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Article: Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2008
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David S. Chambers. Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe.
London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2006. xxii + 234 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $55. ISBN: 978-1-84511-178-6.
Few scholars possess as intimate a knowledge of the careers and worldly ambitions of Renaissance ecclesiastics as D. S. Chambers. In monographs and countless articles spanning four decades, Chambers has studied their family histories, their education and office-holding, their politicking and patronage. In this latest volume the fruits of those long labors have been enlisted for the purpose of examining the most worldly of their activities: ...