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.
Fathers and Godfathers: Spiritual Kinship in Early-Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Guido Alfani
August 28, 2009
In medieval Europe baptism did not merely represent a solemn and public recognition of the 'natural' birth of a child, but was regarded as a second, 'spiritual birth', within a social group often different from the child's blood relations: a spiritual family, composed of godfathers and godmothers. ...
Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy
1st Edition
By Matthew Treherne, Abigail Brundin
July 28, 2009
The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous religious change in Italy as in Europe as a whole, a period when movements for both reform and counter-reform reflected and affected shifting religious sensibilities. Cinquecento culture was profoundly shaped by these religious currents, from the ...
Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe: An Interdisciplinary View
1st Edition
Edited
By Cordula van Wyhe
November 28, 2008
This volume of twelve interdisciplinary essays addresses the multifaceted nature of female religious identity in early modern Europe. By dismantling the boundaries between the academic disciplines of history, art history, musicology and literary studies it offers new cross-cultural readings ...
Italian Reform and English Reformations, c.1535–c.1585
1st Edition
By M. Anne Overell
November 27, 2008
This is the first full-scale study of interactions between Italy's religious reform and English reformations, which were notoriously liable to pick up other people's ideas. The book is of fundamental importance for those whose work includes revisionist themes of ambiguity, opportunism and ...
Thomas White and the Blackloists: Between Politics and Theology during the English Civil War
1st Edition
By Stefania Tutino
November 13, 2008
This is the first book-length study of the political and theological views of Thomas White (alias Blacklo) and his followers the Blackloists. It both complements and opens up new lines of inquiry in the context of the current scholarship in two main areas. On the one hand, historians of early ...
Saint Cicero and the Jesuits: The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism
1st Edition
By Robert Aleksander Maryks
August 14, 2008
In this commanding study, Dr Maryks offers a detailed analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order's shifting attitudes to confession and conscience. Drawing on his census of Jesuit penitential literature published between 1554 and 1650, he traces in these works a ...
Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation
1st Edition
By Abigail Brundin
May 21, 2008
Vittoria Colonna was one of the best known and most highly celebrated female poets of the Italian Renaissance. Her work went through many editions during her lifetime, and she was widely considered by her contemporaries to be highly skilled in the art of constructing tightly controlled and ...
Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England: Robert Persons's Jesuit Polemic, 1580–1610
1st Edition
By Victor Houliston
September 28, 2007
During his lifetime, the Jesuit priest Robert Persons (1546-1610) was arguably the leading figure fighting for the re-establishment of Catholicism in England. Whilst his colleague Edmund Campion may now be better known it was Persons's tireless efforts that kept the Jesuit mission alive during the ...
Law and Conscience: Catholicism in Early Modern England, 1570–1625
1st Edition
By Stefania Tutino
September 28, 2007
This book examines the Catholic elaboration on the relationship between state and Church in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Among the several factors which have contributed to the complex process of state-formation in early modern Europe, religious affiliation has certainly been one of the ...
Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought
1st Edition
By Harald E. Braun
June 06, 2007
The Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1535-1624) is one of the most misunderstood authors in the history of political thought. His treatise De rege et regis institutione libri tres (1599) is dedicated to Philip III of Spain. It was to present the principles of statecraft by which the young king was to abide....
The Theology and Spirituality of Mary Tudor's Church
1st Edition
By William Wizeman
May 28, 2006
Few areas of early modern English history have roused such passions and interpretations as the rule of Mary Tudor and her efforts to return the country to Catholicism following the reigns of her father and brother. In this book, Dr Wizeman explores Catholic theology and spirituality according to ...
Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman
November 28, 2005
The concept of heresy is deeply rooted in Christian European culture. The palpable increase in incidences of heresy in the Middle Ages may be said to directly relate to the Christianity's attempts to define orthodoxy and establish conformity at its centre, resulting in the sometimes forceful ...