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Justice Blindfolded
The Historical Course of an Image
Inbunden, 2018
1883 kr
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Justice Blindfolded gives an overview of the history of “justice” and its iconography through the centuries. Justice has been portrayed as a woman with scales, or holding a sword, or, since the fifteenth century, with her eyes bandaged. This last symbol contains the idea that justice is both …
Clerical Celibacy in the West: c.1100-1700
Av Helen Parish
Häftad, 2020
707 kr
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The debate over clerical celibacy and marriage had its origins in the early Christian centuries, and is still very much alive in the modern church. The content and form of controversy have remained remarkably consistent, but each era has selected and shaped the sources that underpin its narrative, …
Pontificate of Clement VII
History, Politics, Culture
Av Sheryl E. Reiss, Kenneth Gouwens
Inbunden, 2005
3168 kr
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The pontificate of Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici) is usually regarded as amongst the most disastrous in history, and the pontiff characterized as timid, vacillating, and avaricious. It was during his years as pope (1523-34) that England broke away from the Catholic Church, and relations with the …
Church of Mary Tudor
Inbunden, 2006
3168 kr
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The reign of Queen Mary is popularly remembered largely for her re-introduction of Catholicism into England, and especially for the persecution of Protestants, memorably described in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments. Mary's brief reign has often been treated as an aberrant interruption of England's …
Redefining Female Religious Life
French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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This short study offers a contribution to the flourishing debate on post-Reformation female piety. In an effort to avoid excessive polarization condemning conventual life as restrictive or hailing it as a privileged path towards spiritual perfection, it analyses the reasons which led early-modern …
Jesuits and the Monarchy
Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615)
Av Eric Nelson
Inbunden, 2005
968 kr
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The first three decades of Bourbon rule in France coincided with a period of violent fragmentation followed by rapid renewal within the French Catholic community. In the early 1590s, when Henri IV - Protestant head of the Bourbon house - acceded to the throne, French Catholics were at war with each …
Clerical Celibacy in the West: c.1100-1700
Av Helen Parish
Inbunden, 2010
3168 kr
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The debate over clerical celibacy and marriage had its origins in the early Christian centuries, and is still very much alive in the modern church. The content and form of controversy have remained remarkably consistent, but each era has selected and shaped the sources that underpin its narrative, …
Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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The Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1535-1624) is one of the most misunderstood authors in the history of political thought. His treatise De rege et regis institutione libri tres (1599) is dedicated to Philip III of Spain. It was to present the principles of statecraft by which the young king was to abide. …
Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation
Inbunden, 2008
2904 kr
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Vittoria Colonna was one of the best known and most highly celebrated female poets of the Italian Renaissance. Her work went through many editions during her lifetime, and she was widely considered by her contemporaries to be highly skilled in the art of constructing tightly controlled and …
Counter-Reformation
Catholic Europe and the Non-Christian World
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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Modern scholarship has effectively demonstrated that, far from being a knee-jerk reaction to the challenges of Protestantism, the Catholic Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was fuelled primarily by a desire within the Church to reform its medieval legacy and to re-enthuse its …
Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor
The Achievement of Friar Bartolomé Carranza
Av Ronald Truman, John Edwards
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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In the history of the attempted restoration of Roman Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor, the contribution of her husband Philip and his Spanish entourage has been largely ignored. This book highlights one of the most prominent of Philip's religious advisers, the friar Bartolomé Carranza. A …
Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe
An Interdisciplinary View
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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This volume of twelve interdisciplinary essays addresses the multifaceted nature of female religious identity in early modern Europe. By dismantling the boundaries between the academic disciplines of history, art history, musicology and literary studies it offers new cross-cultural readings …
Theology and Spirituality of Mary Tudor's Church
Inbunden, 2006
2525 kr
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Few areas of early modern English history have roused such passions and interpretations as the rule of Mary Tudor and her efforts to return the country to Catholicism following the reigns of her father and brother. In this book, Dr Wizeman explores Catholic theology and spirituality according to …
Heresy in Transition
Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Av John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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The concept of heresy is deeply rooted in Christian European culture. The palpable increase in incidences of heresy in the Middle Ages may be said to directly relate to the Christianity's attempts to define orthodoxy and establish conformity at its centre, resulting in the sometimes forceful …
Italian Reform and English Reformations, c.1535–c.1585
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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This is the first full-scale study of interactions between Italy's religious reform and English reformations, which were notoriously liable to pick up other people's ideas. The book is of fundamental importance for those whose work includes revisionist themes of ambiguity, opportunism and …
Ambrosius Catharinus
Polemic and the Politics of Religion in Italy, 1541-1553
Inbunden, 2024
1853 kr
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Though by 1520, the Lutheran revolt had transformed the long-standing problem of reforming the Church into a major crisis, there was no serious reform initiative from the papacy before 1536. The debate about what was wrong and what was to be done about it had however been under way from the early …
Church, State and Dynasty in Renaissance Poland
The Career of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon (1468–1503)
Inbunden, 2007
3168 kr
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This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the career of Fryderyk Jagiellon (1468-1503) arguably the most powerful churchman in medieval or early modern Central Europe. Royal prince, bishop of Kraków, Polish primate, cardinal, regent and brother to the rulers of Hungary, Poland, …
Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain
Inbunden, 2014
2525 kr
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The survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communities of these Protestant kingdoms during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rejecting an …
Law and Conscience
Catholicism in Early Modern England, 1570–1625
Inbunden, 2007
3168 kr
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This book examines the Catholic elaboration on the relationship between state and Church in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Among the several factors which have contributed to the complex process of state-formation in early modern Europe, religious affiliation has certainly been one of the …
Thomas White and the Blackloists
Between Politics and Theology during the English Civil War
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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This is the first book-length study of the political and theological views of Thomas White (alias Blacklo) and his followers the Blackloists. It both complements and opens up new lines of inquiry in the context of the current scholarship in two main areas. On the one hand, historians of early …
Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England
Robert Persons's Jesuit Polemic, 1580–1610
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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During his lifetime, the Jesuit priest Robert Persons (1546-1610) was arguably the leading figure fighting for the re-establishment of Catholicism in England. Whilst his colleague Edmund Campion may now be better known it was Persons's tireless efforts that kept the Jesuit mission alive during the …
Catholic Renewal and Protestant Resistance in Marian England
Av Vivienne Westbrook, Elizabeth Evenden
Inbunden, 2015
2525 kr
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Mary Tudor's reign is regarded as a period where, within a short space of time, an early modern European state attempted to reverse the religious policy of preceding governments. This required the use of persuasion and coercion, of propaganda and censorship, as well as the controversial decision to …
Saint Cicero and the Jesuits
The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism
Inbunden, 2008
2759 kr
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In this commanding study, Dr Maryks offers a detailed analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order's shifting attitudes to confession and conscience. Drawing on his census of Jesuit penitential literature published between 1554 and 1650, he traces in these works a …
Communities of Devotion
Religious Orders and Society in East Central Europe, 1450–1800
Av Maria Craciun, Elaine Fulton
Inbunden, 2011
2525 kr
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Between the later middle ages and the eighteenth century, religious orders were in the vanguard of reform movements within the Christian church. Recent scholarship on medieval Europe has emphasised how mendicants exercised a significant influence on the religiosity of the laity by actually shaping …
Catholic Gentry in English Society
The Throckmortons of Coughton from Reformation to Emancipation
Av Geoffrey Scott, Peter Marshall
Inbunden, 2009
3168 kr
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This volume advances scholarly understanding of English Catholicism in the early modern period through a series of interlocking essays on single family: the Throckmortons of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, whose experience over several centuries encapsulates key themes in the history of the Catholic …
Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Av Matthew Treherne, Abigail Brundin
Inbunden, 2009
2600 kr
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The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous religious change in Italy as in Europe as a whole, a period when movements for both reform and counter-reform reflected and affected shifting religious sensibilities. Cinquecento culture was profoundly shaped by these religious currents, from the …
Fathers and Godfathers
Spiritual Kinship in Early-Modern Italy
Av Guido Alfani
Inbunden, 2009
2525 kr
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In medieval Europe baptism did not merely represent a solemn and public recognition of the 'natural' birth of a child, but was regarded as a second, 'spiritual birth', within a social group often different from the child's blood relations: a spiritual family, composed of godfathers and godmothers. …
Pilgrims' Complaint
A Study of Popular Thought in the Early Tudor North
Av Michael Bush
Inbunden, 2009
2525 kr
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The Pilgrimage of Grace, a popular uprising in the north of England against Henry VIII's religious policies, has long been recognised as a crucial point in the fortunes of the English Reformation. Historians have long debated the motives of the rebels and what effects they had on government policy. …
Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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The survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communities of these Protestant kingdoms during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rejecting an …
Catholic Renewal and Protestant Resistance in Marian England
Av Vivienne Westbrook, Elizabeth Evenden
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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Mary Tudor's reign is regarded as a period where, within a short space of time, an early modern European state attempted to reverse the religious policy of preceding governments. This required the use of persuasion and coercion, of propaganda and censorship, as well as the controversial decision to …
