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The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation presents a comprehensive examination of recent scholarship on early modern Catholicism in its many guises. It examines how the Tridentine reforms inspired conflict and conversion, and evaluates lives and identities, spirituality, culture and religious change. This wide-ranging and original r
List of contents
Introduction; I: Conflict, Coexistence and Conversion; 1: Tridentine Catholicism; 2: Confessionalization; 3: Religious Coexistence; 4: The Exile Experience; 5: The Inquisition; 6: Catholic Pamphleteering; 7: Catholic Missions to Asia; 8: Catholic Missions to the Americas; II: Catholic Lives and Devotional Identities; 9: Being a Catholic in Early Modern Europe; 10: The Catholic Life Cycle; 11: The Sacred Landscape; 12: Sanctity; 13: The Counter-Reformation of the Senses; 14: Lay Spirituality; 15: Catholic Piety and Community; III: Ideas and Cultural Practices; 16: Intellectual Culture; 17: Science and the Counter-Reformation; 18: Music and the Counter-Reformation; 19: Counter-Reformation Drama; 20: Art and the Counter-Reformation; 21: Material Culture; IV: Religious Change; 22: Catholic Reformations: A Medieval Perspective; 23: The Globalization of Reform; 24: Legacies of the Counter-Reformation and the Origins of Modern Catholicism
About the author
Alexandra Bamji is Lecturer in Early Modern History in the School of History, University of Leeds, UK. She is a cultural historian of early modern Europe, with particular interests in cities, religion and the history of medicine. Geert H. Janssen is a Special Lecturer in early modern Dutch history at Oxford University and Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is the author of Princely Power in the Dutch Republic: Patronage and William Frederick of Nassau (1613-64) and is currently working on a book about Catholic Exile in the Dutch Revolt. Mary Laven is University Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History, University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent, winner of the 2002 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East.
Summary
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation presents a comprehensive examination of recent scholarship on early modern Catholicism in its many guises. It examines how the Tridentine reforms inspired conflict and conversion, and evaluates lives and identities, spirituality, culture and religious change. This wide-ranging and original r
