Juan de Valdés and the Italian Reformation

Juan de Valdes played a pivotal role in the febrile atmosphere of sixteenth-century Italian religious debate. Fleeing his native Spain after the publication in 1529 of a book condemned by the Spanish Inquisition, he settled in Rome as a political agent of the emperor Charles ...

Catholic reformation in protestant Britain

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 earlier preoccupation with ...

The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589-1597

building the faith of Saint Peter upon the King of Spain's Monarchy

English Catholic voices, once disregarded as merely confessional, are now acknowledged to provide important perspectives on Elizabethan society. Based on extensive archival research, this book builds on previous studies for the first thorough investigation of the Jesuit mission to England during a critical period between ...

Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe

an interdisciplinary view

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 essential to a more comprehensive understanding ...

Law and conscience

catholicism in Early Modern England, 1570-1625

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 most ...

The church of Mary Tudor

CONTENTS: Introduction: The personal religion of Mary I, David Loades. Part I The Process: The Marian Episcopate, David Loades; The English universities, 1553#58, Claire Cross; Westminster Abbey restored, Charles Knighton; The clergy, the church courts and the Marian restoration in Norwich, Ralph Houlbrooke. Part ...

The counter-Reformation

Catholic Europe and the non-Christian world

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 institutions ...

The Jesuits and the Monarchy

Catholic Reform and political authority in France (1590-1615)

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 ...