This article explores several dioceses in Tuscany—Arezzo, Fiesole, Lucca, Montepulciano,
Siena, and Volterra—in light of the foundation of diocesan seminaries, to determine if a new …

In 1563, the Council of Trent mandated the opening of diocesan seminaries to give low‐
level instruction in pastoral duties for boys aged 12 years and older who were destined for …

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 h education of the clergy,
catechesis, and pastoral theology. More provocative—and an important departure from Owst …

The Counter-Reformation initiated a long period of growth in the numbers of the secular and
religious clergy of Catholic Europe. Mario Rosa has observed that in Italy the clerical …

Reforming Priests and Parishes consists of case studies of diocesan seminaries in the
Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Republic of Lucca from 1563-1660s. The major cases are …

Compulsory public education in Italy came into being almost simultaneously with the
process of national unification. From the outset, the liberal ruling class was faced with the old …

This study investigates the network of secondary education in north ern Italy in the late
sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Citing specific examples, the Republic of Venice …

When studied through canon law and scholastic pastoralia produced in the universities in
the thirteenth century and beyond, medieval pastoral care comes across as spiritual care …

The relationship between town and country (contado) and the origin of the rural commune in
twelfth-and thirteenth-century Tuscany are two problems that have long intrigued historians …

A compelling examination of how a religious brotherhood administered charity in its local
community and acted as mediator between provincial elites and the early modern state …