Peter Partner

Peter Partner's books include Arab Voices and The Pope's Men: The Papal Service in the Renaissance. His new book, God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam, has been published in the United Kingdom. (February 1998)

From the Review

February 5, 1998: The Dangers of Divinity

The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem by Oleg Grabar

June 22, 1995: The Rebirth of Beirut

April 25, 1991: In Saddam's Arms

The Monument: Art, Vulgarity and Responsibility in Iraq by Samir al-Khalil

Culture, History and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq, 1968–89 by Amatzia Baram

July 19, 1990: In a Fratricidal Country

Tribes with Flags: A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East by Charles Glass

December 8, 1988: Lost Worlds

Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment by Eugene Victor Walter

The Architecture of Exile by Stanley Tigerman

The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World by Joseph Rykwert

April 10, 1986: Marianne into Battle

Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form by Marina Warner

Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture by Margaret R. Miles

December 5, 1985: On the Town

Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard

June 2, 1983: Translation (letter)

March 31, 1983: The Roman Spring of Clement VII

The Sack of Rome, 1527 by André Chastel, translated by Beth Archer

May 27, 1982: Death of Venice

A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich

May 14, 1981: Born Again?

Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308 by Richard Krautheimer

Books by Peter Partner

Two Thousand Years (1999)
God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam (1998)
God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam (1997)
The Pope's Men: The Papal Civil Service in the Renaissance (1990)
Arab Voices: The Bbc Arabic Service, 1938-1988 (1988)
The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and Their Myth (1987)
Den Anderen Verlieren - Sich Selbst Finden: Trennung Und Scheidung Als Hance Fur Beide (1985)
The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and Their Myth (1982)
Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559: A Portrait of a Society (1976)
The Lands of St. Peter; The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance (1972)
The Lands of St Peter; The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance (1972)