Synopses & Reviews
A history of Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the sixteenth century to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century, this accessible study of Catholicism offers the first synthesis of the vast scholarship on Catholic renewal in Europe and on Catholic missions in the non-European world. Professor Hsia discusses the doctrinal and ecclesiastical renewal after Trent and the progress of Catholic reconquest in various lands. He also analyses the social composition of the Tridentine clergy and the papal curia and explores the making of early modern sainthood and the enclosure of religious women. Encompassing art and architecture, Hsia attempts to understand Catholic renewal as a vast historical development that shaped European civilization between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and at the same time explores its expansion and encounter with non-Christian civilizations in America, Africa, and Asia.
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"...it is good to have available a well-organized study of so many other aspects and developments of early modern Catholicism."
- Jill Raitt, University of Missouri
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"...an impressive and useful work of scholarship."
- H-HRE, Luke Clossey, Department of History, Simon Fraser University
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"Hsia has completed a notable and practical work of scholarship for understanding Counter-Reformation thought."
Ron. J. Bigalke, Journal of Dispensational Theology
Synopsis
This second edition features an updated synthesis of the vast scholarship on the history 0f Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the sixteenth century to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century. The book covers the doctrinal and ecclesiastical renewal after Trent and the progress of Catholic reconquest in various lands. It also analyses the social composition of the Tridentine clergy and the papal curia and studies the making of early modern sainthood and the enclosure of religious women. An additional chapter on The Catholic Book as well as an updated bibliography are included.
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The World of Catholic Renewal 1540-1770 offers an interpretation of the historical events experienced in the Catholic lands of Europe and the wider world from the middle of the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. In this accessible study Professor Hsia looks at many aspects of Catholicism ranging from art and architecture to the social composition of the Tridentine clergy in an attempt to understand Catholic renewal as a vast historical development that shaped European civilization between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
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A thematic study of Catholic renewal from the Council of Trent to the eighteenth century.
Synopsis
The second edition of The World of Catholic Renewal offers an updated synthesis of the vast scholarship on the history of Catholicism from the middle of the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. Professor Hsia discusses the doctrinal and ecclesiastical renewal after Trent. Encompassing art and architecture, he attempts to understand Catholic renewal as a vast historical development that shaped European civilization and explores its expansion and encounter with non-Christian cultures in America, Africa, and Asia. The new edition offers an additional chapter on The Catholic Book and updated bibliography.
About the Author
Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia is Professor of History in Pennsylvania State University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Trent 1415: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial (1992) and Blackwell Companion to the World of the Reformation (ed. 2002).
Table of Contents
1. The Council of Trent; 2. The new religious orders; 3. The triumphant church; 4. The militant church; 5. The martyred church; 6. The papal curia; 7. Bishops and priests; 8. Counter-reformation saints; 9. Holy women, beatas, demoniacs; 10. Art and architecture; 11. The Catholic book; 12. The Iberian church and empires; 13. The Catholic mission in Asia; 14. From triumph to crisis.