Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy
Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular

A new interpretation of what the Catholic Reform meant at local diocesan level c.1550–1700.

Simon Ditchfield (Author)

9780521462204, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 November 1995

414 pages, 5 b/w illus. 2 maps
23.5 x 15.7 x 3 cm, 0.737 kg

"...abundantly detailed....Ditchfield has done a thorough--indeed, erudite job--of defining the scope and interests of ecclesiastical historiography and suggesting its impact on Italian historiography..." Frederick J. McGinness, Journal of Modern History

This book brings together for the first time detailed analyses of Tridentine liturgical reform, Counter-Reformation sanctity and the late Renaissance 'revolution' in historical method. It redraws traditional historical boundaries, and offers an original and challenging reappraisal of the relations between Rome and its local Italian churches during the 150 years after the closure of the Council of Trent in 1564. A fundamentally new context is also provided for the work of Cesare Baronio, 'father' of Counter-Reformation historical scholarship, and of his regional counterparts. The examination of the writings of one such local Baronio, Pietro Maria Campi of Piacenza (1569–1649), acts as a focus for this study, which also includes the fullest account yet published of Counter-Reformation canonisation procedure, as well as the first extended scholarly treatment of the collaborative achievement of Ferdinando Ughelli's Italia sacra, and that work's long-term implications for Italian national history writing. The book also includes a comprehensive survey of Italian local hagiography and ecclesiastical history writing of the period.

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Maps
1. Introduction
Part I. Liturgy: 2. Reform of liturgy and the reinvention of historia sacra
3. Hagiography as liturgy in a local context: the ecclesia placentina riformanda
Part II. Sanctity: 4. Early Christian martyr
5. Aristocratic hermit
6. Well-born nun
7. Lay helper of the urban poor
8. Visionary shepherdess
9. Saintly pontiff
Part III. History: 10. Historia sacra as redemptor ecclesiarum italicarum
11. The ecclesiastical roots of national historiography: Ferdinando Ughelli's Italia sacra
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD]