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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive study in English about the medieval imperial abbey of Farfa, which played a key role in the period of ecclesiastical reform, beginning in the mid-eleventh century. Its main sources are the Register and Chronicle, compiled by Gregory of Catino, a partisan monk. Controlling strategic property in central Rome and along the coast of Latium, Farfa functioned as a quasi-imperial embassy, supporting the empire in its struggle with the papacy for hegemony. Imperial ties and internal conflicts led to Farfa's loss of liberties and dependency upon the papacy. The book both depicts the competition between the empire and the papacy, and charts Farfa's losing struggle to maintain Benedictine standards and its independence from an expansive papacy.Trade Review"...Stroll's work is worth the attention of scholars interested in the struggle between the papacy and empire in the 11th and 12th centuries and in the history of central Italian and Roman politics." Rich Ring, The Medieval Review, 1999. "...a serious scholarly study about Farfa's history...a thought-provoking addition to the literature." John W. Bernhardt, Speculum, 2001.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a biography of Pope Innocent III. Avoiding the many scholarly controversies concerning the pope, it offers a concise and balanced portrait of the man and his pontificate. Its chronological organization-unusual in biographies of Innocent-enables the reader to see how the pope was usually dealing with many different subjects at the same time, and that the events in one aspect of his life could influence his views of other topics. This structure, together with the thorough documentation, can provide new insights even for scholars well-versed in his pontificate. Written in clear, jargon-free English, the book also gives the students and general reader a good sense of this pope and of the medieval papacy.Table of Contents1: Lotario dei Conti of Segni 2: The Beginning 3: The Great Princes (1198 to 1200) 4: Curia and City (1200-1203) 5: The Fourth Crusade (1203-1204) 6: Jews and Heretics (1205-1207) 7: Defense of the Church (1207-1212) 8: Renewal (1212-1214) 9: Council and Crusade (1215) 10: The End (1215-1216)

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Book SynopsisThis new interpretation of the reign of Calixtus II (1119-1124) challenges the conventional analysis explaining why this life-long opponent of the emperor, Henry V, agreed to compromise over imperial investitures of bishops in the Concordat of Worms of 1122.Trade Review'Given the immense importance of those years between 1119 and 1124, Stroll's weighty survey of the achievements of the reign of Calixtus is to be welcomed... She has provided much food for further thought.' Constant J. Mews, BMR, 2006. The author deserves considerable thanks for the thoroughness of her research and for providing us with the first biography of Calixtus in more than a century. She demonstrates that this pontificate is not just merely interesting but essential to understand the problems confronting the papacy, not just in terms of church and state but also the fundamental divisions within the leadership of the church. Those who continue to study the reform papacy will certainly find this work useful. James M. Powell, SpeculumTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; List of Maps and Illustrations; PART I. GUY OF VIENNE; Introduction: Guy of Vienne; 1. Guy as Archbishop: The Velvet Glove; 2. Acting on a Larger Stage; 3. Election as Pope; PART II. ENGLAND; 4. England and the German Alliance; 5. York Versus Canterbury; 6. Papal/Anglo-Norman Negotiations; 7. The Victory of Calixtus and Thurstan; 8. Thurstan in York; 9. England: A Qualified Success; PART III. GERMANY; 10. The Empire; 11. Guy's Family and Henry V; 12. The Lay and Ecclesiastical Princes; PART IV. SPAIN AND FRANCE; 13. Raymond, Alfonso and Diego; 14. Calixtus and Spain; 15. The Denouement in Spain; 16. France: The Perspective of Geoffrey of Vendome; PART V. ITALY; 17. Entry into Italy; 18. Corsica; 19. Italy and the Normans; 20. Burdinus, Farfa, and a Revisit to France with Abelard; 21. The Second Expedition to the South; PART VI. THE CONCORDAT OF WORMS; 22. The Background; 23. 1119: Negotiations Fail; 24. The Concordat of Worms; 25. The First Lateran Council; PART VII. SUMMING UP; 26. Cluny and Montecassino; 27. New Ventures; 28. The Final Years; 29. Conclusion; Bibliography; Indexes; Index of Persons; Index of Places; Subject Index

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Book SynopsisNils Blomkvist discusses how the Baltic Rim was initially Europeanized between 1075 and 1225 AD. He compares the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western European one. After the expansive Viking period, European penetration became a process of discovery. The importance of the Catholic Reform movement and its unintentional ties to the formation of an endurable commodity market are outlined. Clashes and compromises are investigated in case studies of the Kalmarsund region, Gotland and the Daugava valley. Dissimilar cases of state formation are compared: those of Sweden and Livonia. Many classical scholarly problems are revisited. A new approach to the period's narrative sources brings to life Scandinavian, German, Russian, Finno-Ugrian and Baltic attitudes and day-to-day concern in the midst of a change of epic dimensions.Trade Review'Combining the Annales school and the postcolonial thought with some Marxist concepts, clash of civilizations, and globalization inspirations, Blomkvist (Gotland Univ. College) produces a truly original approach to understanding the confrontation of an expansive and confident Western society with the older, Eastern-oriented, technologically backward, and diverse societies of the Baltic. .. Highly recommended. Advanced students and researchers.' W.L.Urban, Choice, 2005.Table of ContentsCh. 1 What is Europe to the Baltic? : a survey of the main topic and its sub-problems 3 Ch. 2 The Catholic world-system : a theoretical approach to Europeanization 35 Ch. 3 Cultural encounters on the Baltic : contemporary descriptions of the experience of Europeanization 97 Ch. 4 Network versus territorial control : the political dimension of long 12th century 'change qualitative' 203 Ch. 5 The regional panorama : a brief introduction to chapters six-eight 279 Ch. 6 The discovery of Kalmarsund : the struggle for the gateway to the Baltic North 301 Ch. 7 The discovery of Gotland : the compromising society strategy and the emergence of international law in the Baltic 377 Ch. 8 The discovery of the lower Daugava : an anatomy of a clash 505 Ch. 9 The Catholic world-system and the making of Baltic Rim states : political and nationalistic reactions to the coming of Europe in Sweden and Livonia 567 Conclusions and comments in retrospect : the coming of the Catholic world-system and the Baltic Rim reaction 679

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland is an edited collection of nineteen essays written by a range of experts and some newer scholars in the areas of early modern British and Irish history and religion. In addition to English Catholicism, developments in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, as well as ongoing connections and interactions with Continental Catholicism, are well incorporated throughout the volume. Many currents of the latest scholarship are addressed and advanced, including religious minorities and exiles, women and gender studies, literary and material culture, religious identity construction, and, within Catholic studies, the role of laity as well as clergy, and of female as well as male religious. In all, these essays significantly advance the movement of early modern British and Irish Catholicism from the historiographical margins to an evolving, but ultimately more capacious and accurate, historical mainstream.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction   Robert E. Scully, S.J. 1 Historical Overview, ca. 1530–1829   William J. Sheils Part 1 The Community and Its Place in the National and International Scene 2 The English Secular Clergy, 1559–1829   Peter Phillips 3 The Jesuits and Other Male Religious Orders in Britain and Ireland   Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. 4 Recusant Women Religious The Communities in a National and International Context   Caroline Bowden 5 Catholic Laywomen Activist Piety, Agency, and Strategic Resistance   Colleen M. Seguin 6 Catholic Nobility and Gentry from Reformation to Emancipation   Susan M. Cogan 7 “When Time Should Serve” The Long Wait of Lay Catholic Exiles   Anne R. Throckmorton 8 Becoming Irish Catholics Ireland, 1534–1690   John McCafferty 9 Catholics in Scotland Overview and Literary Culture   Jane Stevenson 10 Scottish Catholic Material Culture   Peter Davidson and David W. Walker 11 Catholics in Wales   Hannah Thomas Part 2 Opposition: Within and Without 12 Domestic Disorder Debating Recusancy within the Catholic Community   Robert E. Scully, S.J. 13 Anti-Catholicism Catholics, Protestants, and the “Popery” Problem   Adam Morton Part 3 Catholic/Recusant Culture 14 Martyrdom and the Catholic Community   Anne Dillon 15 Recusant Literary Culture in England and Wales   Victor Houliston 16 Political and Theological Culture Monarchies and Republics in Recusant Thought   Gary W. Jenkins 17 English Catholic Material Culture, 1558–1688   Janet Graffius 18 Underground Devotions The Day-to-Day Challenges of Practicing an Illegal Faith   Lisa McClain 19 The Catholic Enlightenment in Britain and Ireland   Jonathan Wright Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the result of an innovative linguistic study of the Syriac translation of Ben Sira. It contains both a traditional philological analysis, incorporating matters of text-historical interest and translation technique, and also the results of a computational linguistic analysis of phrases, clauses and texts. It arrives at new linguistic insights, including a proposal for a corpus-based description of phrase structure based on a so-called maximum matrix. The book also addresses the fundamentally different way in which a text is approached in a computer-assisted analysis compared with the way in which this is done in traditional philological approaches. It demonstrates how the computer-assisted analysis can fruitfully shed light on or supplement traditional philological research.

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Book SynopsisThe Companion to Jean Gerson provides a guide to new research on Jean Gerson (1363-1429), theologian, chancellor of the University of Paris, and church reformer. Ten articles outline his life and works, contribution to lay devotion, place as biblical theologian, role as humanist, mystical theology, involvement in the conciliar movement, dilemmas as university master and conflicts with the mendicants, views on women and especially on female visionaries, participation in the debate on the "Roman de la Rose", and the afterlife of his works until the French Revolution. Some of the contributors are veterans of gersonian studies, while others have recently completed their dissertations. All map the relevance of Gerson to understanding late medieval and early modern culture, religion and spirituality.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction In Search of Jean Gerson: Chronology of His Life and Works, Brian Patrick McGuire Gerson on Lay Devotion, Daniel B. Hobbins Discovering Gerson the Humanist: Fifty Years of Serendipity, Gilbert Ouy Making Sense of it all: Gerson’s Biblical Theology, D. Zach Flanagin Gerson as Conciliarist, Francis Oakley Gerson’s Mystical Theology: A New Profile of its Evolution, Jeffrey Fisher Gerson as Preacher in the Conflict between Mendicants and Secular Priests, Nancy McLoughlin Gerson’s Stance on Women, Wendy Love Anderson Jean Gerson and the Debate on the Romance of the Rose, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski Gerson’s Afterlife, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspired or shaped much that became central to European religion and culture. The Observants produced many of the leading religious figures of the later Middle Ages—Catherine of Siena, Bernardino of Siena and Savonarola in Italy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros in Spain, and in Germany Martin Luther himself. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the Observant Movement. Its essays also seek collectively to expand the horizons of our study of Observant reform, and to open new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors are Michael D. Bailey, Pietro Delcorno, Tamar Herzig, Anne Huijbers, James D. Mixson, Alison More, Carolyn Muessig, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Bert Roest, Timothy Schmitz, and Gabriella Zarri.Trade Review“The volume should encourage and help scholars of Observant reform in the late Middle Ages to carry out truly comparative research, as it lays a very solid foundation for future study in this field.” Jan Stejskal, Palacký University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 338-339.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction James Mixson and Bert Roest PART I OBSERVANT REFORM AS INSTITUTIONAL REFORM Ecclesiastical Institutions and Religious Life in the Observant Century Gabriella Zarri Observant Reform’s Conceptual Frameworks between Principle and Practice James D. Mixson Dynamics of Regulation, Innovation, and Invention Alison More “Observance” as Paradigm in Mendicant and Monastic Chronicles Anne Huijbers PART II OBSERVANT REFORM, SOCIETY AND CULTURE “Quomodo discet sine docente?” Observant Efforts towards Education and Pastoral Care Pietro Delcorno Bernardino da Siena and Observant Preaching as a Vehicle for Religious Transformation Carolyn Muessig Pawn Broking between Theory and Practice in Observant Socio-Economic Thought Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli Reformers on Sorcery and Superstition Michael D. Bailey Female Mysticism, Heterodoxy, and Reform Tamar Herzig PART III OBSERVANT LEGACIES The Observance and the Confrontation with Early Protestantism Bert Roest The Jeronymites and Reform in the Era of the Council of Trent Timothy Schmitz From Reconquista to Mission in the Early Modern World Bert Roest Bibliography Index   List of Illustrations 1/ Statuti del Monte di Pietà di Firenze (secc. XV-XVII). Florence, Collezione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze 2/ Libro di conti (riscontro di cassa) (1795). Bologna, Archivio della Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna 3/ Statuti del Monte di Pietà di Udine (1499). Udine, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone 4/ Gonfalone della Pietà (XV sec.). Modena, Palazzo Comunale 4a/ Gonfalone della Pietà (XV sec.). Modena, Palazzo Comunale, detail 5/ Marco da Montegallo, Tabula della salute (1494). Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, inv. B.6 18.B

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive overview of the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe. It surveys the diversity of views about the structure and nature of the movement, pointing toward the possibilities for further research. The volume presents a series of comprehensive treatments on the process and interpretation of Catholic Enlightenment in France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, Malta, Italy and the Habsburg territories. An introductory overview explores the varied meanings of Catholic Enlightenment and situates them in a series of intellectual and social contexts. The topics covered in this book are crucial for a proper understanding of the role and place not only of Catholicism in the eighteenth century, but also for the social and religious history of modern Europe. Contributors include: Jeffrey D. Burson, Richard Butterwick, Frans Ciappara, Harm Klueting, Ulrich L. Lehner, Michael Printy, Mario Rosa, Evergton Sales Souza, and Andrea J. Smidt.Trade Review"I cannot praise this collection and its bibliographies highly enough." Trent Pomplun, Loyola University-Baltimore, in Nova et vetera, 2012, pp 882-885 "Den Anspruch auf sorgfältige historische Kontextualisierung löst der Band mit Bravour ein. Es entsteht ein facettenreiches Panorama des 18. Jahrhunderts" Reinald Becker, München, in Historische Zeitschrift, 2012, pp 194-196 "The editors have succeeded in publishing a volume full of facts, perspectives, and insights along with extensive footnotes and bibliographies that will be helpful for further study of what, overall, can be called the Catholic enlightenment." Rick Kennedy, Point Loma Nazarene University. In: Church History, May 2012, pp 462-464. "Es gereicht der renommierten Reihe Companion(s) to Christian Tradition des Verlagshauses Brill zu Ehre, mit dem vorliegenden Band die weltweit führenden Fachleute ihrer Materie versammelt zu haben, um dem Phänomen geistig-theologischen Lebens des 18. Jahrhunderts nachzugehen und dieses in einer verständlichen, umfassenden, wissenschaftlich reflektierten und dabei dennoch stets gut lesbaren Form einem interessierten Publikum darzubieten." Josef Johannes Schmid, Francia-Recensio 2012. "The essays are in-depth, up to sixty pages long, frequently with extensive footnotes and references, which allow for considerable analysis as well as the presentation of illuminating examples. Both primary and secondary sources are utilised, and methodological questions are not ignored. […] The contributors do not always agree with all the conclusions drawn by their colleagues in the project, but far from detracting from the value of this Companion, this “discordant harmony” adds to the subtlety and depth of the book as a whole." Paul Shore, Brandon University. In: Journal of Religious History, Vol. 36, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 133-134. "This volume is a highly valuable mapping of a poorly known movement in religious history that should be of major interest to both historians and theologians." Peter Steinfels, Fordham University, New York. In: Theological Studies (2012), pp. 222-224. "This is a distinguished collection of essays, which can claim to “serve as a recovery of a forgotten episode” (p. 166), of a time when the Catholic Church was in many respects a broader church than it was to become in the nineteenth century after it was confronted by revolution." Derek Beales, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. In: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 97, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 822-824. “Co-edited by Ulrich L. Lehner and Michael Printy, A Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe includes substantial contributions from nine distinguished international scholars. The collection draws on a vast range of primary sources and synthesizes several decades' worth of scholarship in multiple languages.” Brad S. Gregory, University of Notre Dame. In: The Thomist, Vol. 75 (2011), pp. 461-75. "Den beiden Hg.n ist es [...] gelungen, einen in zweifacher Hinsicht bemerkenswerten „Begleiter“ ins katholische 18. Jh. vorzulegen: Er bietet viel solide Information und Überblicke für Leser, die handbuchartiges Wissen suchen, dazu reichhaltige Literaturverweise zur weiteren Lektüre. Er spiegelt damit aber auch den Stand und die Vorläufigkeit der Forschung und wird so für alle, die sich forschend mit der Epoche befassen, zu einem ergiebigen Repertorium von Informationen und neuen Fragestellungen." Bernward Schmidt, RWTH Aachen University. In: Theologische Revue, Jg. 107, Nr. 6 (2011), pp. 483-484. “[…] le livre propose des synthèses utiles sur un sujet largement méconnu aussi bien par les historiens des Lumières que par ceux du catholicisme” […] “un excellent instrument de travail.” Yves Krumenacker, Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3. In: Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, Vol. 106, Nos. 3-4 (July-December 2011), pp. 748-751. "In the Holy Roman Empire especially, severe intellectual competition and even strife informed and influenced the debates about enlightenment philosophy. This clearly makes for a difference in comparison with those countries where Catholicism was the only confession. Michael Printy’s contribution is thus particularly useful and ought to be singled out as an exceptionally insightful piece of work." Peter Schröder, University College London. In Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 63, No. 3 (July 2012), pp. 631-632.Table of Contents1. General Introduction: Ulrich L. Lehner 2. France: Jeff Burson 3. Holy Roman Empire: Michael Printy 4. Austria and the Hapsburg Countries: Harm Klueting 5. Italy including Papal States: Mario Rosa 6. Spain: Andrea Smidt-Sittema 7. Portugal: Ana Araujo 8. Ireland: Douglas Palmer 9. Poland: Richard Butterwick 10. Malta: Frans Ciappara

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Book SynopsisThe work of Lorenzo Valla (1406-57) has enjoyed renewed attention in recent years, as have new critical editions of his texts. One of the most interesting interpreters of Valla, Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P., had a following among scholars who read Italian, but very little of his work saw the light in English before his death in 2002. This book presents two of Camporeale’s studies on Valla in English, which examine in detail two of Valla’s works: his treatise on the Donation of Constantine (undoubtedly the work for which Valla is best known) and his Encomium of Saint Thomas Aquinas, delivered publicly in the last year of Valla’s life and, in Camporeale’s reading, summing up Valla’s multi-faceted thought.Trade Review“This book is an invaluable contribution to the field of Renaissance studies […] Baker’s elegant translation provides a clear, faithful version of Camporeale’s often complex and intricate style. As such, the present volume will also prove an invaluable tool for scholars and students who are not fully versed in Italian or are not familiar with contemporary Italian scholarship.” Maude Vanhaelen, University of Warwick. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 66, No. 3 (July 2015), pp. 648-649.

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Book SynopsisThe Oratorian priest Antonio Gallonio (1556-1605) devoted his life to writing about saints. The thread running through his hagiographical oeuvre was renunciation of this world: humility, subservience and endurance. Yet he engaged with the expertise of lay people, jurists, physicians and engineers, so as to appeal to their interests and convert them. In order to emphasize how saints endured torture, healed disease and exercised piety rather than ingenuity, Gallonio ventured into those secular disciplines, even if he did not endorse them. This book surveys Gallonio’s published and unpublished works and his position in Roman society, to expose the tensions between a theocratic clergy and the self-assertion of skilled and scholarly professionals in the Italian Counter-Reformation.Trade Review“In this clear and insightful new study Jetze Touber brings together Gallonio’s disparate (manuscript and in print) writings in the field of hagiography. This corpus, written in both Latin and Italian, was aimed at a wide public and Touber does a marvelous job, showing how Italian and Latin versions were written with different audiences in mind.” Jan Machielsen, Oxford. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 66, No. 2 (April 2015), p. 437.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Illustrations 1. Introduction 1.1 Gallonio and the Oratory 1.2 Social discipline and intellectual history 1.3 Working method 1.4 Vero figliuolo del nostro Padre 2. Hagiography and Historiography 2.1 Hagiography and Historia sacra 2.2 Gallonio’s sources 2.3 The Christian history of the Oratorians 2.4 Conclusion 3. Judicial Proceedings and Malicious Torture 3.1 Canonization process 3.2 Confessors 3.3 Martyrs 3.4 Conclusion 4. Health and Holiness 4.1 Spiritual and physical health 4.2 Gallonio and the physicians 4.3 The body of the saint 4.4 Conclusion 5. Martyrological Technology 5.1 Nobility, emblems, machinery 5.2 Technical operation 5.3 Illustration 5.4 Conclusion 6. Collecting Material about Saints 6.1 Collection 6.2 Classification 6.3 Presentation 6.4 Conclusion 7. Epilogue Bibliography Works by Antonio Gallonio Primary Sources Secondary Works Index

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Book SynopsisIn Liturgy, Books and Franciscan Identity in Medieval Umbria, Anna Welch explores how Franciscan friars engaged with manuscript production networks operating in Umbria in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries to produce the missals essential to their liturgical lives. A micro-history of Franciscan liturgical activity, this study reassesses methodologies pertinent to manuscript studies and reflects on both the construction of communal identity through ritual activity and historiographic trends regarding this process. Welch focuses on manuscripts decorated by the ateliers of the Maestro di Deruta-Salerno (active c. 1280) and Maestro Venturella di Pietro (active c. 1317), in particular the Codex Sancti Paschalis, a missal now owned by the Australian Province of the Order of Friars Minor.Trade Review"In 2016, our knowledge of Franciscan history was enriched by Brill’s publication of Anna Welch’s Liturgy, Books and Franciscan Identity in Medieval Umbria. Based on an analysis of late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century missals, this book considers the role that liturgy played in forming and preserving the communal identity of early Franciscans living in Umbria. [...] This illuminating case study is a welcome analysis of a subject that has for years merited far more academic attention, and serves as a long overdue corrective to previous scholarship. Welch’s thorough knowledge of the extensive manuscript evidence and her masterful interaction with the secondary literature are truly impressive. This monograph belongs on the shelves of all scholars interested in Franciscan history, liturgical history, medieval art history, and Umbrian religious and social history." Andrew J. G. Drenas, University of Massachusetts Lowell, in: Renaissance Quarterly 71, no. 1 2018): 347-348.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix List of Plates xi Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 The Codex Sancti Paschalis 6 Limitations, Terms and Definitions 16 1 The Silent Parchment? A New Methodology for the Study of Missals 20 1.1 The Historiography of Illuminated Liturgical Manuscripts 20 1.2 Art History and the Codex Sancti Paschalis 23 Maestro di Deruta-Salerno 32 Venturella di Pietro 33 Mss. Linked to the CSP and/or Mss. Listed above, Without Specific Attribution to a Master/School 34 1.3 Selection Rationale for the Missals under Study 35 1.4 Towards a New Model for Manuscript Studies: Liturgical History Meets Ritual and Performance Theory 40 2 Quarrelling Brothers – Liturgy and Identity, 1209–1274 51 2.1 The Narrative of Franciscan Liturgical History 51 2.2 Franciscan Liturgy: The Regula Editions? 54 2.2.1 The Regula Missal 55 2.2.2 The Regula Breviary 66 2.3 Elias of Cortona to Haymo of Faversham: The Concept of a Second Founder 71 2.3.1 Haymo’s Ordinal 76 2.3.2 The Question of Liturgical Unity 78 2.4 John of Parma to Bonaventure: The Difficulties of Achieving Liturgical Unity 79 2.5 The Friars Minor, Liturgy and Identity in the Thirteenth Century 87 3 The Order of Friars Minor and the Book 92 3.1 The Scribes 92 3.2 The Miniaturists 100 3.2.1 Friar-Miniaturists in a Scriptorium in Assisi? 102 3.2.2 Scholarly Conceptualisation of a Simplistic Franciscan Decorative Style and Its Meaning 106 3.3 ‘Pauperistico’? Franciscan Spirituality in Perugian Miniatures 116 3.3.1 Crucifixion Miniatures from the Selected Missals 117 3.4 Conclusions 131 4 Calendars – Comparing the Evidence 133 4.1 The Historiography and Methodology of Studying Sainthood, Liturgical Calendars and the Commemoration of Saints 134 4.2 Short Catalogue Entries for CSP and B–E: Codicology and Provenance 138 4.3 The Calendars Compared 148 Key to Symbols and Abbreviations 149 4.4 Conclusions 174 5 Celebrating Saints – Articulating Communal Identity through Liturgy 175 5.1 Selection of Feasts for Analysis; Methodology 175 5.2 The Feasts in CSP and B–E 178 5.2.1 Feasts of St. Francis 178 5.2.2 Feasts of St. Anthony of Padua 181 5.2.3 Feasts of St. Clare 183 5.2.4 Feast of Elisabeth of Hungary 185 5.2.5 Feast of St. Louis of Toulouse 185 5.2.6 Feast of St. Louis ix, King of France 186 5.2.7 Feasts of St. Herculanus, Bishop of Perugia 188 5.2.8 Feast of Ubaldo, Patron Saint of Gubbio 188 5.2.9 Feast of St. Dominic 189 5.2.10 Feast of St. Peter Martyr (of Verona) 189 5.2.11 Feast of Augustine of Hippo 190 5.2.12 Feast of St. Bernard of Clairvaux 190 5.2.13 Feasts of the Virgin 190 5.3 Categories of Interpretation 194 5.3.1 Rubrication 194 5.3.2 Wording of the Entries 195 5.3.3 Inclusion/Exclusion of Localised Feasts in a) Calendar and b) Proper of the Saints 196 5.3.4 Inclusion/Exclusion of Feasts from Other Orders (i.e. Dominicans and Cistercians) 198 5.3.5 Relationship to Roman Curia’s Calendar 200 5.3.6 Additions and Absences 201 5.3.7 Adherence to Haymo’s Ordinal 202 Conclusions and Directions for Future Research The Codex Sancti Paschalis from the Thirteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries 204 Liturgy’s Role in the Construction of Communal Identity amongst the Medieval Order of Friars Minor 204 Questions for Future Research 214 The Codex Sancti Paschalis as a Site of Communal Memory 216 Appendix 1 Previous Studies of the Codex Sancti Paschalis 219 Appendix 2 Liturgical Contents of the Codex Sancti Paschalis 224 Bibliography 247 1. Primary 247 1.1 Manuscripts Consulted 248 2. Secondary 249 Index of Modern Authors 265 Index of Subjects 267

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Book SynopsisOne of the earliest and most ambitious projects carried out by the Society of Jesus was the mission to the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, which ran from 1557 to 1632. In about 1621, crucial figures in the Ethiopian Solomonid monarchy, including King Susenyos, were converted to Catholicism and up to 1632 imposing missionary churches, residences, and royal structures were built. This book studies for the first time in a comprehensive manner the missionary architecture built by the joint work of Jesuit padres, Ethiopian and Indian masons, and royal Ethiopian patrons. The work gives ample archaeological, architectonic, and historical descriptions of the ten extant sites known to date and includes hypotheses on hitherto unexplored or lesser known structures.Trade Review“This is a first-rate and comprehensive study, richly illustrated and (as one would expect with Brill) well presented […]. It sets the standard for historical archaeological work in eastern Africa and will hopefully encourage other archaeologists, working with Ethiopian heritage professionals, scholars and communities, to engage with some of the more recent sites, all places that have much to reveal about the complex and rich history of imperial Ethiopia and its engagement with the outside world over the last six hundred or so years.” Niall Finneran, University of Winchester. In: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Vol. 53, No. 1 (2018), pp. 123–125. A “monumental volume”. […] “It is of the highest quality and will reward any and all who consult it.” Steven Kaplan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 1 (January 2019), pp. 191–192. “This substantial, well-produced book has raised the state of knowledge of this field, as well as our understanding of historical archaeology as applied to an African context, to a whole new level. […] It should remain a major reference work for archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians for many years to come.” Tania Tribe, SOAS University of London. In: Journal of Early Modern History, Vol. 24, N. 3 (2020), pp. 293–295.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors 1 Introduction: The Fieldwork and the Team Víctor M. Fernández 2 The Infrastructure of the Mission: Convents, Palaces, and Temples Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner 2.1 The Jesuit Mission: From Oviedo to Mendes 2.2 Pedro Páez: The Experimental Phase, 1614–21 2.3 João Martins and the Indian Builders: The Patriarchal Phase, 1626–32 2.4 The Mughal Hypothesis 3 The Mission Sites Víctor M. Fernández, Jorge de Torres, Carlos Cañete, and Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Fǝremona 3.2.1 Introduction and Historical Data 3.2.2 The Ruins 3.3 The Royal-Missionary Complex of Azäzo-Gännätä Iyäsus 3.3.1 Introduction 3.3.2 The Jesuit Church 3.3.3 The Fortified Enclosure 3.3.4 The Palace-Residence 3.3.5 The Hydraulic Systems 3.3.6 Gännätä Iyäsus after the Jesuits’ Departure 3.3.7 The Material Culture 3.4 Gorgora, the “Phoenix of Ethiopia” 3.4.1 Gorgora in the History of the Jesuit Mission 3.4.2 Locating the Different “Gorgoras” 3.4.3 The Remains of Gorgora Nova 3.4.4 The Church of Gorgora Iyäsus 3.4.5 The Residence 3.4.6 The Material Culture 3.4.7 An Oral History about Gorgora Nova 3.5 Dänqäz 3.5.1 Introduction and Historical Data 3.5.2 The Palace 3.5.3 The Cistern 3.5.4 The Church 3.6 Däbsan 3.6.1 Introduction and Historical Data 3.6.2 The Ruins 3.7 Särka 3.7.1 Introduction and Historical Data 3.7.2 The Church of Virgin Mary 3.7.3 The Fortified Compound 3.7.4 The Main Building or “Palace” 3.7.5 The Subterranean Room or “Prison” 3.8 Ǝnnäbǝse—Märṭulä Maryam 3.8.1 Introduction and Historical Data 3.8.2 The Ruins 3.9 Abba Gǝš Fasil (Lǝǧǧä Nǝguś?) 3.9.1 The Historical Data 3.9.2 The Ruins 3.10 Qwälläla 3.10.1 The Historical Data 3.10.2 The Ruins 3.11 Hadaša 3.12 The “Lost” Missions 3.12.1 Tanḵa 3.12.2 Näfaša 3.12.3 Ankaša 3.12.4 Atḵäna 3.12.5 Märäba 3.12.6 Gäbärma 3.12.7 Dǝbarwa 3.12.8 Adegada 4 The Politics of Domination in Missionary and Royal Architecture Carlos Cañete and Jorge de Torres 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Main Traits and Exceptions 4.3 Particular Interests, Global Consequences 4.4 The Material Accommodation of Power 4.5 The Regulation of Manners 4.6 From Materiality to Society 5 Conclusions Victor M. Fernández 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Before the Mission 5.3 Before the Chunambo 5.4 After the Chunambo 5.5 After the Mission: The Origins of Gondärine Architecture 5.6 After the Mission: The “Closure” and Transformation of Jesuit Structures 5.7 A Troubled Legacy 5.8 Conclusions Appendixes 1 The Topography of the Mission Sites Eduardo Martín Agúndez and Víctor del Arco Sanz 2 Three-Dimensional Laser-Scanner Reconstructions Christian Dietz and Gianluca Catanzariti 3 3D Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Survey at the Azäzo—Gännätä Iyäsus Jesuit Mission Gianluca Catanzariti and Christian Dietz 4 Technical Report on the Construction Materials, State of Conservation, and Restoration Proposals Jorge A. Durán 5 Public Archaeology in Azäzo Jaime Almansa Bibliography Manuscript Sources Printed Sources Secondary Literature Index

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Book SynopsisCatholics in Independent Indonesia: 1945-2010 concludes Steenbrink’s three volume historical account of Catholicism in Indonesia with a detailed report of the survival and growth of this minority religion in Muslim Indonesia since its independence in 1945. Colonial Catholicism survived in the independent Republic of Indonesia during the nationalist Sukarno regime (1945-1965) and regained a new dynamic during the general religious revival that was part of the New Order of Soeharto after 1965. From a Dutch-inspired institution it became a fully Indonesian steered community with a modern and international character. The second half of the book will deal with the different regional developments in this vast country.Trade Review"With the publication of this volume, Karel Steenbrink […] has completed a magnificent trilogy in which the history of Catholics in Indonesia is described from 1808 up to today." – Alle G. Hoekema, in: Exchange 45 (2016), 94-97 [DOI: 10.1163/1572543X-12341390] "[…] the book is a very valuable contribution; it pushes the reader towards further inquiry while providing a solid and formidable place to start." – Faizah Zakaria, in: New Asia Books (Posted online on 3 June 2016)

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Book SynopsisIn Envoys of A Human God Andreu Martínez offers a comprehensive study of the religious mission led by the Society of Jesus in Christian Ethiopia. The mission to Ethiopia was one of the most challenging undertakings carried out by the Catholic Church in early modern times. The book examines the period of early Portuguese contacts with the Ethiopian monarchy, the mission’s main developments and its aftermath, with the expulsion of the Jesuit missionaries. The study profits from both an intense reading of the historical record and the fruits of recent archaeological research. Long-held historiographical assumptions are challenged and the importance of cultural and socio-political factors in the attraction and ultimate estrangement between European Catholics and Ethiopian Christians is highlighted.Trade Review“This is the first comprehensive English-language account of the best-documented case of early modern missionarism in sub-Saharan Africa: the Jesuit mission to Ethiopia. Whereas in recent decades the topic has received the attention of many scholars, none of the extant accounts [...] can be compared in terms of comprehensiveness and depth of analysis to Martínez’s. […] The volume is bound to become required reading for specialists of the Horn, of Africa’s missionary history, and of the Society of Jesus. Furthermore, because of the original framing of the mission in the larger world of the society’s endeavors in Asia and the rise and demise of the Estado da India, the volume will attract considerable interest among Indian Ocean specialists. Lastly, the volume’s encyclopedic character, the generous bibliography, its noteworthy appendixes dedicated to the genealogy of the Ethiopian royal house, and the demographics of the Jesuits in Ethiopia and their intellectual production are likely to make it an appealing reference work for scholars in other fields.” Matteo Salvadore, Gulf University for Science and Technology. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 2 (Summer 2016), pp. 749-750. “The phenomenon [of the Jesuit mission to Ethiopia] has attracted a great many studies, but none have been so meticulously researched as Envoys of a Human God by Andreu Martínez d’ Alòs-Moner. For the first time we have a thorough reconstruction not only of the historical, political, and religious background of the mission, but of every detail of the daily lives of the missionaries, their policy, and the various attempts to transform the local culture undertaken by the indefatigable members of the Society of Jesus. […] Envoys of a Human God is a fascinating study accompanied by excellent maps and a useful index. The second volume of Brill’s new series of Jesuit Studies, nowhere does it fall short of the high standard set by the first.” Alastair Hamilton, The Warburg Institute, London. In: Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 95, No. 4 (2015), pp. 534-537. “Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner has written a superb and comprehensive study of the origin, rise and fall of the Jesuit mission in Ethiopia. This great achievement will be the standard work on this venture for many years to come. Thoroughly researched and well structured, the book presents the vast material in a consistently interesting narrative, which is complemented by five appendices, an extensive bibliography and a detailed index.” Jan Loop, The University of Kent. In: The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 58, No. 3 (May 2017), pp. 459-461. “Martínez d’Alòs-Moner’s excellent book provides fertile soil for future research in the Society of Jesus missionary studies, representing as it does an attempt to move the discipline forward and attest to the new vitality of multidisciplinary research in the field. […] The result is a new interpretation that will help to redefine Jesuit missionary studies by guiding the research toward issues of connections and collaboration in diverse geo-cultural areas. Martínez d’Alòs-Moner’s sophisticated reading shows a rich insight into the Ethiopian responses to European colonialism and the Jesuit global mission.” Raúl Marrero-Fente, University of Minnesota. In: Itinerario, Vol. 40, No. 3 (2016), pp. 549-586. “Envoys of a Human God is a welcome addition to the literature on Ethiopia and the Society of Jesus. Martínez d’Alòs-Moner takes stock of the most important works on this topic and skillfully assays the events leading up to the expulsion and its immediate aftermath. Fittingly, the last chapter, “Exile and Memory,” raises new questions and lines of research that have been prompted by this compelling monograph.” Leonardo Cohen, University of Haifa. In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 86, No. 171 (2017), pp. 228-230. “a valuable contribution to Ethiopian studies.” Bairu Tafla, University of Hamburg. In: Aethiopica, Vol. 19 (2016), pp. 286-288.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures, Maps, Plates and Tables List of Abbreviations Glossary of Terms Introduction PART 1 From Diu to Fǝremona 1 The Prester John’s New Clothes The Courting of the nǝguś Dom João III: Religious Reform as Expansion The Preste’s New Clothes 2 From Santiago to St. Paul Evangelizing the Preste Santiago’s Last Call Paul’s Momentum 3 Native Networks The Carreira to the Preste Diu and the Banyans Massawa, Fǝremona and the Ethio-Portuguese PART 2 From Fǝremona to Gorgora 4 Mission Metrics 1555–1603: Difficult Beginnings 1603–1623: Setting up a Local Missionary Network 1623–1632: The Catholic Patriarchate and the Expansion of the Network 5 Mission Politics The Redução of Christian Ethiopia Observation, Deconstruction, and Replacement of Ethiopian Christianity Beyond Absolutism 6 Mission Culture The Presentation of Self in Missionary Life A Theology of the Visible Spaces of Faith, Spaces of Power Mission Support PART 3 From Gorgora to Goa 7 Yäṭǝnt Utopian Ethiopia The Mission of the Qwälläfä and Chalcedonians From Dissent to Open Resistance 8 Exile and Memory The Mission after the Jesuits Longing for Ethiopia A Mission between Oblivion and Curiosity 9 Conclusions Appendix 1 Leading Political Figures in the Red Sea, India, and Europe, ca. 1600–1635 Appendix 2 National and Provincial Rulers in Christian Ethiopia, 1603–1636 Appendix 3 Jesuit Missionaries in Ethiopia, 1555–1632 Appendix 4 Intellectual Production during the Mission, 1611–1632 Appendix 5 Genealogical Chart of the Extended Ethiopian Royal Family (ca. 1550–1640) Sources and bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe very name of Confucius is a constant reminder that the “foremost sage” in China was first known in the West through Latin works. The most influential of these was the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (Confucius, the Philosopher of China), published in Paris in 1687. For more than two hundred years, Western intellectuals like Leibniz and Voltaire read and meditated on the sayings of Confucius from this Latin version. Thierry Meynard examines the intellectual background of the Jesuits in China and their thought processes in coming to understand the Confucian tradition. He presents a trilingual edition of the Lunyu, including the Chinese text, the Latin translation of the Lunyu and its commentaries, and their rendition in modern English, with notes.Trade Review“a highly useful contribution to the field of Sinology and the history of Christianity in China.” Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University. In: Journal of Chinese Religions, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2017), pp. 104-105. “This is a well-written work […] of great use to those scholars who have an interest in the work of Jesuit missionaries in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in Confucian classics, or, more generally, in translation or Chinese studies.” Arianna Magnani, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 769-770. “In his edition Meynard has added to the Latin original a fluent and elegant English translation as well as the Chinese of the quotations from Confucius. The result is an admirable contribution to a number of fields – the history of the Society and its missions, the history of the study of Chinese, and the reception of Confucius in the West.” Alastair Hamilton, The Warburg Institute. In: The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 58, No. 3 (May 2017), pp. 457-458.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction I. The Genesis of the Sinarum Philosophus and its Prototypes II. The Interweaving of Different Chinese Sources III. Editorial Choices in Translating the Lunyu IV. The Jesuit Reading of the Lunyu and the Image of Confucius V. The Life of Confucius and his Portrait VI. The Reception of the Lunyu through Two Derivative Works Conclusion: Classics in the Global Age Trilingual Edition of the Lunyu, with Notes The Life of Confucius, Father of Chinese Philosophy Appendix. Ming Edition of the Lunyu jizhu with References in the Sinarum Philosophus Vocabulary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEn réconciliant séparés et pénitents, l’Église ancienne pensait que recevoir l’Esprit ne dépendait pas d’un rite – comme on l’envisagera au Moyen- ge – mais de la seule initiative divine. Cette étude donne des clés pour un renouveau théologique, pastoral et œcuménique. When reconciling penitents or those who had left her, the early Church believed that Spirit’s reception did not depended on a rite but solely on the divine initiative. This study provides keys for a renewal of pneumatology, pastoral practice, ecumenism.Trade Review"Extensa monografía que viene a dar respuesta a importantes cuestiones referidas a la teología y ritualidad cristiana con el Espíritu Santo como centro de atención: ¿Cómo insufla Dios el Espíritu en sus fieles? ¿Pueden estos perderlo? y en este último caso ¿existe algún modo de recuperarlo?" Israel M. Gallarte and Dámaris Romero, in: Filología Neotestamentaria, Vols. 28-29 (2014-2015).

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Book SynopsisIn Jesuit Polymath of Madrid D. Scott Hendrickson offers the first English-language account of the life and work of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658), a leading intellectual in Spain during the turbulent decades of the mid-seventeenth century. Most remembered as a prominent ascetic in the neo-Platonic tradition, Nieremberg emerges here as a writer deeply indebted to the legacy of Ignatius Loyola and his Spiritual Exercises. Hendrickson convincingly shows how Nieremberg drew from his formation in the Jesuit order at the time of its first centenary to engage the cultural and intellectual currents of the Spanish Golden Age. As an author of some seventy-five works, which represent several genres and were translated throughout Europe and abroad, Nieremberg’s literary enterprise demands attention.Trade Review“Thoroughly and carefully researched, elegantly written, and clearly organized, this study serves as an excellent introduction to Nieremberg and his age. […] This book is a landmark achievement.” - Carlos Eire, Yale University, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 3/4 (2016), pp. 694-696 [DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00304009-03] “Essential reading for those interested in Jesuit studies and the intellectual history of early modern Spain.” - Xavier Tubau, Hamilton College, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 767-769 “This volume is an excellent introduction to Spanish literary and spiritual motifs of the seventeenth century. Hendrickson ably succeeds in his case for Nieremberg’s continued place in the pantheon of Jesuit writers.” - Barton T. Geger, SJ, Regis University, Denver, in: Theological Studies 77/3 (2016), pp. 742-743 “Como suele ser habitual en la editorial Brill, la factura del libro es magnífica en cuanto a su impresión, encuadernación e ilustración, destacando en esto último las acertadas incursiones que realiza en la pintura del sevillano Valdés Leal, el último gran pintor alegórico del Barroco español. Valoriza más la edición la inclusión de útiles apéndices (una bibliografía nierembergiana completa y una selección de decretos trentinos aludidos), de una completa y bien clasificada bibliografía y de un imprescindible índice onomástico y temático en donde se trasluce la enorme cantidad de recursos empleados en esta exitosa investigación.” - Francisco José Aranda Pérez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, in: Vínculos de Historia 5 (2016), pp. 381-383Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg Introduction The Jesuit Faithful Son of Saint Ignatius Christian Discernment The Ignatian Exercises: Seeking and Finding the Divine Will Discernment in Early Modern Spain Nieremberg and the Exercises Jesuit Ministry of the Word Erudite Eclecticism Conclusion Chapter 2. Catechetical Innovations Introduction Catechetical Context: Crying Tears of Blood Nieremberg and Trent The Voice of Doctrine The Catechetical Examples: Entertaining Digressions Narrative Appeal: The Open Roads of Spain Contemplating the Example: To Bring to Memory Assimilating the Example: The Story of One’s Life The Wider Application of the Exemplo Conclusion Chapter 3. Contemplating the Book of Nature Introduction Nieremberg’s Natural Philosophy The Miscellanies: Part Knowledge, Part Wonder Knowledge of the Natural World: Ad perfectam cognitionem Reading the Book of Nature: Harmony and Deformity Contemplating the Book of Nature: The Consideration Applying the Lessons of Nature: Deus me fecit Conclusion Chapter 4. The Spiritual Exercise of Reading Introduction The Eusebio Proper Knowledge Contemptus mundi Didactic Iconography: Ser and Parecer A Spiritual Itinerary Meditative Reading Conclusion Chapter 5. Public Maladies and Prudent Reform Introduction Words of Counsel The Pain of National Decline The Cause The Remedy Prudent Reform Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1. Bibliography of Works by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg Appendix 2. Cited Decrees from the Council of Trent Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Colette of Corbie presents a collection of essays offering new historical and religious perspectives on the life, career, and influences of this little-studied fifteenth-century saint. Colette of Corbie, a contemporary of Joan of Arc, established an important reform movement in the Franciscan order; founded numerous monasteries for women in Burgundy, France, and the Low Countries; and had connections with high ranking Burgundian and French noble families. Essays in this volume draw upon many relatively unknown primary sources and add significantly to the scholarship on this important religious figure. Contributors are: Anna Campbell, Joan Mueller, Andrea Pearson, Jane Marie Pinzino, Monique Somme, Ludovic Viallet, and Nancy Bradley WarrenTable of ContentsAuthor Biographies List of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Life and Afterlives of St. Colette of Corbie: Religion, Politics, and Networks of Power Nancy Bradley Warren 2 The Dukes and Duchesses of Burgundy as Benefactors of Colette of Corbie and the Colettine Poor Clares Monique Sommé 3 But Where to Draw the Line? Colette of Corbie, Joan of Arc and the Expanding Boundaries of Women's Leadership in the Fifteenth Century Jane Marie Pinzino 4 Colette of Corbie and the de observantia Franciscan Reforms in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century Ludovic Viallet 5 Colette of Corbie and the "Privilege of Poverty" Joan Mueller 6 Imaging and Imagining Colette of Corbie: An Illuminated Version of Pierre de Vaux's Vie de Colette Andrea Pearson 7 Colette of Corbie: Cult and Canonization Anna Campbell Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Medieval Papacy brings together an international group of experts on various aspects of the medieval papacy. Each chapter provides an up-to-date introduction to and scholarly interpretation of topics of crucial importance to the development of the papacy’s thinking about its place in the medieval world and of its institutional structures. Topics covered include: the Papal States; the Gregorian Reform; papal artistic self-representation; hierocratic theory; canon law; decretals; councils; legates and judges delegate; the apostolic camera, chancery, penitentiary, and Rota; relations with Constantinople; crusades; missions. The volume includes an introductory chapter by Thomas F.X. Noble on the historiographical challenges of writing medieval papal history. Contributors are: Sandro Carocci, Atria A. Larson, Andrew Louth, Jehangir Malegam, Andreas Meyer, Harald Müller, Thomas F.X. Noble, Francesca Pomarici, Rebecca Rist, Kirsi Salonen, Felicitas Schmieder, Keith Sisson, Danica Summerlin, and Stefan Weiß.Trade Review“A Companion to the Medieval Papacy is rare and welcome in that it offers a book accessible to readers at an entry level yet also contains serious scholarly essays, in English, with a good bibliography where readers can continue their investigations in multiple areas and at multiple levels. […] it is worth remarking on the fact that this is a splendidly produced volume, which includes a series of good reproductions of medieval images, works of art etc., in both black-and-white and colour.” Robert Sommerville, Columbia University. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 69, No. 2 (April 2018), p. 385.Table of ContentsList of Contributors List of Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Atria A. Larson 1 Narratives of Papal History Thomas F.X. Noble Part I: Popes and Princes, Polemic and Propaganda 2 Pro-Papacy Polemic and the Purity of the Church: The Gregorian Reform Jehangir Malegam 3 Popes as Princes? The Papal States (1000-1300) Sandro Carocci 4 Papal Imagery and Propaganda: Art, Architecture, and Liturgy Francesca Pomarici 5 Popes over Princes: Hierocratic Theory Keith Sisson Part II: Law and Judgement 6 Popes and Canon Law Atria A. Larson 7 Papal Decretals Atria A. Larson and Keith Sisson 8 Papal Councils in the High Middle Ages Danica Summerlin Part III: Administration Abroad and at Home 9 The Omnipresent Pope: Legates and Judges Delegate Harald Müller 10 The Curia: Camera Stefan Weiß 11 The Curia: Chancery Andreas Meyer 12 The Curia: The Apostolic Penitentiary Kirsi Salonen 13 The Curia: The Sacra Romana Rota Kirsi Salonen Part IV: Beyond the Latin Church 14 Relations with Constantinople Andrew Louth 15 The Medieval Papacy, Crusading, and Heresy, 1095-1291 Rebecca Rist 16 Missionary Activity Felicitas Schmieder Appendix: Chronology of Key Pontificates Keith Sisson Select Bibliography General Index Index of Legal Citations Index of Papal Letters Index of Important Texts

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Book SynopsisIn Founding Father, Michael F. Lombardo provides the first critical biography of John J. Wynne, S.J. (1859-1948). One of the most prominent American Catholic intellectuals of the early twentieth century, Wynne was founding editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia (1907) and the Jesuit periodical America (1909), and served as vice-postulator for the canonization causes of the first American saints (the Jesuit Martyrs of North America) and Kateri Tekakwitha. Lombardo uses theological inculturation to explore the ways in which Wynne used his publications to negotiate American Catholic citizenship during the Progressive Era. He concludes that Wynne’s legacy was part of a flowering of early-twentieth century American Catholic intellectual thought that made him a key forerunner to the mid-century Catholic Revival.Trade Review“Michael Lombardo has done a great service by drawing attention to one of the many overlooked characters in the history of US Catholicism, one of the far too many unknown Catholics who made important contributions to the USA”. - James Grummer SJ, Rome, in: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 86, No. 171 (2017), pp. 237-240 “an important addition to Brill’s “Jesuit studies” series” - Patrick Hayes, Redemptorist Archives of the Baltimore Province, Philadelphia, in: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 104, No. 1 (Winter 2018), pp. 159-160 “In this fascinating book, Michael Lombardo brings renewed attention to Wynne’s life and career, situating him within the context of Progressive Era America and its tremendous transformations. […] It deserves attention from those interested in the history of Catholic thought and literary culture in the United States.” - Thomas Rzeznik, Seton Hall University, in: Jounal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2018), pp. 339-340 [DOI: ] “Lombardo’s monograph is a timely reminder of the delicate balancing act in which the American Catholic Church indulged in the years when its identity was still defined by mass immigration and of the role that churchmen like Wynne played in its development. It also serves as a corrective to accounts that continue to locate the origins of modern America Catholicism no earlier than the years immediately following the First World War.” - Jeremy Bonner, Durham University, in: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 69, No. 4 (October 2018), pp. 911-912Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Progressive Era 2. Negotiating US Identity: Progressive Era Catholicism and National Unity 3. Ever Bright Light: John Joseph Wynne, S.J. (1859–1948) 4. The Guardian of Liberty 5. The Catholic Encyclopedia 6. America Conclusion: “Vir Deo conjunctus” Bibliography

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Book SynopsisJerónimo Nadal (1507-1580) und der „verschriftlichte“ Ignatius provides an account of the life and reflection process of Nadal. Using the fully translated Chronicon Natalis as hermeneutical lens, Ignacio Ramos unveils a substantial source of the so called "Ignatian" Spirituality. In Jerónimo Nadal (1507-1580) und der „verschriftlichte“ Ignatius bringt Ignacio Ramos anhand des (übersetzten) Chronicon Natalis das Leben und Denken Nadals mit der Entstehung der sogenannten „ignatianischen" Spiritualität hermeneutisch in Verbindung.

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Book SynopsisIt is impossible to understand the early history of the Society of Jesus and the Catholic Church in China without understanding the preeminent role played by the island of Macau in the Jesuit missionary endeavor; indeed, it can even be said that Catholicism would not exist in China if there was no Macau. This book seeks to restore Macau to its proper place in the history of Catholicism and the Jesuit missions in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties by offering a unique insight into subjects ranging from the origins of Jesuit missionary work on the island to the history of Jesuit education and Catholic art and music on the Chinese mainland.Trade Review“Setting Off from Macau is a good general introduction to the spread of Christianity in China, with Kaijian’s well-documented synthesis of all the improvements and missteps of the Society of Jesus, accompanied by brief mentions of the other religious orders (Dominicans, Augustinians etc.) as well. Some of the chapters of this book deal with art (music, painting, clock manufacturing) and can be inviting even for a non-historian audience.” Elisa Frei, University of Trieste/Udine. In: Journal of Early Modern History, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2017), pp. 271-273.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Origins and Development of Catholicism in Macau during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties 2. Macau and the Spread of Catholicism in Mainland China during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties 3. Japanese Christians in Macau and the Guangdong Government’s Response 4. The Rise and Fall of Catholicism in Hainan during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties 5. Funding Jesuit Missionary Work in China during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties 6. Catholic Art in Macau and Mainland China during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties 7. Catholic Music in Macau and Mainland China during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties 8. Jesuit Clock Diplomacy and the Use of Western Clocks during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal is the first comprehensive overview of its subject in English or any language. Cardinals are best known as the pope’s electors, but in the centuries from 1400 to 1800 they were so much more: pastors, inquisitors, diplomats, bureaucrats, statesmen, saints; entrepreneurs and investors; patrons of the arts, of music, literature, and science. Thirty-five essays explain their social background, positions and roles in Rome and beyond, and what they meant for wider society. This volume shows the impact which those men who took up the purple had in their respective fields and how their tenure of office shaped the entangled histories of Rome and the Catholic Church from a European and global perspective.Trade Review“Any scholar who wishes to learn more about the early modern cardinalate and who seeks to contextualise its members within the early modern world should make use of this rich, accessible volume, whose editors should be commended.” Charles R. Keenan, University of Michigan. In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 72, No. 3 (July 2021), pp. 656–658. “This impressive tome spans the period from 1420, when the papacy returned to Rome from Avignon and the duties of cardinals began to grow exponentially, to 1800, when the role of the cardinal significantly diminished to what it is now—primarily papal elector. Other recent publications have discussed cardinals in the Middle Ages and in the 19th and 20th centuries, but this is the first comprehensive treatment of the intervening centuries. The 35 international scholarly contributors examine the social background, positions, roles, and influence of cardinals on society, politics, and their respective fields. — Summing Up: Highly recommended.” Philip E. Blosser, Sacred Heart Major Seminary. In: CHOICE Connect, Vol. 58, No. 2 (October 2020). “The individual chapters are written in an accessible manner and are suitable for the target audience of these companions—namely, both students and scholars. In a couple of cases the available source material has been described and explained, which is particularly useful for those aspiring to pursue the study of primary-source material themselves. However, since the source material is situated within a wider thematic framework, these chapters are interesting for more seasoned scholars as well. […] The present volume is a worthwhile contribution to the existing scholarship on early modern cardinals and an ideal starting point for those who want to familiarize themselves with, or broaden their understanding of, this topic.” Jaap Geraerts, Leibniz Institute of European History. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Spring 2022), pp. 310–311.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Figures and Tables  Notes on Editors and Contributors  Introduction  Mary Hollingsworth, Miles Pattenden and Arnold Witte Part 1: The Concept and Function  1 The Medieval Background to the Cardinal’s Office  Barbara Bombi  2 The College of Cardinals  Miles Pattenden  3 The Rituals of the Cardinalate: Creation and Abdication  Jennifer Mara DeSilva  4 Cardinals in Conclave  Mary Hollingsworth  5 The Cardinal Nephew  Birgit Emich Part 2: Cardinals and the Church  6 Cardinals, Bishops, and Councils  Bernward Schmidt  7 Cardinals and the Inquisition  Vincenzo Lavenia  8  Cardinal Protectors of Religious Institutions  Arnold Witte  9 Cardinals and the Apostolic Penitentiary  Kirsi Salonen  10 Cardinals and Theology  Jean-Pascal Gay Part 3: Cardinals and Secular Power  11 Cardinal Legates and Nuncios  Alexander Koller  12 Cardinal Protectors and National Interests  Bertrand Marceau  13 Cardinals as National Politicians  Joseph Bergin  14 Cardinals as Prince-Bishops  Bettina Braun Part 4: Property and Wealth  15 The Social Background and Education of Cardinals  Maria Antonietta Visceglia  16 The Cardinal’s Household  Mary Hollingsworth  17 Cardinals’ Property and Income  Lucinda Byatt  18 Cardinals’ Testaments: Piety and Charity  Fausto Nicolai Part 5: Cardinals and Rome  19 Cardinals and the Government of the Papal States  Irene Fosi  20 Cardinals and the Vacant See  John M. Hunt  21 Cardinals and Their Titular Churches  Arnold Witte  22 Cardinals’ Palaces: Architecture and Decoration  Patricia Waddy Part 6: Cardinals and Mission  23 Cardinals and the Non-Christian World  Miles Pattenden  24 Cardinals and the Greek and Eastern Churches  Camille Rouxpetel  25 Cardinals and the Creation of the Spanish Americas  Luis Martínez Ferrer  26 Cardinals and the Congregation of the Propaganda Fide  Giovanni Pizzorusso Part 7: Cardinals and Literature  27 The Early Modern Historiography of Early Modern Cardinals  Miles Pattenden and Arnold Witte  28 Treatises on the Ideal Cardinal  David S. Chambers  29 Life-Writing and the Saintly Cardinal  Pamela M. Jones  30 Cardinals and the Culture of Libraries and Learning  Maria Pia Donato Part 8: Cardinals and the Visual Arts  31 Cardinals as Patrons of the Visual Arts  Piers Baker-Bates, Mary Hollingsworth and Arnold Witte  32 The Cardinal’s Wardrobe  CarolM.Richardson  33 Portraits of Early Modern Cardinals  Clare Robertson  34 Cardinals’ Tombs  Philipp Zitzlsperger  35 Cardinals, Music, and Theatre  Franco Piperno  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThe volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, geographical, social, and cultural perspectives. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, this volume is available in Open Access.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Robert Aleksander Maryks 1 Francesco Benci and the Origins of Jesuit Neo-Latin Epic Paul Gwynne 2 Exploring the Distinctiveness of Neo-Latin Jesuit Didactic Poetry in Naples: The Case of Nicolò Partenio Giannettasio Claudia Schindler 3 Civic Education on Stage: Civic Values and Virtues in the Jesuit Schools of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Jolanta Rzegocka 4 “Ask the Jesuits to Send Verses from Rome”: The Society’s Networks and the European Dissemination of Devotional Music Daniele V. Filippi 5 Priestly Violence, Martyrdom, and Jesuits: The Case of Diego de Alfaro, S.J. (Paraguay 1639) Andrew Redden 6 Colonial Theodicy and the Jesuit Ascetic Ideal in José de Acosta’s Works on Spanish America Bryan Green 7 Purple Silk and Black Cotton: Francisco Cabral, S.J., and the Negotiation of Jesuit Attire in Japan (1570–73) Linda Zampol D’Ortia 8 Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Vida del P. Ignacio de Loyola (1583) and Literary Culture in Early Modern Spain Rady Roldán-Figueroa 9 The Distinctiveness of the Society of Jesus’s Mission in Pedro de Ribadeneyra S.J.’s Historia ecclesiástica del schisma del Reyno de Inglaterra (1588) Spencer J. Weinreich 10 Discerning Skills: Psychological Insight at the Core of Jesuit Identity Cristiano Casalini 11 Distinctive Contours of Jesuit Enlightenment in France Jeffrey D. Burson 12 One Century of Science: The Jesuit Journal Brotéria (1902–2002) Francisco Malta Romeiras and Henrique Leitão Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEarly Modern English Catholicism: Identity, Memory and Counter-Reformation brings together leading scholars in the field to explore the interlocking relationship between the key themes of identity, memory and Counter-Reformation and to assess the way the three themes shaped English Catholicism in the early modern period. The collection takes a long-term view of the historical development of English Catholicism and encompasses the English Catholic diaspora to demonstrate the important advances that have been made in the study of English Catholicism c.1570–1800. The interdisciplinary collection brings together scholars from history, literary, and art history backgrounds. Consisting of eleven essays and an afterword by the late John Bossy, the book underlines the significance of early modern English Catholicism as a contributor to national and European Counter-Reformation culture.Trade Review“A rewarding collection of essays.” Peter Marshall, University of Warwick. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 1 (January 2019), pp. 188-190. “the collection reflects the growing prominence of early modern Catholic history in the British and European historiography and would be relevant to anyone interested in the social and cultural history of Catholicism.” Eilish Gregory, University College London. In: The English Historical Review, Vol. 134, No. 566 (February 2019), pp. 206-208.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction James E. Kelly and Susan Royal Part I: Identity 1. Situating Early Modern English Catholicism Brad S. Gregory 2. Creating an English Catholic Identity: Relics, Martyrs and English Women Religious in Counter-Reformation Europe James E. Kelly 3. A British Catholic Community? Ethnicity, Identity and Recusant Politics, 1660–1750 Gabriel Glickman 4. ‘Libera nos Domine?’ The Vicars Apostolic and the Suppressed/Restored English Province of the Society of Jesus Thomas M. McCoog, SJ Part II: Memory 5. ‘Attend to Me’: Julian of Norwich, Margaret Gascoigne and Textual Circulation among the Cambrai Benedictines Jaime Goodrich 6. English Catholics and English Heretics: The Lollards and Anti-Heresy Writing in Early Modern England Susan Royal 7. Joseph Reeve, SJ, the Park at Ugbrooke and the Cliffords of Chudleigh Matthew J. Martin Part III: Counter-Reformation 8. Underground Networks, Prisons and the Circulation of Counter-Reformation Books in Elizabethan England Earle Havens and Elizabeth Patton 9. The Gospel, Liturgy and Controversy in the 1590s: Thomas Stapleton’s Promptuaria William J. Sheils 10. Praying the Counter-Reformation Eamon Duffy 11. John Austin’s Devotions: Voicing Lyric, Voicing Prayer Susannah B. Monta Afterword John Bossy Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and experience throughout the early modern world. The contributions to this book, which deal with themes dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, tell of the intimate relationship between humans and the sacred within the walls of the home. The volume demonstrates that the home cannot be studied in isolation: the sixteen essays, that encompass religious history, the histories of art and architecture, material culture, literary history, and social and cultural history, instead point individually and collectively to the porosity of the home and its connectedness with other institutions and broader communities. Contributors: Dotan Arad, Kathleen Ashley, Martin Christ, Hildegard Diemberger, Marco Faini, Suzanna Ivanič, Debra Kaplan, Marion H. Katz, Soyeon Kim, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Borja Franco Llopis, Alessia Meneghin, Francisco J. Moreno Díaz del Campo, Cristina Osswald, Kathleen M. Ryor, Igor Sosa Mayor, Hanneke van Asperen, Torsten Wollina, and Jungyoon Yang.Trade Review“Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World offers an array of impressive research that will prove enriching to all scholars of early modern history.” Gary Gibbs, Roanoke College. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Fall 2021), pp. 1023–1025.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Figures and Tables Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction  Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin Part 1: Complicating the Sacred Space: Private and Public 1 The Brazilian House in the Eighteenth Century: Devotion at Home  Cristina Osswald 2 When the Home Becomes a Shrine: Public Prayers in Private Houses among the Ottoman Jews  Dotan Arad Part 2: Confessional Confrontation 3 Psalm-Singing at Home: The Case of Etienne Mathieu, a Burgundian Protestant  Kathleen Ashley 4 Between Domestic and Public: Johann Leisentrit’s (1527–1586) Instructions for the Sick and Dying of Upper Lusatia  Martin Christ 5 The Moriscos’ Artistic Domestic Devotions Viewed through Christian Eyes in Early Modern Iberia  Borja Franco Llopis and Francisco Javier Moreno Díaz del Campo 6 The Unwritten Ritual: The Duality of Religion in Sixteenth-Century Chosŏn Korea  Soyeon Kim Part 3: Family Life 7 Between Home and Sufi Convent: Devotional Book Use in Early Modern Damascus  Torsten Wollina 8 Commemoration of the Prophet’s Birthday as a Domestic Ritual in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Damascus  Marion H. Katz 9 Prayers at the Nuptial Bed: Spiritual Guidance on Consummation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Epithalamia  Jungyoon Yang Part 4: The Materiality of Devotion 10 Amulets and the Material Interface of Beliefs in Seventeenth-Century Prague Burgher Homes  Suzanna Ivanič 11 Experimenting with Relics: Laypeople, Knowledge and Relics in Seventeenth-Century Spain  Igor Sosa Mayor 12 Style as Substance: Literary Ink Painting and Buddhist Practice in Late Ming Dynasty China  Kathleen M. Ryor Part 5: Prayer and Meditation 13 ‘Thou Hast Made this Bed Thine Altar’: John Donne’s Sheets  Hester Lees-Jeffries 14 The Book as Shrine, the Badge as Bookmark: Religious Badges and Pilgrims’ Souvenirs in Devotional Manuscripts  Hanneke van Asperen Part 6: Gendering Devotion 15 Living Spaces, Communal Places: Early Modern Jewish Homes and Religious Devotions  Debra Kaplan 16 Birth, Death and Reincarnation in the Life of a Fifteenth-Century Tibetan Princess  Hildegard Diemberger Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisDomestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy illuminates the vibrancy of spiritual beliefs and practices which profoundly shaped family life in this era. Scholarship on Catholicism has tended to focus on institutions, but the home was the site of religious instruction and reading, prayer and meditation, communal worship, multi-sensory devotions, contemplation of religious images and the performance of rituals, as well as extraordinary events such as miracles. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this volume affirms the central place of the household to spiritual life and reveals the myriad ways in which devotion met domestic needs. The seventeen essays encompass religious history, the histories of art and architecture, material culture, musicology, literary history, and social and cultural history. Contributors are Erminia Ardissino, Michele Bacci, Michael J. Brody, Giorgio Caravale, Maya Corry, Remi Chiu, Sabrina Corbellini, Stefano Dall’Aglio, Marco Faini, Iain Fenlon, Irene Galandra Cooper, Jane Garnett, Joanna Kostylo, Alessia Meneghin, Margaret A. Morse, Elisa Novi Chavarria, Gervase Rosser, Zuzanna Sarnecka, Katherine Tycz, and Valeria Viola.Trade Review“This volume makes a substantial contribution to the redefinition of religious identities in early modern Italy […] The volume excels at challenging the enduring notion of an evenly shared Catholic religiosity, administered and regulated rigorously through institutions. The early modern household, so well presented here, reveals itself to be a complex network of devotions and cults, mixing vivid images and icons with pouches of seeds, holy scrolls, herbs, rosaries, and, most importantly, ideas.” Marco Piana, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts in Renaissance and Reformation 42.3Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction  Maya Corry, Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin Part 1: The Unbounded Nature of Domestic Space 1 Singing on the Street and in the Home in Times of Pestilence: Lessons from the 1576–78 Plague of Milan  Remi Chiu 2 The Ex Voto between Domestic and Public Space: From Personal Testimony to Collective Memory  Jane Garnett and Gervase Rosser 3 Spaces for Domestic Devotion in the Noble Residences of Palermo in the Age of Catholic Reform  Valeria Viola 4 Music and Domestic Devotion in the Age of Reform  Iain Fenlon Part 2: Domesticating the Divine 5 Domestic Portraiture in Early Modern Venice: Devotion to Family and Faith  Margaret A. Morse 6 Domestic Religion and Connected Spaces: Isabella della Rovere, Princess of Bisignano (1552–1619)  Elisa Novi Chavarria 7 “And the Word Dwelt amongst Us”: Experiencing the Nativity in the Italian Renaissance Home  Zuzanna Sarnecka Part 3: The Materiality of Devotion 8 Religious Subjects on Sixteenth-Century Deruta Piatti da Pompa  Michael J. Brody 9 Investigating the ‘Case’ of the Agnus Dei in Sixteenth-Century Italian Homes  Irene Galandra Cooper 10 Material Prayers and Maternity in Early Modern Italy: Signed, Sealed, Delivered  Katherine M. Tycz 11 Devotional Panels as Sites of Intercultural Exchange  Michele Bacci Part 4: Prayer and Meditation 12 Creating Domestic Sacred Space: Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy  Sabrina Corbellini 13 Delight in Painted Companions: Shaping the Soul from Birth in Early Modern Italy  Maya Corry 14 Literary and Visual Forms of a Domestic Devotion: The Rosary in Renaissance Italy  Erminia Ardissino Part 5: Conflict and Control 15 Domestic Prayers and Miracles in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Savonarola and His Cult  Stefano Dall’Aglio 16 Private and Public Devotion in Late Renaissance Italy: The Role of Church Censorship  Giorgio Caravale 17 Contested Devotions: Space, Identities and Religious Dissent in the Apothecary’s Home  Joanna Kostylo Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisForming Catholic Communities assesses the histories of Irish, English and Scots colleges established abroad in the early-modern period for Catholic students. The contributions provide a co-ordinated series of case studies which reflect the most up-to-date research on the colleges. The essays address interactions with European states, international networking, educational frameworks, financial challenges, print culture and institutional survival into the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. From these essays, the colleges emerge as unexpectedly complex institutions. With their financial, pastoral, and intellectual networks, they provided an educational infrastructure that, whatever its short-comings, remained crucial to the domestic and international communities they served during more than two centuries.Trade Review“the editors have produced a volume which provides a series of insights into a phenomenon of genuine importance to British and Irish Catholicism.” Tadhg O' hAnnrachain, University College, Dublin. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 1 (January 2019), p. 193.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction  Liam Chambers and Thomas O’Connor Part 1: Patronage and Service 1 Irish Collegians in Spanish Service (1560–1803)  Thomas O’Connor 2 Seraphic Sparks: The Irish Franciscan and Capuchin Colleges on the Continent  Mícheál Mac Craith 3 Pietas Austriaca and ‘Dispensers of Royal Authority’: The Early Irish Colleges and Habsburg Cultural Strategies  Declan M. Downey Part 2: Migration and Schooling 4 ‘Bullworks against the furie of heresie’: Identity, Education, and Mission in the English Jesuit College of St Omers  Jan Graffius 5 The English Benedictines in Eighteenth-Century Lorraine  Frédéric Richard-Maupillier Part 3: Faction and Finance 6 The Spanish Court, Ecclesiastical Patronage, and the Irish College of Santiago de Compostela (1611–17)  Ciaran O’Scea 7 The Early Failures of the Irish College Rome, 1628–78  Matteo Binasco 8 Financial Mismanagement at the Irish College, 1772–98  Christopher Korten Part 4: Print and Culture 9 English Recusant Controversy in Spanish Print Culture: Dissemination, Popularisation, Fictionalisation  Ana Sáez-Hidalgo 10 Creating an Irish Identity: Print, Culture, and the Irish Franciscans of Louvain  Marc Caball Part 5: Afterlives – Surviving the Nineteenth Century 11 The ‘British Establishments’, the Irish College in Paris and Restoration France, 1814–30  Liam Chambers 12 The Trouble with France: Making Scots Priests in France, 1818–78  Iida Saarinen 13 The Transformation of the Irish College, Paris: War, Education, and Administration, 1870–1918  Justin Dolan Stover Index

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Book SynopsisIn Applied Emblems in the Cathedral of Lugo, Carme López Calderón explores the emblematic programme found in the Chapel of Nuestra Señora de los Ojos Grandes (Galicia, Spain), consisting of fifty-eight emblems painted c. 1735. Making use of a wide range of printed sources, the author delves into the meaning of each emblem and provides an all-encompassing interpretation of this cycle, which can rightly be described as the richest and most complete programme of Marian applied emblematics in the Iberian Peninsula.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Note on Citation and Translation Introduction 1 Emblematics and Mariology 2 Emblematic Sources for the Chapel  1 Pancarpium marianum (Antuerpiae, 1607)  2 Schola cordis (Antuerpiae, 1629)  3 Mundus symbolicus (Coloniae Agrippinae, 1681)  4 Tractatus moralis (Gandavi, 1660) and Rosa laureada entre los santos (Madrid, 1670) 3 The Paintings Inspired by the Pancarpium Marianum  1 The Scriptural Titles of Mary 4 Further Play on Sacred Emblematics  1 The Excellences of Mary  2 The Perfection of the Faithful through the Schola Cordis 5 Suggested Reading: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in the Service of Marian Devotion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInquisitions of heresy have long fascinated both specialists and non-specialists. A Companion to Heresy Inquisitions presents a synthesis of the immense amount of scholarship generated about these institutions in recent years. The volume offers an overview of many of the most significant areas of heresy inquisitions, both medieval and early modern. The essays in this collection are intended to introduce the reader to disagreements and advances in the field, as well as providing a navigational aid to the wide variety of recent discoveries and controversies in studies of heresy inquisitions. Contributors: Christine Ames, Feberico Barbierato, Elena Bonora, Lúcia Helena Costigan, Michael Frassetto, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Helen Rawlings, Lucy Sackville, Werner Thomas, and Robin VoseTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Donald S. Prudlo Part 1: Origins of Inquisitions of Heretical Depravity  1 The Spiritual Foundations of Christian Heresy Inquisitions  Christine Caldwell Ames  2 Precursors to Religious Inquisitions: Anti-Heretical efforts to 1184  Michael Frassetto Part 2: Medieval Inquisitions  3 The Fourth Lateran Ordo of Inquisition Adapted to the Prosecution of Heresy  Henry Ansgar Kelly  4 The Church’s Institutional Response to Heresy in the 13th Century  Lucy Sackville  5 Heresy Inquisitions in the Later Middle Ages  Robin Vose Part 3: The Iberian Inquisitions  6 The Spanish Inquisition and the Converso Challenge (c.1480–1525): A Question of Race, Religion or Socio-Political Ascendancy?  Helen Rawlings  7 The Metamorphosis of the Spanish Inquisition, 1520–1648  Werner Thomas  8 The Rise of the Modern Inquisition in Portugal and Brazil, and the Transformation of Jews and New Christians into Heretics  Lúcia Helena Costigan Part 4: The Italian Inquisitions  9 The Takeover of the Roman Inquisition  Elena Bonora  10 Politics, Diplomacy and Religious Dissent. The Activity of the Inquisition in Early Modern Venice  Federico Barbierato  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThe Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a key figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his order forced Hell to develop ingenious strategies of accommodation to changing international and domestic circumstances. Through a study of his career in local, regional, imperial, and global contexts, this book sheds new light on the complex relationship between the Enlightenment, Catholicism, administrative and academic reform in the Habsburg monarchy, and the practices and ends of cultivating science in the Republic of Letters around the end of the first era of the Society of Jesus.Trade Review“This book is a careful and valuable source for historians of science interested in ways in which the Enlightenment affected the practice of science in the more remote lands of the Habsburg empire.” J. L. Heilbron, University of California–Berkeley. In: Church History, Vol. 89, No. 4 (December 2020), pp. 953–955. “Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe is a valuable contribution that provides an impressive account of the neglected aspects of the East Central European Enlightenment.” Tibor Bodnár-Király, Eötvös Loránd University. In: Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. 52 (2021), pp. 15–16. “This monograph is essential for any study of the history of European astronomy and of Jesuit science.” Agustín Udías, Universidad Complutense. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (December 2020), pp. 111–113. “Hell’s vitriolic responses to public criticism, the familiar stereotype of the dissembling Jesuit, and the implosion and suppression of the Order in 1773 [...] undermined his reputation. While not formulated as a rehabilitation, Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe undoes much of that damage, showing the attractive aspects of this figure — as, for instance, his collaboration with the gifted painter Caspar Franz Sambach — and the considerable constraints under which Hell worked. Of particular value is the sustained and enlightening comparison of the Jesuits and their curious double, the Freemasons.” Eileen Reeves, Princeton. In: Isis, Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 2021), pp. 607–609.Table of Contents Acknowledgments  List of Illustrations  Bibliographic Abbreviations  Introduction  1 Enlightenment(s)  2 Catholic Enlightenment—Enlightenment Catholicism  3 The Society of Jesus and Jesuit Science  4 What’s in a Life? 1 Shafts and Stars, Crafts and Sciences: The Making of a Jesuit Astronomer in the Habsburg Provinces  1 A Regional Life World  2 Turbulent Times and an Immigrant Family around the Mines  3 Apprenticeship  4 Professor on the Frontier 2 Metropolitan Lures: Enlightened and Jesuit Networks, and a New Node of Science  1 An Agenda for Astronomic Advance  2 Science in the City and in the World: Hell and the respublica astronomica 3 A New Node of Science in Action: The 1761 Transit of Venus and Hell’s Transition to Fame  1 A Golden Opportunity  2 An Imperial Astronomer’s Network Displayed  3 Lessons Learned  4 “Quonam autem fructu?” Taking Stock 4 The North Beckons: “A desperate voyage by desperate persons”  1 Scandinavian Self-Assertions  2 The Invitation from Copenhagen: Providence and Rhetoric  3 From Vienna to Vardø 5 He Came, He Saw, He Conquered? The Expeditio litteraria ad Polum Arcticum  1 A Journey Finished and Yet Unfinished  2 Enigmas of the Northern Sky and Earth  3 On Hungarians and Laplanders  4 Authority Crumbling 6 “Tahiti and Vardø will be the two columns […]”: Observing Venus and Debating the Parallax  1 Mission Accomplished  2 Accomplishment Contested  3 A Peculiar Nachleben 7 Disruption of Old Structures  1 Habsburg Centralization and the De-centering of Hell  2 Critical Publics: Vienna, Hungary  3 Ex-Jesuit Astronomy: Institutions and Trajectories 8 Coping with Enlightenments  1 Viennese Struggles  2 Redefining the Center  Conclusion: Borders and Crossings  Appendix 1Map of the Austrian Province of the Society of Jesus, with Glossary of Geographic Names  Appendix 2Instruction for the Imperial and Royal Astronomer Maximilian Hell, S.J.  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisCatholicism is generally over-institutionalized and over-centralized in comparison to other religions. However, it finds itself in an increasingly interrelated and globalized world and is therefore immersed in a great plurality of social realities. The Changing Faces of Catholicism assembles an international cast of contributors to explore the consequent decline of powerful Catholic organisations as well as to address the responses and resistance efforts that specific countries have taken to counteract the secularization crisis in both Europe and the Americas. It reveals some of the strategies of the Catholic Church as a whole, and of the Vatican centre in particular, to address problems of the global era through the dissemination of spiritually progressive writing, World Youth Days, and the transformation of Catholic education to become a forum for intercultural and interreligious dialogue. The volume also reflects on the adaptation of Catholic institutions and missions as sponsored by religious communities and monastic orders.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction to The Changing Faces of Catholicism  Solange Lefebvre and Alfonso Pérez-Agote Part 1: Catholicism in Both Catholic and Pluralistic Societies 1 Religion and National Identity in Catholic Societies: The Quarrel between Religion and Culture  Jean-François Laniel 2 Popular Religiosity and Value Changes in Mexico City Youth  Jesús Antonio Serrano Sánchez, Ramiro Gómez-Arzápalo and Alejandro Gabriel Emiliano Flores 3 From a Place of Popular Religiosity to a Transnational Space of Multiple Meanings and Religious Interactions  Helena Vilaça 4 Cultural Catholics in the United States  Tricia C. Bruce Part 2: Strategies within Specific Countries to Counteract the Secularization Crisis 5 Occupying the Margins of Society: Operationalizing Minority Identity Politics among Youth within the Catholic New Evangelization  Paul L. Gareau 6 Catholic Reconquest: The Case of the Sainte Blandine Megachurch in Lyon  Valérie Aubourg 7 The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (ccr) in the Americas  Andrea Althoff and Jakob Egeris Thorsen 8 Religious Practices, Beliefs and Commitments on the Margins of the Catholic Church in Belgium  Karel Dobbelaere and Liliane Voyé Part 3: Strategies and General Attitudes of the Catholic Church, and of the Vatican Centre in Particular,in Relation to Problems of the Global Era 9 Catholicism and Eastern Religions: Spiritual Innovators and Interreligious Dialogue (de Mello and Merton)  Andrew P. Lynch 10 Religion in a Globalized Culture: Institutional Innovation and Continuity of Catholicism—The Case of World Youth Day  Sławomir Mandes and Wojciech Sadłoń 11 The Joy of Dialogue in an Intercultural World: Educational Implications from Evangelii Gaudium  Graham P. McDonough Part 4: Changes in Specific Catholic Institutions 12 Navigating the Fault Lines of Catholic Institutional Identity  Kevin Ahern 13 The Economy of Stability in Catholic Monasteries in the Czech Republic and Austria  Barbora Spalová and Isabelle Jonveaux Index

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Book SynopsisHoly Organ or Unholy Idol? focuses on the significance of the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its accompanying imagery in eighteenth-century New Spain. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank considers paintings, prints, devotional texts, and archival sources within the Mexican context alongside issues and debates occurring in Europe to situate the New Spanish cult within local and global developments. She examines the iconography of these religious images and frames them within broader socio-political and religious discourses related to the Eucharist, the sun, the Jesuits, scientific and anatomical ideas, and mysticism. Images of the Heart helped to champion the cult’s validity as it was attacked by religious reformers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Shaping the Devotion 2 Matters of the Heart 3 Reading, Meditating, Fixating 4 The Eucharistic Heart 5 Christ’s Heart as the Sacramented Sun 6 Divine Champions 7 Politicizing the Heart after 1767 Conclusion: Forming a New History of the Sacred Heart Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMedicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and nuanced account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions in shaping medical learning and practice in the period from 1500 to 1850. Until now, learned medicine has remained a secondary subject in scholarship on Inquisitions. This volume delves into physicians’ contributions to the inquisitorial machinery as well as the persecution of medical practitioners and the censorship of books of medicine. Although they are commonly depicted as all-pervasive systems of repression, the Inquisitions emerge from these essays as complex institutions. Authors investigate how boundaries between the medical and the religious were negotiated and transgressed in different contexts. The book sheds new light on the intellectual and social world of early modern physicians, paying particular attention to how they complied with, and at times undermined, ecclesiastical control and the hierarchies of power in which the medical profession was embedded. Contributors are Hervé Baudry, Bradford A. Bouley, Alessandra Celati, Maria Pia Donato, Martha Few, Guido M. Giglioni, Andrew Keitt, Hannah Marcus, and Timothy D. Walker. This volume includes the articles originally published in Volume XXIII, Nos. 1-2 (2018) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine with one additional chapter by Timothy D. Walker and an updated introduction.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Medicine and the Inquisition in the Early Modern World: Introduction  Maria Pia Donato The Mind of the Censor: Girolamo Rossi, a Physician and Censor for the Congregation of the Index  Hannah Marcus The Heart of Heresy: Inquisition, Medicine, and False Sanctity  Bradford A. Bouley Anatomy of a Scandal: Physicians Facing the Inquisition in Late Seventeenth-Century Rome  Maria Pia Donato Contra medicos: Physicians Facing the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Venice  Alessandra Celati Medicine and the Inquisition in Portugal (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries): People and Books  Hervé Baudry Between Galen and St Paul: How Juan Huarte de San Juan Responded to Inquisitorial Censorship  Guido Giglioni Medical Martyrs: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Early Modern Inquisitorial Persecution of Spanish Physicians  Andrew Keitt “Speaking with the Fire”: The Inquisition Confronts Mesoamerican Divination to Treat Child Illness in Sixteenth-Century Guatemala  Martha Few Physicians and Surgeons in the Service of the Portuguese Inquisition: Twelve Years After  Timothy D. Walker Index

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Book Synopsis‘Quid est sacramentum?’ Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700 investigates how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature such as catechisms, prayerbooks, meditative treatises, and emblem books, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700. The contributors ask why the mysteries of faith and, in particular, sacramental mysteries were construed as amenable to processes of representation and figuration, and why the resultant images were thought capable of engaging mortal eyes, minds, and hearts. Mysteries by their very nature appeal to the spirit, rather than to sense or reason, since they operate beyond the limitations of the human faculties; and yet, the visual and literary arts served as vehicles for the dissemination of these mysteries and for prompting reflection upon them. Contributors: David Areford, AnnMarie Micikas Bridges, Mette Birkedal Bruun, James Clifton, Anna Dlabačková, Wim François, Robert Kendrick, Aiden Kumler, Noria Litaker, Walter S. Melion, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Elizabeth Pastan, Donna Sadler, Alexa Sand, Tanya Tiffany, Lee Palmer Wandel, Geert Warner, Bronwen Wilson, and Elliott Wise.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Quid est sacramentum?: Introduction  Walter S. Melion Part 1: Representing the Sacraments 2 Counterfeiting the Eucharist in Late Medieval Life and Art  Aden Kumler 3 Vestments in the Mass  Lee Palmer Wandel 4 ‘In the Flesh a Mirror of Spiritual Blessings’: Calvin’s Defence of the Lord’s Supper as a Visual Accommodation  AnnMarie M. Bridges 5 ‘Mystery’ or ‘Sacrament’: Ephesians 5:32, the Sacrament of Marriage in Early Modern Biblical Scholarship, and Nicolas Poussin’s Visual Exegesis  Wim François 6 Hoc Est Corpus Meum: Whole-Body Catacomb Saints and Eucharistic Doctrine in Baroque Bavaria  Noria K. Litaker 7 Staging Sacramental Consolation in Vienna  Robert L. Kendrick Part 2: Sacramental Modes of Representation 8 Seeing beyond Signs: Allegorical Explanations of the Mass in Medieval Dutch Literature  Anna Dlabačová 9 Representing Architecture in the Altarpiece: Fictions, Strategies, and Mysteries  Elizabeth Carson Pastan 10 Orchestrating Polyphony at the Altar: Passion Altarpieces in Late Medieval France  Donna L. Sadler 11 God’s Design: Painting and Piety in the Vida of Estefanía de la Encarnación (ca. 1597–1665)  Tanya J. Tiffany 12 Amber, Blood, and the Holy Face of Jesus: the Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Bruges  Elliott D. Wise and Matthew Havili 13 Anchoring the Appearance of the Sacred: the Abbot of Choisy & His Translation of the Imitatio Christi (1692)  Lars Cyril Nørgaard 14 Spiritual and Material Conversions: Federico Barocci’s Christ and Mary Magdalene  Bronwen Wilson Part 3: Representing Divine Presence and the Mysteries of Faith 15 The Fine Art of Dying: Envisioning Death in the Somme le Roi Tradition  Alexa Sand 16 Christ Child Creator  David S. Areford 17 Lady Scripture’s Sacred Commitments: Dialogic Understanding in Dutch Religious Literature of the Late Fifteenth Century  Geert Warnar 18 Coemeterium Schola: the Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David, S.J.’s Veridicus Christianus  Walter S. Melion 19 The Limits of ‘Mute Theology’: Charles Le Brun’s Lecture on Nicolas Poussin’s Ecstasy of Saint Paul Revisited  James Clifton 20 A Private Mystery: Looking at Philippe de Champaigne’s Annunciation for the Hôtel de Chavigny  Mette Birkedal Bruun Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisScorsese and Religion concerns the religious vision of the great American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Not only will this volume explore the foundation of Scorsese’s interest in religion—namely, his relation to the Catholic Church—but it will also highlight the religious breadth of Scorsese’s corpus. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that Scorsese’s cinematic “re-presentation” of reality brings together various religious influences (Catholicism, existentialism, Buddhism, etc.) and topics such as violence, morality, nihilism, and so on. The overarching claim is that Scorsese, who indeed once claimed that his “whole life” had been “movies and religion,” cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways in which his religious interests are expressed in and through his art.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston Part 1: Scorsese and Catholicism  1 The Catholic Scorsese – or How a Seminarian Turned to the Movies  Marc Raymond  2 No Way Out: Martin Scorsese and the Ecclesial Imagination  Guerric DeBona,osb Part 2: Religious Influences and Themes in Scorsese’s Cinema  3 Dostoevskian Elements in Scorsese’s Cinema  Christopher B. Barnett  4 The Problem of Violence in Scorsese’s Films: The Catholic Gangster as Tragic Hero  John McAteer  5 Violence and Redemption in Scorsese’s Films: A Girardian Reading  Cari Myers  6 Scorsese as a Critic of Modernity: The Woman Question  M. Gail Hamner Part 3: Scorsese and Religion: A Selective Filmography  7 The Last Temptation of Christ: Scorsese’s Jesus among Ordinary Saints  Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch  8 Scorsese’s Kundun as Catholic Encounter with the Dalai Lama and His Tibetan Dharma  Kerry P.C. San Chirico  9 Pity and Pardon in Scorsese’s Palimpsest, Bringing Out the Dead  Gerard Loughlin  10 Martin Scorsese’s Screening Room: Theatricality, Psychoanalysis, and Modernity in Shutter Island  Stephen Mulhall  11 Reinventing Human Experience: Hugo and the Theological Possibilities of Film  Clark J. Elliston  12 The Wolf of Wall Street and Economic Nihilism  D. Stephen Long  13 The Global Afterlives of Silence  Darren J.N. Middleton and Mark W. Dennis  Index of Bible References  Index of Names and Subjects

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Book SynopsisOld Catholic theology is the theology that is characteristic of the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht. Old Catholic Theology: An Introduction, authored by Peter-Ben Smit, an acknowledged expert in the field, outlines the main characteristics of and influences on Old Catholic theology, as well as the extant ecumenical relationships of the Old Catholic Churches. In doing so, it covers what may be called 'mainstream' Old Catholic theology, while also discussing the diversity within the Old Catholic tradition. Particular attention is given to the Old Catholic approach to theology in general and to ecclesiology, sacramental theology and ecumenical theology in particular. Further foci include the version of communio-theology, the appertaining sacramental understanding of the church, the inherent connection between theology and (liturgical) spirituality, the distinct branch of communal hermeneutics and the understanding of the appeal to the early Church that Old Catholic theologians developed in the course of the 20th century.

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Book SynopsisIn Rome, where strategies to re-establish Roman Catholic orthodoxy were formulated, the problem of how to deal with foreigners and particularly with ‘heretics’ coming from Northern Europe was an important priority throughout the early modern period. Converting foreigners had a special significance for the Papacy. This volume, which includes several case studies, explores the meaning of conversion and the changes of policy adopted by the church bodies set up to protect orthodoxy. It uses inquisitorial documents (from Archivio della Congregazione per la dottrina della Fede) and sources from other archives and libraries, both in Rome and elsewhere. This book is an updated and revised translation of Convertire lo straniero (Viella, 2011), including a bibliography reflecting the most recent scholarship on its subject.Table of ContentsContents Introduction. Winds of the North 1 Rome, a Patria Comune?  1 Rules and Procedures: Defining the Foreigner  2 Religious Identity  3 Protection, Integration, Exclusion: National Confraternities, Hospices and Colleges  4 Conversions and Reconquests: The Venerable English College in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 2 Not Only Pilgrims: Reception and Conversion  1 Conversion and the Holy Years  2 Abjuring Heresy and Creating a New Identity  3 Clement VIII’s “Womb of Paternal Compassion”  4 Rome, a Den of Spies 3 Cristoforo Gaspare Fischer: a Goldsmith, his Inheritance and the Inquisition  1 Cristoforo “Piscator aurifex in Urbe”  2 Between Nuremberg and Rome  3 Lengthy Negotiations and Powerful Intermediaries 4 Johannes Faber, “One of Italy’s Seven Sages”  1 Johannes Faber’s Roman Career  2 “Acquiring the Souls of Others”  3 Friends and Compatriots  4 Echoes of War  5 A Dubious Reputation 5 Guillaume Reboul: a Troublesome Convert  1 A Restless Pamphleteer  2 Rivalry and “loathing”  3 Between Paris and Rome 6 Unsettling Mobility: Foreign Heretics in Italy  1 The Inquisitor’s Doubts  2 Merchants in the Duchies of Mantua and Savoy  3 At the Border of the Papal States  4 From Leghorn to Florence by Way of Siena  5 Naples: a Port City 7 Between Intransigence and Tolerance  1 Alexander VII: New Conversion Politics  2 Difficult Control  3 A Cultural Conversion Project  4 The Heretic’s Language 8 Petitions, Enclosures, Burials  1 Petitions and Intermediaries  2 Enclosing: the Ospizio Apostolico dei Convertendi  3 Burials  4 Onward to the Eighteenth Century  5 Exiled Princes, Traveling Princes Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisQuid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 is the companion volume to Intersections 65.1, Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700. Whereas the latter volume focused on sacramental mysteries, the current one examines a wider range of secret subjects. The book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it. In the early modern period, the discursive and symbolical sites for the representation of secrets were closely related to epistemic changes that transformed conceptions of the transmissibility of knowledge. Contributors: Monika Biel, Alicja Bielak, C. Jean Campbell, Tom Conley, Ralph Dekoninck, Peter G.F. Eversmann, Ingrid Falque, Agnès Guiderdoni, Koenraad Jonckheere, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Stephanie Leitch, Carme López Calderón, Mark A. Meadow, Walter S. Melion, Eelco Nagelsmit, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Alexandra Onuf, Bret L. Rothstein, Xavier Vert, Madeleine C. Viljoen, Mara R. Wade, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Caecilie Weissert.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: What’s in a Secret?  Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, and Walter S. Melion part 1: The Spiritual locus of Secret 1 In the Secrecy of the Cell: Late Medieval Carthusian Devotional Imagery and Meditative Practices in the Low Countries  Ingrid Falque 2 Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as Artisans of the Heart and Soul in Manuscript MPM R 35 Vita S. Ioseph beatissimae Virginis sponsi of ca. 1600  Walter S. Melion 3 Symbols and (Un)concealed Marian Mysteries in the First Litany of Loreto Illustrated with Emblems: Peter Stoergler’s Asma Poeticum (Linz, 1636)  Carme López Calderón 4 ‘Teach Me, Reveal the Secret to My Heart’: the Role of a Spiritual Guide in the Meditative Works of Marcin Hińcza  Alicja Bielak part 2: Science and Secrecy 5 Of Grids and Divine Mystery: Gerard Mercator’s Revelation  Lee Palmer Wandel 6 What Did They See?: Science and Religion in the Anatomical Theatres of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  Peter G.F. Eversmann part 3: The Secret in Matter 7 The Sienese Goldsmith and the Secrets of Florentine Disegno  C. Jean Campbell 8 An Open and Shut Case: On the Dialectic of Secrecy and Access in the Early-Modern Kunstkammer  Mark A. Meadow 9 Mysterious Noises: Orphic Strings, Rough Music, and the Sounds of Early Modern Ornament Prints  Madeleine C. Viljoen 10 ‘Insettinghe’ and ‘yegelijcx conversatie’: Understanding of the Image on the Eve of Baroque  Koenraad Jonckheere 11 Roger de Piles and the Secret of Grace  Caecilie Weissert part 4: Secrecy and Sanctity: Negotiating Secular and Sacred Registers of the Secret 12 In Abscondito: Visuality and Testimony in Raphael’s Transfiguration  Xavier Vert 13 Secrets of the Dark: Rembrandt’s Entombment (c. 1654)  Alexandra Onuf 14 Poussin and Richeome: Mystery and Figurability  Ralph Dekoninck 15 Portrait or Parable?: Pierre Mignard and the Mystery of Madame de Maintenon  Eelco Nagelsmit & Lars Cyril Nørgaard part 5: Secrets of the Ars symbolica: Emblems and Enigmas 16 Secret est à louer: Secrets and Secrecy in French Baroque Cartography, 1580–1640  Tom Conley 17 Hidden in Plain Sight: Melchior Lorck’s Emblematized Adages  Mara R. Wade 18 To Hide is to Reveal: the Paradox of Representing Secrets  Agnès Guiderdoni part 6: Challenges of the Secret: Publicity, Performance, and Play 19 Getting to How-To: Chiromancy, Physiognomy, Metoscopy and Prints in Secrets’ Service  Stephanie Leitch 20 The Answer Lies in the Eye of the Beholder: the Emblematic Ceiling Program in the Town Hall of Gdańsk  Monika Biel 21 Convents, Condottieri, and Compulsive Gamblers: Hands-On Secrets of Lorenzo Spirito’s Libro  Suzanne Karr Schmidt 22 Secrecy and the Understanding of Small Things in Early Modern Italy  Bret L. Rothstein Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe. Although this period is often described as the ‘Age of Magnificence’, thus far no attempts have been made to investigate how the term and the concept of magnificence functioned. The authors focus on the way crucial ethical, religious, political, aesthetic, and cultural developments interacted with thought on magnificence in Catholic and Protestant contexts, analysing spectacular civic and courtly festivities and theatre, impressive displays of painting and sculpture in rich architectural settings, splendid gardens, exclusive etiquette, grand households, and learned treatises of moral philosophy. Contributors: Lindsay Alberts, Stijn Bussels, Jorge Fernández-Santos, Anne-Madeleine Goulet, Elizabeth den Hartog, Michèle-Caroline Heck, Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Victoire Malenfer, Alessandro Metlica, Alessandra Mignatti, Anne-Françoise Morel, Matthias Roick, Kathrin Stocker, Klaas Tindemans, and Gijs Versteegen.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction  Gijs Versteegen and Stijn Bussels Part 1: Traditions of Thought on Magnificence 1 Early Modern Readings of Aristotle’s Theory of Magnificence in the Ethics  Matthias Roick 2 Medieval Background to Magnificence in Habsburg Spain: King Solomon as Enduring Exemplar of Divine Worship  Jorge Fernández-Santos 3 Magnificence between Effect of Power and Power of Effect  Michèle-Caroline Heck Part 2: The Court and Aristocracy 4 The Hall of Realms, a Space for Royal Magnificence  Miguel Hermoso Cuesta 5 Magnificence, Power, and Private Finance in the Seventeenth Century: Flavio Orsini and Marie-Anne de La Trémoille, between Rome and Paris (1675–1686)  Anne-Madeleine Goulet 6 The Magnificence of the Royal Household and Royal Sites: The Case of the Spanish Monarchy  Félix Labrador Arroyo and José Eloy Hortal Muñoz 7 Educating Magnificence: Juan Eusebio Nieremberg on Ascesis and Splendour in his Manual for the Reales Estudios of the Colegio Imperial at Madrid  Gijs Versteegen Part 3: Architecture 8 Building Magnificence in the Dutch Golden Age: the Amsterdam Town Hall  Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt 9 Maiestate Tantum: Spiritual Magnificence at the Cappella dei Principi  Lindsay Alberts 10 Magnificence Exemplified: the Restoration of the Old St. Paul’s London  Anne-Françoise Morel 11 Magnificent! Gaspar Fagel’s Plant Collection at Leeuwenhorst  Elizabeth den Hartog Part 4: Performance 12 Magnificence and Atticism in Seventeenth-Century Venice  Alessandro Metlica 13 Magnificence and Regality in Milanese Celebratory Sets: The Birth of Balthasar Charles and Exequies in the Epoch of Philip IV  Alessandra Mignatti 14 The Ducal Stage: Festive Culture and the Display of Magnificence in Seventeenth-Century Württemberg  Kathrin Stocker 15 The Libertine Subversion of the Masque: The Case of John Wilmot’s Lucina’s Rape  Klaas Tindemans 16 Magnificence as Aesthetic Category in Court Plays: Molière’s Les Amants Magnifiques (The Magnificent Lovers)  Victoire Malenfer Index Nominum

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