The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540–1770

This is an updated synthesis of the scholarship on the history of Catholicism from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

R. Po-Chia Hsia (Author)

9780521602419, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 12 May 2005

284 pages, 2 b/w illus. 3 tables
22.6 x 15 x 2.3 cm, 0.41 kg

' … deserves to be widely read …' Newdirections

The second edition of The World of Catholic Renewal offers an updated synthesis of the vast scholarship on the history of Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the sixteenth century to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century. Professor Hsia discusses the doctrinal and ecclesiastical renewal after Trent and the progress of Catholic reconquest in various lands. He analyses the social composition of the Tridentine clergy and the papal curia and studies the making of early modern sainthood and the enclosure of religious women. Encompassing art and architecture, Ronnie Hsia attempts to understand Catholic renewal as a vast historical development that shaped European civilization and also explores its expansion and encounter with non-Christian cultures in America, Africa, and Asia. The new edition of this acclaimed textbook offers an additional chapter on The Catholic Book as well as an updated bibliography.

1. The Council of Trent
2. The new religious orders
3. The triumphant church
4. The militant church
5. The martyred church
6. The papal curia
7. Bishops and priests
8. Counter-reformation saints
9. Holy women, beatas, demoniacs
10. Art and architecture
11. The Catholic book
12. The Iberian church and empires
13. The Catholic mission in Asia
14. From triumph to crisis.

Subject Areas: Political science & theory [JPA], History of ideas [JFCX], History of religion [HRAX], Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD]