Counter Reformation

Councils of the Catholic Reformation: Pisa I (1409) to Trent (1545-63)

May 12, 2022

By Nelson H. Minnich (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) This new collection by Nelson Minnich deals with the general councils of the Catholic Reformation in the late medieval and early modern periods. The volume opens with overviews of the various editions of and current scholarship on these general councils. Three studies then give special attention to the … Continued

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The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors

May 12, 2022

By Robert Bireley (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) Christian princes waged the first pan-European war from 1618 to 1648. Brought about in part by the entrenched passions of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the Thirty Years War inevitably drew in the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, who stood at the vanguard of Catholic Reform. This book investigates … Continued

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