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Zusatztext The book's central aim is the analysis and comparison of the dynamics between the Roman centre and the diverse Catholic communities on its peripheries. It succeeds spectacularly not only in showing the discrepancies between the Tridentine ideal and the situation in these localities but also how contingent on local circumstances the success of the reforming programme was ... provides a meticulous exposition of the extremely variegated dynamics Informationen zum Autor Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin is currently Head of School of History at University College Dublin. He completed his PhD at the European University Institute at Florence in 1995. He has published widely in journals such as English Historical Review, History Compass, Shiso, Revue Historique, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy and in numerous edited collections. He was the joint Principal Investigator on the Irish Research Council Thematic Grants projectInsular Christianity. His research interests are primarily in the field of Early Modern religious history. Catholic Europe, 1592-1648: Centre and Peripheries is his second monograph with Oxford University Press. Klappentext Examines the processes of Catholic renewal in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing primarily on a series of societies on the European periphery and how Catholicism adapted to very different conditions in areas such as Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, East-Central Europe, and the Balkans. Zusammenfassung Examines the processes of Catholic renewal in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing primarily on a series of societies on the European periphery and how Catholicism adapted to very different conditions in areas such as Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, East-Central Europe, and the Balkans.
