The Catholic Reformation
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Discussion topics and Essay Questions
- Are the Reformation and Counter-Reformation better seen as competing or complementary forces?
- To what extent did the religion practised by the Catholic laity change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
- What were the principal challenges in establishing Catholicism as a 'global' religion?
Documents
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Palestrina, Missa Papae Marcelli, 'Kyrie'
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Missa De Batalla, Gloria (La Capella Reial De Catalunya)
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Vivaldi, Gloria, 'Cum sancto spiritu'
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Grandi, O Quam Tu Pulchra Es, from Ghirlanda Sacra
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Secondary literature
Selected Key Texts
- A. Bamji et al. (eds), The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation (2013) (ebook), esp. chs 1, 2, 5, 6
- R. Birely, The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation (1999) (ebook), esp. chs 1, 2, 3, 5
- J. Bossy, 'The Counter Reformation and the people of Catholic Europe', Past and Present, 47 (1970)
- A. G. Dickens, The Counter Reformation (1968)
- R. P. Hsia, The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770 (1998), esp chs 1, 2 (digital scan of ch. 1 'The Council of Trent' available here)
- D.M. Luebke (ed.), The Counter-Reformation: Essential Readings (1999), esp. chs. 1, 4
- P. Marshall, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation (2015) (ebook), ch. 5 by Simopn Ditchfield
- R. Miola, Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (2007) (ebook) [primary source collection]
- M. Mullett, The Catholic Reformation (1999) (ebook), esp. chs 2, 3, 5, 6
Further reading
a) The European Catholic Reformation
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J. Bergin, 'The Counter Reformation Church and its bishops', Past & Present 165 (1999)
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R. Birely, 'The Peace of Prague (1635) and the Counter Reformation in Germany', Journal of Modern History 48 (1976)
- W. Christian, Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain (1981), chs 2, 5
- L. Chatellier, The Europe of the Devout: the Catholic Reformation and the Formation of a New Society (1989), esp. chs 7, 8, 10
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N. Davidson, The Counter Reformation (1987)
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J. Delumeau, Catholicism between Luther and Voltaire: A New View of the Counter-Reformation (1977)
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R.L. DeMolen, Religious Orders of the Catholic Reformation (1994)
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J. Dillenberger, Images and relics: theological perceptions and visual images in sixteenth-century (1999) (ebook)
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H.O. Evennett, ‘The New Orders’ in G. Elton (ed.) New Cambridge Modern History: Vol. 2 The Reformation, 1520-1559 (1990) (ebook) ch. 9
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A. Fisher, Music and Religious Identity in Counter-Reformation Augsburg (2003)
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M. Jones, The Counter Reformation: Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe (1995)
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H. Louthan, The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (1997) (ebook)
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K. Noreen, 'Ecclesiae militantis triumphi: Jesuit Iconography and the Counter- Reformation', Sixteenth Century Journal 29 (1998)
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J.C. Olin, Catholic Reform: From Cardinal Ximenes to the Council of Trent, 1495-1563: An Essay with Illustrative Documents and a Brief Study of St. Ignatius Loyola (1990)
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J.W. O’Malley, Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era (2000)
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T.M. Parker, ‘The Papacy, Catholic Reform, and the Christian Missions’, in G. Elton (ed.) New Cambridge Modern History: Vol. 2 The Reformation, 1520-1559 (1990) (ebook)
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J.J. Scarisbrick, The Jesuits and the Catholic Reformation (Hist.Assoc., 1988)
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P. Soergel, Wondrous in his saints: Counter-Reformation propaganda in Bavaria (1993) (ebook)
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L. Taylor,‘The influence of humanism on post-Reformation Catholic preachers in France’, Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997)
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A. Wright, The Early Modern Papacy: from the Council of Trent to the French Revolution 1564-1789 (2000)
b) Global Catholicism
- T. Alberts, Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500-1700 (2013), chs. 1, 4, 5, 7
- A. Bamji et al. (eds), The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation (2013) (ebook), esp. chs 7, 8, 23
- R. Birely, The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation (1999) (ebook), chs 7, 8
- L.M. Brockey, Journey to the East: the Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 (2007) (ebook)
- J. Gernet, China and the Christian Impact: A Conflict of Cultures (1985)
- Hsia, R. Po. Chia, The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770 (1998), chs 11 and 12
- J.F. Moran, The Japanese and the Jesuits: Alessandro Valignano in sixteenth-century Japan (1993) (ebook)
- J.J. Scarisbrick, The Jesuits and the Catholic Reformation (Hist.Assoc., 1988)
- J.D. Spence, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (1984)
- J. Thornton, ‘The Development of an African Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1491–1750’, The Journal of African History, 25 (1984), 147–67
Module Forum
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E-Resources
Chronology
Glossary of Religious Terms
External Links
Reformation Primary Sources - see documents in section on 'Counterreformation & Katholic Reformation'
'The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent' - transcription of decrees coming out of each session
Vulgate Bible - transcription of the Latin Vulgate Bible
Gutenberg Bible - copies of Johann Guternberg's Bible (c.1450)