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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Council of Trent"”.
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Martyrological fulfilment: the process of reform in the publication of late sixteenth-century printed Italian martyrologies, c. 1568 - 1583
Throughout the first half of the sixteenth century, Catholic martyrologies were printed in Italy based on the martyrology of Usuard. These martyrologies directly transcribed the majority of the entries in his martyrology, added their own eulogia and changed the title to identify it with the Romana …
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Agenda S. Coloniensis : the exorcism rituals of Ferdinand von Bayern
"By the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Catholic Counter-Reformation was already well underway in Europe. While Catholic reform had been taking place long before Luther and his ninety-five theses, the Council of Trent (1545-1563) was an integral part of the revitalization of Catholic …
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Some Sources of Puritan Sabbatarianism
… observation, that the· Puritan doctrine of Sunday was a bit of English originality and perhaps the only important English contribution to the development of Reformed theology in the first century of its history, initiated this study; <em>Some Sources of Puritan Sabbatarianism</em>. Since …
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Descartes and tradition: the miracle of the Eucharist
Descartes and the followers of his new mechanistic physics were subject to condemnation as a result of a reaction against his philosophy on the basis that it could not adequately explain the miracle of the Eucharist. Descartes, however, firmly believed that he could give an explanation of the real …
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North Italian liturgical music in the late sixteenth century
This is a study of published sacred polyphonic vocal music by composers working in the Venetian Republic and adjacent territories, from the late 1560s, when the decrees of the Council of Trent were implemented in regional councils, to the earliest years of the new century, when the economic …
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Art, Trade, and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Lima: Francisco de Zurbarán's Commission for the Convent of La Encarnación
… de Zurbarán (1598-1664) was the most famous of the Sevillian painters who participated in the overseas art trade. The artist sent several hundred works to destinations in the viceroyalty of Peru during his career. While his participation in this long-distance endeavor can be documented …
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Ideology and diplomacy: the impact of reformed religion on foreign policy and diplomatic practice in the first decade of Elizabeth I
… dissertation examines the ideological attitudes of Elizabeth’s servants on issues of foreign policy and to examine the relationship between stated ideological goals and foreign policy. The conclusion drawn from this examination is that the men who served Elizabeth shared a basic set of Protestant …
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The Autonomous Maker within: 'Fantasia' in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art Theory (1501-1568)
This thesis investigates the significance of the notion of fantasia for artists and critics of art in Italy during the sixteenth century up to the definitive edition of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives (1568). It charts the pre-history of this term in an age before the imagination was attributed paramount …
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The Danger of Visual Seduction: Netherlandish Prints of Susanna and the Elders
<p>In 1563, the Council of Trent issued a decree which stated, "...all lasciviousness is to be avoided, so that images shall not be painted and adorned with seductive charm." In the wake of this mandate, and other Netherlandish mandates intended to bolster the Council's decrees, prints of the …
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Resurrecting Lope's Autos
<p>By the turn of the seventeenth century, the <em>auto sacramental</em> quickly became the most elaborate dramatic genre in Spain. Shortly after the Council of Trent, professional playwrights replaced clerics who had previously written <em>autos</em> for the Corpus Christi celebrations held each …
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The reception of John Chrysostom and the study of ancient Christianity in early modern Europe, c.1440-1600
This study retraces the principal moments of the Latin reception of John Chrysostom between c.1440 and 1600 and how they reflect on the study of ancient Christianity in early modern Europe. After a short Introduction to Chrysostom’s reception in medieval Europe and existing historiography on early …
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The decline in representations of the Virgin as mother in early post-reformation iconography.
… drew to a close the ‘mother and child’ image of the Virgin was being replaced by the representation of ‘Mary alone’. The move away from depicting the ‘mother and child’, and particularly the nursing mother, had begun. Medieval religiosity had been characterized by a physical piety which …
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Empreintes architecturales de femmes sur les routes de l'Europe : étude des couvents des annonciades célestes fondés avant 1800
… the general public. But beyond the ideal image of the medieval abbey or the baroque Jesuit churches, this architecture remains, in fact, unknown. More specifically, the first studies of the architecture of convents in Modern Europe began only twenty years ago. However, in the seventeenth and …
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Evelyn Waugh and la nouvelle théologie.
This dissertation seeks to provide a more profound study of Evelyn Waugh's relation to twentieth-century Catholic theology than has yet been attempted. In doing so, it offers a radical revision of our understanding of Waugh's relation to the Second Vatican Coucil. Waugh's famous contempt for the …
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A codicological study on the L'Isle Adam illuminated graduals: manufacture, condition and proposals for conservation treatment
The subject of this research is on a collection of ten illuminated graduals that were commissioned by Grand Master L'Isle Adam (1421-1534) for the Order of the Knights of St John in Malta. The manuscripts which date from 1533 are housed in the Museum of St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta. Due to …
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Tudor Conciliar Theorists
<p>This thesis analyzes a variety of sources such as printed books, diplomatic correspondence, letters, and notes, from which a description of Tudor ideas in relation to proposals to hold a general council can be derived. This Tudor Conciliar Theory has a definite beginning.</p> <p>Henry VIII …
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Conoscenza e azione. La teoria delle intentiones nella Escuela de Salamanca (XV‐XVI secolo)
The main goal of this work is the reconstruction of the concepts of knowledge and intentionality, as stated by some ‘voces significativae’ of the Escuela de Salamanca, starting from the second part of XV century. We will consider some texts of different scholars belonging to the Order of the …
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A arte do renascimento na antiga Diocese de Miranda (1545-1609)
Este estudo tem dois objetivos de investigação bem explícitos, que decorrem em paralelo ao longo deste estudo: estudar a arte do Renascimento na Antiga Diocese de Miranda do Douro e constatar a influência dos primeiros sete prelados na incrementação deste estilo artístico. Fixámos como limite …
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A Theological Appraisal of Marriage in Tiv Culture
… and a socio-cultural reality in which each group of people should determine, according to their own context. In other words, every institution, society, and culture have a right to choose what type of marriage arrangement that best explains and works for it.</p> <p>Nevertheless, the Western …