CHRISTOPHER F. BLACK is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Glasgow, UK.

'Black offers a thoughtful summary of the principal issues facing the post-Tridentine Italian Church...a helpful resource for student and teacher alike'. - Clare Ashdowne, Ecclesiastical History

• List of MapsPrefaceAcknowledgementsReligious Crises and Challenges in Early Sixteenth-Century ItalyThe Council of Trent and Bases for Continuing ReformCentre and Peripheries: The Papacy, Congregations, Religious OrdersEpiscopal LeadershipParish Priests and ParishionersReligious EducationConfraternities, Hospitals and PhilanthropyNunneries and Religious WomenRepression and ControlChurches, Cultural Enticement and DisplayConclusion: Successes and FailuresPopes in Early Modern EuropeAppendix: The Italian BishopricsA Brief Reading GuideBibliographyIndex.

CHRISTOPHER F. BLACK is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Glasgow, UK.

'Black offers a thoughtful summary of the principal issues facing the post-Tridentine Italian Church...a helpful resource for student and teacher alike'. - Clare Ashdowne, Ecclesiastical History

• List of MapsPrefaceAcknowledgementsReligious Crises and Challenges in Early Sixteenth-Century ItalyThe Council of Trent and Bases for Continuing ReformCentre and Peripheries: The Papacy, Congregations, Religious OrdersEpiscopal LeadershipParish Priests and ParishionersReligious EducationConfraternities, Hospitals and PhilanthropyNunneries and Religious WomenRepression and ControlChurches, Cultural Enticement and DisplayConclusion: Successes and FailuresPopes in Early Modern EuropeAppendix: The Italian BishopricsA Brief Reading GuideBibliographyIndex.

CHRISTOPHER F. BLACK is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Glasgow, UK.

'Black offers a thoughtful summary of the principal issues facing the post-Tridentine Italian Church...a helpful resource for student and teacher alike'. - Clare Ashdowne, Ecclesiastical History

• List of MapsPrefaceAcknowledgementsReligious Crises and Challenges in Early Sixteenth-Century ItalyThe Council of Trent and Bases for Continuing ReformCentre and Peripheries: The Papacy, Congregations, Religious OrdersEpiscopal LeadershipParish Priests and ParishionersReligious EducationConfraternities, Hospitals and PhilanthropyNunneries and Religious WomenRepression and ControlChurches, Cultural Enticement and DisplayConclusion: Successes and FailuresPopes in Early Modern EuropeAppendix: The Italian BishopricsA Brief Reading GuideBibliographyIndex.