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Early Modern Catholicism

Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J.

edited by Kathleen M. Comerford & Hilmar Pabel

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2001
Category
Catholic, Renaissance, History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802035479
    Publish Date
    Dec 2001
    List Price
    $113.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802084170
    Publish Date
    Dec 2001
    List Price
    $53.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442674202
    Publish Date
    Dec 2001
    List Price
    $111.00

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The so-called Counter- or Catholic Reformation has traditionally been viewed as a monolith. John O'Malley, a distinguished scholar of the Renaissance and Reformation, has decisively challenged this interpretation, emphasizing the variety, vitality, and complexity of Catholicism in the early modern era. The essays in Early Modern Catholicism, written in O'Malley's honour, present new research on subjects ranging from art in China to popular religion, from new religious orders to colonial architecture, and suggest new interpretations of the accepted picture of various societies, institutions, and individuals which together constituted the Catholic Church in the period from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries.

The book examines a wide variety of themes through many different methodologies and perspectives including social, art-historical, legal, educational, musicological, and philosophical. Unique in both scope and subject, it is a significant contribution to the growing field of interdisciplinary studies of Early Modern Catholicism, and will be especially useful in a number of courses in history and religion.

About the authors

Kathleen M. Comerford is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University.

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Hilmar M. Pabel is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, and editor of Erasmus' Vision of the Church.

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