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"Peter Partner is an established scholar, qualified by his research on The Papal State Under Martin Vand The Lands of St. Peterto write this general book on Renaissance Rome.
Above all, this book examines the fear that Islamic fundamentalism excites in the west and warns against allowing crusading war propaganda to affect our judgment today. 24 illustrations. Maps.
An evocative study of the history of Christianity which tells the story of a religion that has inspired devotion and conflict and formed the framework for our political, cultural, scientific and social history for two millennia.
In due course they became the focus of numerous beliefs based on their supposed occult powers, and by the eighteenth century the influence of the Templar myth was felt not only in the fantasies of occultists but even in the Gothic novel, ...
Based on extensive research in Italian archives, The Pope's Men explores the bureaucracy of one of the most powerful states in early modern Europem, and its ruling elite who included luminaries of humanist literature and scholarship.
Chronicles the history of Christianity from the Middle Ages, through the rupture of the church in the Reformation, to the modern world.