Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation / Edition 1

by Robert Bireley

Overview

This text argues that early modern Catholicism, the period known more traditionally as the Counter Reformation, was both shaped by and an active response to the profound changes of the 16th century, including: the growth of the state; economic expansion; social dislocation; and the Reformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813209517
Publisher:	The Catholic University of America Press
Publication date:	08/28/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	231
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

ROBERT BIRELEY is Professor of History at Loyola University, Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface.- Introduction.- The New Religious Orders.- The Council of Trent and the Papacy.- The Church, the States and Religious Wars.- Evangelization and Popular Piety (Europe).- Education.- Evangelization Beyond Europe.- The Christian in the World.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

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From the Publisher

'In summary, this book transcends linguistic and cultural boundaries to synthesise extremely well the best of recent writing on the history of modern Catholicism (the bibliography provides the proof of this).' - Marc Venard, Revue d'Histoire de l'Eglise de France

'The emphasis throughout on the centrality of the lay piety is an excellent corrective to versions of confessionalization theory which remain too institutionally concerned with the state's direction of its subjects. Instead both casuistry and Jansenism are admirably apporached with a proper Jesuit sensitivity.' - A.D. Wright, Catholic Historical Review