As I put the challenge to Manfred the Wonder - read Eusibius’ History. It was written in the late third or early fourth century well before rubber came into common use.
But you will never do it. You will expose yourself to what has become garlic to the vampires.
Now I’m sure you will say it’s been rubberized - 1600 years ago. Fine.
But you can hardly criticize apostolic succession unless you have read his definitive - written over 1000 years before Luther.
But as I said you won’t do it - you may get Catholic Cooties.
Lurking’
Never’s a long time.
It’s not a raging priority. If convenient sometime, I might.
But he’s not the only valid source regarding such things—IF he is that, at all.
Given your pontifications, I’d gather he’s either wholesale sold out to the RC edifice or been cleansed and vetted.