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Counter-Reformation, The : Catholic Europe and the Non-Christian World
Overview: This scholarly survey represents a milestone in the study of Catholic movement known, perhaps misleadingly, as the Counter-Reformation. The author focuses much-needed attention on the roots of Catholic reform (so often overlooked), which lie deep in the late medievaal and Renaissance period. His discussion ranges, on an impressive scale, between political, cultural and religious relationships: it takes in the impact of philosophical and scientific trends in the seventeenth century and the Englightment; this influence of a variety of national factors; the importance of the witch-craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the significance of developments within Protestant religion and culture, which often strikingly paralleled those of the Counter-Reformation; and the decisive effects of the interaction of European Catholicism in the Counter-Reformation period with missionary experience outside Christian Europe. This work of high scholarship will be an invaluable source of new ideas and insights for both student and the specialist.
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