Title: The world of Catholic renewal, 1540-1770
First published: 1998
Description: 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.
Subjects: Counter-Reformation, History, Church renewal, Catholic Church, Catholic church, history, Church renewal, catholic church, Catholic church, history, modern period, 1500-, Historycatholic church, Church renewal--catholic church--history, Bx1304 .h75 2005, 282/.09/03
Time periods: 17th century, 16th century, 18th century