Politics and Dynasty: Underaged Cardinals in the Catholic Church, 1420-1605

<p>Parallel with Rome becoming a European diplomatic centre, through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, European princes and Italian nobles sought to place their sons and the relatives of their advisors in the cardinalate in order to place a permanent representative at the papal court, gai...

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Main Author: Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Winchester University Press 2017-12-01
Series:Royal Studies Journal
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Online Access:https://rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/101