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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in new and profound ways, and he demonstrates convincingly...
Author
Publisher
Sophia Institute Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Not long after Martin Luther's defiance of the Church in 1517, dialogue between Protestants and Catholics broke down, brother turned against brother, and devastating religious wars erupted across Europe. Desperate to restore the peace and recover the unity of Faith, Catholic theologians clarified and reaffirmed Catholic doctrines, but turned as well to another form of evangelization: the Arts.
Convinced that to win over the unlettered, the best place...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Esteemed history professor Thomas F. Madden explores the reformations that swept across Christendom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The impact of these reforms affected government, popes, and kings as well as commoners, for at this time the Church was an omnipresent part of European identity-and the import of Church reforms on every level of life at this time simply cannot be underestimated. Involved in this fascinating era are such notable...
Author
Series
Histoire de l'Église du Christ volume 5
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
14) The Reformation
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Historical overview of the Protestant Reformation from its initial stirrings in medieval times through the Counter-Reformation, and its cultural effects.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"This book examines the promotion of the sensuous as part of religious experience in the Roman Catholic Church of the early modern period"--
"This book examines the promotion of the sensuous as part of religious experience in the Roman Catholic Church of the early modern period. During the Counter-Reformation, every aspect of religious and devotional practice was reviewed, including the role of art and architecture, and the invocation of the five...