With this book, I aim to clarify some facts and concepts that can help us understand the
history of the Church in the long Counter-Reformation period, rescuing it from …

On 13 October 1534, after a conclave of only two days, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese
emerged as pope. As Paul III he governed the church until 1549, with one foot, as it were, in …

Until relatively recently, interpretations of early modern Catholicism have focused on a
binary model–broadcast/reception–with unidirectional waves of proselytising missionaries …

Four hundred years ago, on December 4, 1563, the Council of Trent held its twenty-fifth and
last solemn session. During eighteen difficult years it dominated the ecclesiastical affairs of …

The book in your hands contains the proceedings of the international conference Trent and
Beyond: The Council, other Powers, other Cultures, which took place in Trent at the Centro …

DURING the last fifty years the labors of historians, largely under the inspiration of Leo XIII,
have been powerfully focused on the Council of Trent, the central point of that most …

In 1964, the historian Giuseppe Alberigo published an essay titled “L'ecclesiologia del
Concilio de Trento.” 1 He was reacting against the mythical interpretation of the Council of …

The historiography surrounding the significance of the Council of Trent (1545–63) presents
a particular challenge; even before the Council fathers hurried away from the freezing city in …

For scholars who might be tempted to suppose that there is little more of interest or
relevance that can be said about the Reformation and Counter Reformation, John O'Malley's …

Who would be a bishop in the brave new world forged at Trent? Celeste McNamara's first
monograph, a revision of her doctoral thesis at Northwestern University, explains the trials …