Catholic Europe, 1592-1648: Centre and Peripheries

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Oxford University Press, 2015 - History - 270 pages
Catholic Europe, 1592-1648 is an unusual book which concentrates on a series of societies often ignored in general historical treatments of Catholic renewal and which are almost never considered alongside each other. By comparing different societies on the periphery of Europe, this volume offers the opportunity to evaluate both the very varied nature of Catholic adaptation to different conditions and events, and also the limitations which restricted it insocieties such as England and the Balkans.On the periphery of Europe, Catholic renewal was largely a phenomenon of the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Catholic Europe,1592-1648 probes the manner in which conventional treatments of the phenomenon of religious change in the Catholic world can underestimate the degree to which this was conditioned by contemporary events as well as the great landmarks of the sixteenth century such as the foundation of the Jesuits or the Council of Trent.
 

Contents

IntroductionThe Periodizationof Catholic Renewal
1
The Western Margins
29
EastCentral Europe
75
Opposition to Islam
138
Catholicism and Missionary Activity in the Northern Balkans
173
ConclusionCentre and Peripheries
213
Bibliography
231
Index
255
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Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin is currently Head of School of History at University College Dublin. He completed his PhD at the European University Institute at Florence in 1995. He has published widely in journals such as English Historical Review, History Compass, Shiso, Revue Historique, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy and in numerous edited collections. He was the joint Principal Investigator on the Irish Research Council Thematic Grants projectInsular Christianity. His research interests are primarily in the field of Early Modern religious history. Catholic Europe, 1592-1648: Centre and Peripheries is his second monograph with Oxford University Press.

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