The Pope's men [electronic resource] : the papal civil service in the Renaissance / Peter Partner.
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon, 1990Description: 1 online resource (xii, 276 p.).ISBN: 9780191678394 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Civil service -- Papal States -- History | Papal courts | Papacy -- History | Diplomatic and consular service, Papal States -- History | Renaissance -- Papal StatesAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198219958DDC classification: 320.94560903 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This study of the Papal bureaucracy, at a time when the Pope was a powerful European ruler and his officials included many brilliant humanist scholars, examines the patronage network through which the system was manipulated and the struggle for control of it among the great Italian families.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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This study of the Papal bureaucracy, at a time when the Pope was a powerful European ruler and his officials included many brilliant humanist scholars, examines the patronage network through which the system was manipulated and the struggle for control of it among the great Italian families.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.