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.
Redefining Female Religious Life: French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism
1st Edition
By Laurence Lux-Sterritt
November 28, 2005
This short study offers a contribution to the flourishing debate on post-Reformation female piety. In an effort to avoid excessive polarization condemning conventual life as restrictive or hailing it as a privileged path towards spiritual perfection, it analyses the reasons which led early-modern ...
The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615)
1st Edition
By Eric Nelson
August 28, 2005
The first three decades of Bourbon rule in France coincided with a period of violent fragmentation followed by rapid renewal within the French Catholic community. In the early 1590s, when Henri IV - Protestant head of the Bourbon house - acceded to the throne, French Catholics were at war with each...
The Counter-Reformation: Catholic Europe and the Non-Christian World
2nd Edition
By Anthony D. Wright
June 09, 2005
Modern scholarship has effectively demonstrated that, far from being a knee-jerk reaction to the challenges of Protestantism, the Catholic Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was fuelled primarily by a desire within the Church to reform its medieval legacy and to re-enthuse its ...
The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture
1st Edition
By Sheryl E. Reiss, Kenneth Gouwens
May 16, 2005
The pontificate of Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici) is usually regarded as amongst the most disastrous in history, and the pontiff characterized as timid, vacillating, and avaricious. It was during his years as pope (1523-34) that England broke away from the Catholic Church, and relations with the ...
Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor: The Achievement of Friar Bartolomé Carranza
1st Edition
Edited
By John Edwards, Ronald Truman
March 28, 2005
In the history of the attempted restoration of Roman Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor, the contribution of her husband Philip and his Spanish entourage has been largely ignored. This book highlights one of the most prominent of Philip's religious advisers, the friar Bartolomé Carranza. A ...
A Paradise Inhabited by Devils: The Jesuits' Civilizing Mission in Early Modern Naples
1st Edition
By Jennifer D. Selwyn
September 28, 2004
In recent years much scholarly attention has been focused on the encounter of cultures during the early modern period, and the global implications that such encounters held. As a result of this work, scholars have now begun to re-evaluate many aspects of early culture contact, not least with ...