Sacred history : uses of the Christian past in the Renaissance world /

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Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Description:	xvi, 339 p. : ill., maps : 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Church history -- Historiography -- History. Church history -- Modern period, 1500- Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. Renaissance. Church history -- Historiography. Church history -- Middle Ages. Church history -- Modern period. Renaissance. Europe -- Church history. Europe. Church history. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8860692

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Other authors / contributors:	Van Liere, Katherine Elliot, 1964- Ditchfield, Simon. Louthan, Howard, 1963-
ISBN:	9780199594795 0199594791
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-324) and index.
Summary:	This volume provides the first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its institutional and doctrinal developments, in the two centuries from c. 1450-1650. With deep medieval roots, ecclesiastical history was generally a conservative enterprise, often serving to reinforce confessional, national, regional, dynastic, or local identities. But writers of sacred history innovated in research methods and in techniques of scholarly production, especially after the advent of print. The demand for sacred history was particularly acute in the various movements for religious reform, in both Catholic and Protestant traditions.

Table of Contents:

List of Maps and Figures
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Bibliographical Note
Part I. Church History in the Renaissance and Reformation
1. Church History in Early Modern Europe: Tradition and Innovation
2. Primitivism, Patristics, and Polemic in Protestant Visions of Early Christianity
3. Cesare Baronio and the Roman Catholic Vision of the Early Church
4. What Was Sacred History? (Mostly Roman) Catholic Uses of the Christian Past after Trent
Part II. National History and Sacred History
5. The Germania illustrata, Humanist History, and the Christianization of Germany
6. Renaissance Chroniclers and the Apostolic Origins of Spanish Christianity
7. Imagining Christian Origins: Catholic Visions of a Holy Past in Central Europe
8. Elizabethan Histories of English Christian Origins
9. Reconstructing Irish Catholic History after the Reformation
Part III. Uses of Sacred History in the Early Modem Catholic World
10. The Lives of the Saints in the French Renaissance c.1500-c.1650
11. Doubting Thomas: The Apostle and the Portuguese Empire in Early Modern Asia
12. Cultural History in the Catacombs: Early Christian Art and Macarius's Hagioglypta
13. Scholarly Pilgrims: Antiquarian Visions of the Holy Land
Bibliography
Index

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