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 is an intellectual and cultural historian of early modern Europe; his research interests cover humanism, religious polemic, church history and censorship. Dr Bauer is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Co-Editor of Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources. In 2021, he was elected to the Council of the Royal Historical Society.

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
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9780198880653
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888065-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; 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