"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. The titles of the chapter
What makes a war "holy," and who decides that it is? God ofBattles examines the origins of holy war, and how it affectsthe modern world. Peter Partner shows how the ideal of the crusade,"God's War," c
Bound by religious vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the Knights Templar were a Military Crusading Order engaged in religious war in the Holy Land. At the end of the thirteenth century, after
