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Trent : what happened at the council / John W. O'Malley.

Title
Trent : what happened at the council / John W. O'Malley.
Author
O'Malley, John W.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Description
335 p. : ill., map; 22 cm.
Summary
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
Subject
  • Catholic Church > History > 16th century
  • Council of Trent (1545-1563 : Trento, Italy)
  • 1500-1599
  • Counter-Reformation > History
  • History, Modern > 16th century
  • Church history > 16th century
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The fifteenth-century prelude -- The struggle to convoke the council -- The first period, 1545-1547 -- The middle years, 1547-1562 -- The council resumes, 1562-1563 -- The council concludes -- Epilogue.
ISBN
9780674066977 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012023978
OCLC
  • 792887105
  • SCSB-10630699
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library