The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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 analyzes the social composition of the Tridentine clergy and the papal curia, and studies the making of