Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
About the Book Series
Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700 addresses all varieties of religious behaviour extending beyond traditional institutional and doctrinal church history. It is interdisciplinary, comparative and global, as well as non-confessional. It understands religion, primarily of the 'Catholic' variety, as a broadly human phenomenon, rather than as a privileged mode of access to superhuman realms. Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700 will appeal to academics and students interested in the history of late medieval and early modern western Christianity in global context. The series embraces any and all expressions of traditional religion, books in it will take many approaches, among them literary history, art history, and the history of science, and above all, interdisciplinary combinations of them.
Fealty and Fidelity: The Lazarists of Bourbon France, 1660-1736
1st Edition
By Seán Alexander Smith
June 07, 2019
The career of the French saint Vincent de Paul has attracted the attention of hundreds of authors since his death in 1660, but the fate of his legacy - entrusted to the body of priests called the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) - remains vastly neglected. De Paul spent a lifetime working ...
The Pilgrims' Complaint: A Study of Popular Thought in the Early Tudor North
1st Edition
By Michael Bush
June 07, 2019
The Pilgrimage of Grace, a popular uprising in the north of England against Henry VIII's religious policies, has long been recognised as a crucial point in the fortunes of the English Reformation. Historians have long debated the motives of the rebels and what effects they had on government policy....
A Cloister on Trial: Religious Culture and Everyday Life in Late Medieval Hungary
1st Edition
By Gabriella Erdélyi
June 06, 2019
In 1517, the usually tranquil friary in the Hungarian town of Körmend found itself at the centre of controversy when its Augustinian friars, charged with drunkenness, sexual abuses and liturgical negligence, were driven out and replaced with observant Franciscans. The agent of change in this ...
Purgatory and Piety in Brittany 1480–1720
1st Edition
By Elizabeth C. Tingle
May 31, 2017
The concept of Purgatory was a central tenet of late-medieval and early-modern Catholicism, and proved a key dividing line between Catholics and Protestants. However, as this book makes clear, ideas about purgatory were often ill-defined and fluid, and altered over time in response to particular ...
Reforming Reformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas F. Mayer
May 25, 2017
The Reformation used to be singular: a unique event that happened within a tidily circumscribed period of time, in a tightly constrained area and largely because of a single individual. Few students of early modern Europe would now accept this view. Offering a broad overview of current scholarly ...
Jesuit Civil Wars: Theology, Politics and Government under Tirso González (1687-1705)
1st Edition
By Jean-Pascal Gay
May 24, 2017
Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus quickly established itself as one of the most dynamic, influential but divisive orders within early-modern Catholicism. Yet whilst the order's role in combating Protestantism, reforming the Catholic Church and advising rulers during its first century has been ...
Forbidden Prayer: Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy
1st Edition
By Giorgio Caravale
May 22, 2017
This book delineates the attempt, carried out by the Congregations of the Inquisition and the Index during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, to purge various devotional texts in the Italian vernacular of heterodox beliefs and superstitious elements, while imposing a rigid uniformity in ...
The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589–1597: Building the Faith of Saint Peter upon the King of Spain's Monarchy
1st Edition
By Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.
May 22, 2017
English Catholic voices, once disregarded as merely confessional, are now acknowledged to provide important perspectives on Elizabethan society. Based on extensive archival research, this book builds on previous studies for the first thorough investigation of the Jesuit mission to England during a ...
Church, State and Dynasty in Renaissance Poland: The Career of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon (1468–1503)
1st Edition
By Natalia Nowakowska
March 18, 2016
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the career of Fryderyk Jagiellon (1468-1503) arguably the most powerful churchman in medieval or early modern Central Europe. Royal prince, bishop of Kraków, Polish primate, cardinal, regent and brother to the rulers of Hungary, Poland, ...
The Church of Mary Tudor
1st Edition
Edited
By David Loades, Eamon Duffy
March 04, 2016
The reign of Queen Mary is popularly remembered largely for her re-introduction of Catholicism into England, and especially for the persecution of Protestants, memorably described in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments. Mary's brief reign has often been treated as an aberrant interruption of England's ...
Communities of Devotion: Religious Orders and Society in East Central Europe, 1450–1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Elaine Fulton, Maria Craciun
July 28, 2011
Between the later middle ages and the eighteenth century, religious orders were in the vanguard of reform movements within the Christian church. Recent scholarship on medieval Europe has emphasised how mendicants exercised a significant influence on the religiosity of the laity by actually shaping ...
Catholic Gentry in English Society: The Throckmortons of Coughton from Reformation to Emancipation
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Marshall, Geoffrey Scott
November 28, 2009
This volume advances scholarly understanding of English Catholicism in the early modern period through a series of interlocking essays on single family: the Throckmortons of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, whose experience over several centuries encapsulates key themes in the history of the Catholic ...