Popes, Cardinals and War ‘Cursed Be He That Keepeth Back His Sword from Blood.’ Jeremiah, XLVIII, 10
Popes, Cardinals and War ‘Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.’ Jeremiah, XLVIII, 10 ‘Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear.’ John, XVIII, 10 ‘“Oho!” said Stalin [to Pierre Laval in Moscow, May 1935]. “The Pope? How many divisions has he got?”’ Joseph Stalin, 1935, quoted by Winston Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1: The Gathering Storm (London, 1949), p.121 Popes, Cardinals and War THE MILITARY CHURCH IN RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE D.S. Chambers Published in 2006 by I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright © D.S. Chambers, 2006 The right of D.S. to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN 10: 1 84511 178 8 ISBN 13: 978 1 84511 178 6 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress catalog card: available Typeset
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