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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Counter-Reformation"”.
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Velázquez: The Spanish Style and the Art of Devotion
<p>This dissertation offers an account of counter-reformation mystical texts and <em>praxis</em> with art historical applicability to Spanish painting of the Seventeenth Century— particularly the work of Diego Velázquez. The consequences of considering devotional practice and mystical experience in …
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Making and Marketing a Theatre Couple in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Giovan Battista Andreini and Virginia Ramponi
… the opposition to professional performers led by Counter-Reformation clergy and a response to the promotion of professional performers led by academicians. By exploring Andreini and Ramponi’s engagement with Counter-Reformation thought, their relation with cultural and political institutions, …
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Agenda S. Coloniensis : the exorcism rituals of Ferdinand von Bayern
… 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 doctrine and …
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Religious Mobility and the Development of English Catholicism, 1532-1558
… and experiment with new religious ideas they encountered abroad. This saw them connect with various localised manifestations of the Catholic Counter-Reformation, as well as with abortive efforts to heal the growing rift between the Catholic Church and its evangelical critics. As well as …
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The evolution of pilgrimage practice in early modern Ireland
… exercises brought about as a result of the Counter-Reformation. Efforts to transform the pilgrimage from a ritualistic experience into an inner spiritual experience demand a proper investigation into the nature of these devotional shifts. Ln the early seventeenth century pilgrims at Lough …
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The spirit in the church: instituting the holy in George Herbert's poetry and prose
… the iconographic and rhetorical traditions of Counter-Reformation theory to answer the Puritan problem of displaying the Spirit's inward effects.
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Francois Hotman and Jean Bodin. Political Activity in Sixteenth Century France
… changed in France. England had women rulers. The Reformation exploded, transforming the religion of millions. With the Reformation and Counter-Reformation came political and religious disputes that resulted in warfare for more than thirty years.</p> <p>Political theory flourished during this …
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Educating Lyon’s poor : children, charity, and commerce in the seventeenth century
… institutions 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 …
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Representations of Queen Elizabeth I in Edmund Spenser's Pastoral Poetry
… desire for patronage, and his fear of a counter-reformation threat posed by Catholicism. They create a poetic identity in which Elizabeth is unconsciously desired as the exotic Other, through a pastoral that maps the Elizabethan court. Spenser constructs this political landscape from a …
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Solo angel roles in vocal music : tracing the use of angel roles from 1600 to the present
… during the baroque era, as well as the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, affected the amount of angel solo roles. In the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many began to question traditional religious beliefs in the search for rational and scientific thought. The amount of …
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The Danger of Visual Seduction: Netherlandish Prints of Susanna and the Elders
… contention that these prints were engaged in the Reformation/Counter-Reformation disputes over the depiction of "lascivious" subjects and demonstrated the power of such imagery to incite indecorous behaviors. Although they seem to contradict the Reformers' and Counter-Reformers' interdictions, …
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Retelling Conversion: The Making of Christian Histories of Sweden, c. 1100–1550
… The third and final chapter discusses how the Counter-Reformation historian Johannes Magnus received, approached and reworked medieval texts about the Christianisation of Sweden, against the background of his life as Catholic churchman exiled to Rome. The thesis includes an appendix with …
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The politics of the confessional imagination, from Calvin to Hobbes
… sources in scholasticism and parallels in the Counter-Reformation Catholic Church. I then introduce the pessimistic account of the imagination which features prominently within English Protestant discourse. I conclude this section with another discussion of Francis Bacon, this time focussing on …
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The Queen's and Embassy Chapels and the Boundaries of Tolerance in Early Stuart London, c. 1603-1643
… living with confessional diversity after the Reformation. This was especially pronounced in cosmopolitan London where people of multiple faiths lived in close proximity. However, unlike the regions, there have been no studies of coexistence with Catholics in the English capital. Historians …
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Jesuit Education and Mathematics: Review of the Literature on Jesuit Education and Mathematics
… rare and the areas of study focus mostly in the Counter-Reformation period. Further work is suggested in using the tradition, experience and methodology of Jesuit education, particularly in the role of Mathematics and its teaching.</p>
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A comparative, iconographic study of early-modern, religious emblems
… and Catholic emblems produced during the Reformation and Counter- Reformation, drawing on specific examples from, in particular, France, but also Germany and England. Emblems played a huge role in early-modern life. They expressed contemporary thought and also became part of the physical …
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El mundo visionario en la España moderna: manifestaciones y problemas. Una aproximación desde la tratadística y la Inquisición
… such as the Hispanic one, influenced by the Counter-Reformation. In order to achieve it, we have to consider the fact that men and women of Modern Age considered the visionary world as a real part of their lives. They searched for explanations in the wonderful for all kinds of personal and …
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