You may want to see,
http://www.christiantruth.com/articles/vaticanIanddevelopment.html
http://reformation500.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/historical-literature-on-the-earliest-papacy/
http://thulcandra.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/klaus-schatz-on-priesthood-canon-and-the-development-of-doctrine/
Thank you for the links, I’ve been rather slow in reading them.