The Counter-Reformation: The Essential Readings / Edition 1

by David Luebke

Overview

This book comprises ten key articles on the Counter-Reformation, introduced and contextualized for the student reader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631211044
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/29/1999
Series:	Blackwell Essential Readings in History
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

David Martin Luebke is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oregon, where he teaches on the history of Germany and early modern Europe. He is author of His Majesty's Rebels: Communities, Factions, and Rural Revolt in the Black Forest, 1725-1745 (1997) and many articles on popular politics and religion in early modern Germany.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

Editor's Introduction.

Part I: Definitions: .

1. Catholic Reformation or Counter-Reformation?: Hubert Judin.

2. Counter-Reformation Spirituality: H. Outram Evennett.

3. Was Ignatius Loyola a Church Reformer? How to Look at Early Modern Catholicism: John W. O'Malley.

Part II: Outcomes:.

4. The Counter-Reformation and the People of Catholic Europe: John Bossy.

5. Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and the Early Modern State: A Reassessment: Wolfgang Reinhard.

6. How to Become a Counter-Reformation Saint: Peter Burke.

7. Little Women: Counter-Reformation Misogyny: Alison Weber.

8. The Thirty Years' War and the Failure of Catholicization: Marc R. Forster.

9. 'The Heart Has Its Reasons': Predicaments of Missionary Christianity in Early Colonial Peru: Sabine MacCormack.

Index.