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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Catholic Reformation"”.
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The Scottish Church, 1525-1559: A Study in Abortive Reform
The Catholic Reformation has been, until recent years, largely neglected by researchers of the period. Historians have felt, with little justification, that the Catholic Reformation was less interesting than the Protestant Reformation. And while political histories of the Reformation abound, and …
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Educating Lyon’s poor : children, charity, and commerce in the seventeenth century
… is not necessarily surprising in Counter Reformation France as the church was obliged to foster education, what was innovative about Lyon’s écoles de charité is that “professional education” was stressed alongside Catholic doctrine in the seventeenth century. Catering to Lyon’s poor youth, …
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Reconciling Eros and Agape: The English Catholic Artistic Response to Reforms
<p>This study explores the English Catholic artistic response to reforms--reforms being both internal and external to the Catholic Church--as part of the Catholic Reformation. "Response," for the purposes of this project, may be defined in terms of an "answer" in an ongoing dialogue about the …
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Parole e immagini nella ritualità della Settimana Santa in Sardegna. Fonti scritte e sculture lignee nella pratica rituale dell’epoca moderna
The thesis intends to demonstrate how in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Sardinia it was fundamental for the Church to use the preached word and meditative text along with the devotional image. These are the same tools for control and indoctrination for the faithful. This particular …
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Food and Religion in the English and Italian Reformations, c. 1560 - c. 1640
… between food and religion in the European Reformations, through the comparative case studies of Protestant England and Catholic Italy, c. 1560 - c. 1640. It seeks to answer two broad interrelated questions: how did Protestants and Catholics understand food and eating in relation to their …