The Invention of Papal History - Onofrio Panvinio Between Renaissance and Catholic Reform

The Catholic Church is among the oldest, most secretive, institutions in the world, but in the sixteenth century a friar, Onofrio Panvinio, undertook ground-breaking investigations into the Church's history from Christ to the Renaissance. This study shows how his writings impacted on church and society, but also how he changed historical writing.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: 'The Clouds roar': Panvinio's Early Career


• 2: Between Church and Empire: Panvinio's Final Decade


• 3: Panvinio's History of Papal Elections


• 4: Church History, Censorship, and Confessionalization


• Epilogue


• Appendix


• Bibliography

About the author

Dr Stefan Bauer (PhD, Warburg Institute) is a Lecturer in Early Modern History at King's College London. He is an intellectual and cultural historian of early modern Europe; his research interests cover humanism, religious polemic, church history and censorship. In 2021, he was elected to the Council of the Royal Historical Society. He previously held academic positions at the Universities of Warwick and York, the German Historical Institute in Rome and the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trent.

His previous publications include A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's 'Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy' Reconsidered (OUP for the British Academy, 2022) and The Censorship and Fortuna of Platina's 'Lives of the Popes' in the Sixteenth Century (Brepols, 2007).

Summary

The Catholic Church is among the oldest, most secretive, institutions in the world, but in the sixteenth century a friar, Onofrio Panvinio, undertook ground-breaking investigations into the Church's history from Christ to the Renaissance. This study shows how his writings impacted on church and society, but also how he changed historical writing.

Additional text

This book succeeds in restoring to the foreground a figure of considerable importance within the development of Catholic historiography in early modern Italy, a field which the study convincingly argues was central in establishing the contours of different confessional positions during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...It is clearly an important book.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Bauer, Stefan (Lecturer in Early Modern History Bauer, Stefan (Lecturer in History Bauer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780198807001
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880700-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 223 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Historiography, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Historiography, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600