Trent
Subtitle: what happened at the council
By: John W. O'Malley
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780674066977
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Council of Trent (1545-1563)
Description: During the council's eighteen years, war and threat of war among the key players, as well as the Ottoman Turks' onslaught against Christendom, turned the council into a perilous enterprise. Its leaders declined to make a pronouncement on war against infidels, but Trent's most glaring and ironic silence was on the authority of the papacy itself. The popes, who reigned as Italian monarchs while serving as pastors, did everything in their power to keep papal reform out of the council's hands -- and their power was considerable. O'Malley shows how the council pursued its contentious parallel agenda of reforming the Church while simultaneously asserting Catholic doctrine. -- Publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: The fifteenth-century prelude; title: The struggle to convoke the council; title: The first period, 1545-1547; title: The middle years, 1547-1562; title: The council resumes, 1562-1563; title: The council concludes; title: Epilogue.