Church, Empire and World

John M. Headley, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA

'This volume is a solid collection of good research and writing, important for European specialists because of its insistence on global understanding.' Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook, No. 19

• Contents: Thomas More and Luther’s revolt; Luther and the problem of secularization; The Reformation as crisis in the understanding of tradition; ’Ehe Türckish als Bèpstisch’: Lutheran reflections on the problem of empire, 1623-28; The Habsburg world empire and the revivalof Ghibellinism; Germany, the empire and Monarchia in the thought and policy of Gattinara; Gattinara, Erasmus, and the imperial configurations of humanism; The Catholic/Counter Reformation reconsidered; Borromean reform in the empire? La Strada Rigorosa of Giovanni Francesco Bonomi; On reconstructing the citizenry: Campanella’s criticism of Aristotle’s Politics; Campanella, America and world evangelization; Spain’s Asian presence, 1565-1590: structures and aspirations; The 16th-century Venetian celebration of the earth’s total habitability: the issue of the fully habitable world for Renaissance Europe; Review article: the burden of European imperialisms, 1500-1800; Index.