Religion and Politics in the Age of the Counterreformation
Title | Religion and Politics in the Age of the Counterreformation PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Bireley, S.J. |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2012-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469610051 |
Confirming what historians have long suspected--that the influence of a court confessor could be crucial for the formation of policy--Bireley explores the relationship between Ferdinand and Lamormaini during the Thirty Years War. The author shows how Lamormaini planned for the restoration of Catholicism in Germany and documents in detail his influence on Ferdinand, his conflict with Ferdinand's first minister, and his relationships with other important figures in Vienna and Rome. Originally published in 1981. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700
Title | The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Bireley |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813209517 |
Placing the development of Catholicism in the context of both social and political changes as well as the Protestant Reformation, this comprehensive study incorporates new research and reflects the changing perspectives of the late 20th century.
Martin Luther's 95 Theses
Title | Martin Luther's 95 Theses PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Luther |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2015-01-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781603866705 |
An unabridged, unaltered edition of the Disputation on the Power & Efficacy of Indulgences Commonly Known as The 95 Theses
Trent and All That
Title | Trent and All That PDF eBook |
Author | John W. O'Malley |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2009-06-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780674041684 |
Counter Reformation, Catholic Reformation, the Baroque Age, the Tridentine Age, the Confessional Age: why does Catholicism in the early modern era go by so many names? And what political situations, what religious and cultural prejudices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave rise to this confusion? Taking up these questions, John O'Malley works out a remarkable guide to the intellectual and historical developments behind the concepts of Catholic reform, the Counter Reformation, and, in his felicitous term, Early Modern Catholicism. The result is the single best overview of scholarship on Catholicism in early modern Europe, delivered in a pithy, lucid, and entertaining style. Although its subject is fundamental to virtually all other issues relating to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, there is no other book like this in any language. More than a historiographical review, Trent and All That makes a compelling case for subsuming the present confusion of terminology under the concept of Early Modern Catholicism. The term indicates clearly what this book so eloquently demonstrates: that Early Modern Catholicism was an aspect of early modern history, which it strongly influenced and by which it was itself in large measure determined. As a reviewer commented, O'Malley's discussion of terminology opens up a different way of conceiving of the whole history of Catholicism between the Reformation and the French Revolution.
Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation
Title | Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Shannon McHugh |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2020-09-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1644531895 |
The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular. The thirteen essays of Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation present a radical reconsideration of literary production in post-Tridentine Italy. With particular attention to the much-maligned tradition of spiritual literature, the volume’s contributors weave literary analysis together with religion, theater, art, music, science, and gender to demonstrate that the literature of this period not only merits study but is positively innovative. Contributors include such renowned critics as Virginia Cox and Amadeo Quondam, two of the leading scholars on the Italian Counter-Reformation. Distributed for UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS
The Counter Reformation
Title | The Counter Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin R. O'Connell |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780061318252 |
A competent Catholic scholar carries on an objective study of the determined efforts of the Catholic Church to reform itself, to stem the advances of Protestantism, and if possible to recover the lands lost to heresy in the earlier 16th century.
The Counter-Reformation Prince
Title | The Counter-Reformation Prince PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Bireley, S.J. |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2018-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469606461 |
Bireley explores the anti-Machavellian tradition of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and the writers who cultivated it, including Giovanni Botero and Justus Lipsius. The tradition produced an international political literature that is immensely important for understanding the Counter-Reformation, Baroque culture, and early modern politics and diplomacy. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.