Episcopal Reform and Politics in Early Modern Europe /

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"In the tumultuous period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when ecclesiastical reform spread across Europe, the traditional role of the bishop as a public exemplar of piety, morality, and communal administration came under attack. In communities where there was tension between religio...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: DeSilva, Jennifer Mara, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Kirksville, MO : Truman State University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Katholische Kirche.
Catholic Church.
Catholic Church > Bishops > History.
Katholische Erneuerung.
Klerus.
Kirchenreform.
Episcopacy.
Clergy > Office.
Christianity and politics > Catholic Church.
Christianity and politics.
Bishops.
Christianity and politics > Europe > History.
Christianity and politics > Catholic Church > History.
Clergy > Office > History.
Episcopacy > History.
Europe.
Europe > Church history.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : the local nature of episcopal reform in the age of the Council of Trent / William V. Hudon
  • Introduction : a living example / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
  • A hierarchy that had fought : episcopal promotion during the reign of Mary I (1553-58) and the roots of episcopal resistance to the Elizabethan religious settlement / Raymond A. Powell
  • Bishops in the Habsburg Netherlands on the eve of the Catholic renewal, 1515-59 / Hans Cools
  • Office and patronage in mid-sixteenth-century Tortona / Antonella Perin and John Alexander
  • The absentee bishop in residence : Paris de' Grassi, Bishop of Pesaro, 1513-28 / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
  • Papal authority, episcopal reservation, and abortion in sixteenth-century Italy / John Christopoulos
  • Ministering to Catholics and Protestants alike : the preaching, polemics, and pastoral care of François de Sales / Jill Fehleison
  • Gender, resistance, and the limits of episcopal authority : Sebastian Zamet's relationships with nuns, 1615-55 / Linda Lierheimer
  • Challenges to episcopal authority in seventeenth-century Padua / Celeste McNamara
  • Trials that should have been : the question of judicial jurisdiction over French bishops in the seventeenth century and the self-narration of the Roman Inquisition / Jean-Pascal Gay.

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