The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540–1770

by R. Po-chia Hsia

• ISBN13: 9780521602419
• ISBN10: 0521602416
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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. The new edition of this acclaimed textbook offers an additional chapter on The Catholic Book as well as an updated bibliography.

Author Biography

R. Po-Chia Hsia is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University.

Table of Contents

List of plates, figures, and tables	viii
Preface to the second edition	ix
Acknowledgments	x
Chronology	xi
Introduction	1	(158)
1 The Council of Trent	10	(16)
2 The new religious orders	26	(17)
3 The triumphant Church	43	(18)
4 The militant Church	61	(21)
5 The martyred Church	82	(14)
6 The papal curia	96	(15)
7 Bishops and priests	111	(16)
8 Counter-Reformation saints	127	(17)
9 Holy women, beatas, demoniacs	144	(15)
10 Art and architecture	159	(13)
11 The Catholic book	172	(15)
12 The Iberian Church and empires	187	(12)
13 The Catholic missions in Asia	199	(18)
14 From triumph to crisis	217	(16)
Epilogue	233	(2)
Bibliographical essay	235	(18)
Index	253