A companion to the early modern cardinal / edited by Mary Hollingsworth, Miles Pattenden, Arnold Witte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hollingsworth, Mary, editor.

Pattenden, Miles, editor.

Witte, Arnold Alexander, editor.

Series:

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; Volume 91.

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; Volume 91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cardinals--History.

Cardinals.

Catholic Church--History--Modern period, 1500-.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal is the first comprehensive overview of its subject in English or any language. Cardinals are best known as the pope’s electors, but in the centuries from 1400 to 1800 they were so much more: pastors, inquisitors, diplomats, bureaucrats, statesmen, saints; entrepreneurs and investors; patrons of the arts, of music, literature, and science. Thirty-five essays explain their social background, positions and roles in Rome and beyond, and what they meant for wider society. This volume shows the impact which those men who took up the purple had in their respective fields and how their tenure of office shaped the entangled histories of Rome and the Catholic Church from a European and global perspective.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Notes on Editors and Contributors

Introduction / Mary Hollingsworth, Miles Pattenden and Arnold Witte

The Concept and Function

The Medieval Background to the Cardinal’s Office / Barbara Bombi

The College of Cardinals / Miles Pattenden

The Rituals of the Cardinalate: Creation and Abdication / Jennifer Mara DeSilva

Cardinals in Conclave / Mary Hollingsworth

The Cardinal Nephew / Birgit Emich

Cardinals and the Church

Cardinals, Bishops, and Councils / Bernward Schmidt

Cardinals and the Inquisition / Vincenzo Lavenia

Cardinal Protectors of Religious Institutions / Arnold Witte

Cardinals and the Apostolic Penitentiary / Kirsi Salonen

Cardinals and Theology / Jean-Pascal Gay

Cardinals and Secular Power

Cardinal Legates and Nuncios / Alexander Koller

Cardinal Protectors and National Interests / Bertrand Marceau

Cardinals as National Politicians / Joseph Bergin

Cardinals as Prince-Bishops / Bettina Braun

Property and Wealth

The Social Background and Education of Cardinals / Maria Antonietta Visceglia

The Cardinal’s Household / Mary Hollingsworth

Cardinals’ Property and Income / Lucinda Byatt

Cardinals’ Testaments: Piety and Charity / Fausto Nicolai

Cardinals and Rome

Cardinals and the Government of the Papal States / Irene Fosi

Cardinals and the Vacant See / John M. Hunt

Cardinals and Their Titular Churches / Arnold Witte

Cardinals’ Palaces: Architecture and Decoration / Patricia Waddy

Cardinals and Mission

Cardinals and the Non-Christian World / Miles Pattenden

Cardinals and the Greek and Eastern Churches / Camille Rouxpetel

Cardinals and the Creation of the Spanish Americas / Luis Martínez Ferrer

Cardinals and the Congregation of the Propaganda Fide / Giovanni Pizzorusso

Cardinals and Literature

The Early Modern Historiography of Early Modern Cardinals / Miles Pattenden and Arnold Witte

Treatises on the Ideal Cardinal / David S. Chambers

Life-Writing and the Saintly Cardinal / Pamela M. Jones

Cardinals and the Culture of Libraries and Learning / Maria Pia Donato

Cardinals and the Visual Arts

Cardinals as Patrons of the Visual Arts / Piers Baker-Bates, Mary Hollingsworth and Arnold Witte

The Cardinal’s Wardrobe / Carol M. Richardson

Portraits of Early Modern Cardinals / Clare Robertson

Cardinals’ Tombs / Philipp Zitzlsperger

Cardinals, Music, and Theatre / Franco Piperno

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index of Historical Persons.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-41544-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004415447 DOI