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Sacred history : uses of the Christian past in the Renaissance world / edited by Katherine van Liere, Simon Ditchfield, and Howard Louthan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Historiography--History.
- Church history.
- Church history--Modern period, 1500-.
- Church history--Modern period.
- Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Church history--Middle Ages.
- Church history--Historiography.
- History.
- Europe--Church history.
- Europe.
- Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- This volume provides the first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its institutional and doctrinal developments, in the two centuries from c. 1450-1650. With deep medieval roots, ecclesiastical history was generally a conservative enterprise, often serving to reinforce confessional, national, regional, dynastic, or local identities. But writers of sacred history innovated in research methods and in techniques of scholarly production, especially after the advent of print. The demand for sacred history was particularly acute in the various movements for religious reform, in both Catholic and Protestant traditions.
- Contents:
- Part I Church History in the Renaissance and Reformation
- 1 Church History in Early Modern Europe: Tradition and Innovation / Anthony Grafton Grafton, Anthony 3
- 2 Primitivism, Patristics, and Polemic in Protestant Visions of Early Christianity / Euan Cameron Cameron, Euan 27
- 3 Cesare Baronio and the Roman Catholic Vision of the Early Church / Giuseppe Antonio Guazzelli Guazzelli, Giuseppe Antonio 52
- 4 What Was Sacred History? (Mostly Roman) Catholic Uses of the Christian Past after Trent / Simon Ditchfield Ditchfield, Simon 72
- Part II National History and Sacred History
- 5 The Germania illustrata, Humanist History, and the Christianization of Germany / David J. Collins, S.J. S.J., David J. Collins, 101
- 6 Renaissance Chroniclers and the Apostolic Origins of Spanish Christianity / Katherine Elliot Van Liere Liere, Katherine Elliot Van 121
- 7 Imagining Christian Origins: Catholic Visions of a Holy Past in Central Europe / Howard P. Louthan Louthan, Howard P. 145
- 8 Elizabethan Histories of English Christian Origins / Rosamund Oates Oates, Rosamund 165
- 9 Reconstructing Irish Catholic History after the Reformation / Salvador Ryan Ryan, Salvador 186
- Part III Uses of Sacred History in the Early Modem Catholic World
- 10 The Lives of the Saints in the French Renaissance c.1500-c.1650 / Jean-Marie Le Gall Gall, Jean-Marie Le 209
- 11 Doubting Thomas: The Apostle and the Portuguese Empire in Early Modern Asia / Liam Matthew Brockey Brockey, Liam Matthew 231
- 12 Cultural History in the Catacombs: Early Christian Art and Macarius's Hagioglypta / Irina Oryshkevich Oryshkevich, Irina 250
- 13 Scholarly Pilgrims: Antiquarian Visions of the Holy Land / Adam G. Beaver Beaver, Adam G. 267.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199594795
- 0199594791
- OCLC:
- 754711922
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