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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 liturgical and devotional practices.

Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus quickly established itself as one of the most dynamic, influential but divisive orders within early-modern Catholicism. This book not only illuminates the role and theology of Gonzalez, but also the tensions within late seventeenth-century Catholicism.

An investigation of the Jesuit mission to England during a critical period between the unsuccessful armadas of 1588 and 1597, a period during which the mission was threatened as much by internal Catholic conflict as it was by the crown. It contextualizes the ambitions, methods and effects of the Jesuit mission.

Ferdinand III played a crucial role in helping to end the Thirty Years' War and in reestablishing Habsburg sovereignty within his hereditary lands. This title offers a case study in monarchical representation, for the war necessitated that he revise the image he had cultivated at the beginning of his reign, that of a powerful, victorious warrior.

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. This book states that ideas about purgatory were often ill-defined and fluid, and altered over time in response to particular needs or pressures.

The Pilgrimage of Grace, an uprising in the north of England against Henry VIII's religious policies, has been recognised as a crucial point in the fortunes of the English Reformation. This study examines evidence left by the Pilgrimage of Grace to reconstruct the social, political and religious attitudes of the society in the early Tudor period.

This volume brings together ten essays by Alexandra Walsham dealing with Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain. It revisits questions about the Catholic experience in England, Wales and Scotland.

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 thinking, this collection undertakes a fundamental rethinking of the many and varied meanings of the term concept and label ''reformation'', particularly with regard to the Catholic Church. Accepting the idea of the Reformation as a process or set of processes that cropped up just about anywhere Europeans might be found, the volume explores the consequences of this through an interdisciplinary approach, with contributions from literature, art history, theology and history. By examining a single topic from multiple interdisciplinary perspectives, the volume avoids inadvertently reinforcing disciplinary logic, a common result of the way knowledge has been institutionalized and compartmentalized in research universities over the last century. The result of this is a much more nuanced view of Catholic Reformation, and once that extends consideration much further - both chronologically, geographically and politically - than is often accepted. As such the volume will prove essential reading to anyone interested in early modern religious history.

The contributors to this volume propose that the years 1556-57 saw the Marian Counter Reformation in all its aspects reach its height, with a truly national coordination of both religious enforcement and religious persuasion. With intensifying persecution came intensifying religious reaction. The volume book looks at both from the detailed perspectives of eleven authors from different disciplines (English Literature, History, Divinity, and the History of the Book), dealing with specialised aspects of these issues.

This book traces the origins of Juan de Valdés¿ religious experience, and underlines the large influence of his teachings after his death all over Italy and beyond. Massimo Firpo reveals the originality of the Italian Reformation and its influence in the radicalism of religious exiles in Switzerland and Eastern Europe. The book will be welcomed by scholars wishing to further their understanding of Italian spiritual reform, and its effect upon the wider currents of the Reformation.

In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across Flanders and France with more than 4,000 women entering them over a 200 year period. In theory they were cut off from the outside world, however.

First published in the summer of 1557 - as the protestant martyrs' pyres blazed across England - Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey.

Franciscans in sixteenth-century New Spain were deeply ambivalent about their mission work. Fray Juan de Zumarraga, the first archbishop of Mexico, begged the king to find someone else to do his job so that he could go home. This discontent was widespread, grew stronger with time.

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 thinking.

Offering a study of the writing career of Robert Persons, leader of the Elizabethan Jesuits, seen as an apostolate as well as a polemical contestation, this book relates Persons' interventions in various controversies during the period 1580-1610 to the formative purposes of the "Christian Directory" (1582).

A study of interactions between Italy's religious reform and English reformations, which were notoriously liable to pick up other people's ideas and run. It casts light on our understanding of Marian reformation, led by Cardinal Reginald Pole, English by birth but once prominent among Italy's spirituali.

A collection of eleven interdisciplinary essays, which address the multifaceted nature of female religious identity in early modern Europe. It offers cross-cultural readings essential to a comprehensive understanding of the complexity of female spirituality in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

In this revised text, Anthony Wright presents a review of important trends in the historical understanding of the European Counter-Reformation.

Offers an analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order's shifting attitudes to confession and conscience. This study traces in these works a subtly shifting theology influenced by both theology and classical humanism.

In spite of an upsurge in interest in the social history of the Catholic community and an ever-growing body of literature on early modern 'superstition' and popular religion, the English Catholic community's response to the invisible world of the preternatural and supernatural has remained largely neglected. Addressing this oversight.

Covering a broad range of topics - encompassing legal, social, cultural, theological and political history - the volume asks fundamental questions about how we regard history, and what historians can learn from colleagues working in other fields that may not at first glance appear to offer any obvious links.

Exploring the complex relationship between western monasticism and lay society in east central Europe across a broad chronological timeframe, this title provides a re-examination of the level and nature of interaction between members of religious orders and the communities around them.

Examines the Catholic elaboration on the relationship between state and Church in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. This book presents elements which are crucial to understanding the problems at stake, from both a political and a religious point of view.

Royal Prince, Bishop of Krakow, Polish Primate, Cardinal, regent and brother to the rulers of Hungary, Poland, Bohemia and Lithuania, Fryderyk Jagiellon (1468-1503) was a pivotal figure in three Polish royal governments. This book provides an analysis of the career of Fryderyk, arguably the most powerful churchman in early modern Central Europe.

Explores Catholic theology and spirituality according to the religious literature printed during the reign of Mary Tudor (1553-1558). After considering the historiography of Mary Tudor's reign, this book contextualises these writings through a brief history of the Marian church and a discussion of the authors and dedicatees.

Contains papers on the activity and intellectual character of the English Church under Mary, on Carranza's eventful life, particularly his activity in England, and on his often close collaboration with his friend Cardinal Reginald Pole, set in the wider context of sixteenth-century Catholicism.