The Cardinal of Lorraine and the Council of Trent
A Study in the Counter-Reformation

This 1930 volume explores the critical period which finally determined the ultimate orientation of the Counter-Reformation.

H. Outram Evennett (Author)

9781107601413, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 June 2011

556 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.1 cm, 0.7 kg

The author of this 1930 volume maintains that the first two and a half years of the pontificate of Pius IV, during which the continuation of the Council of Trent and the maintenance of its earlier decrees were secured against strong French and German opposition, constituted the critical period which finally determined the ultimate orientation of the Counter-Reformation. This thesis is worked out in detail in regard to the French efforts to prevent the continuation of the Tridentine Council and to force the Counter-Reformation into different channels from those desired by Rome, efforts which were largely inspired by the Cardinal of Lorraine around whom the narrative is hung. In addition, an attempt is made to appreciate the Cardinal's personality and to understand his ecclesiastical standpoint.

Preface
1. The Cardianal of Lorraine
2. France and the earlier Tridentine Assemblies
3. The menace of Calvinism
4. Pius IV, the General Council and the National Council
5. Trent versus a new council
6. Ad Ecclesiae Regimen
7. The regency of Catherine de Médicis
8. Eirenicon
9. The Assembly of Poissy
10. The end of the Assembly of Poissy
11. The reopening of the Council of Trent
12. Last struggles of the opposition
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]