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The Renaissance Papacy 1400â1600
Series: - The Renaissance Society of America, Volume: 22
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After having been weakened by the Great Western Schism, the papacy recovered its leadership position during the Renaissance. It expanded and reformed its bureaucracy, gained control over councils and cardinals, and established its authority over the Papal States and the city of Rome, which it developed and beautified. The papacy also negotiated working relationships with civil rulers through concordats and resident nuncios, worked to defend Christendom from Muslim conquest, sought to bring the Eastern churches into unity with Rome, promoted the expansion of Christendom through missions, tried to suppress heresies and clarify Catholic doctrine, and removed many abuses. To a remarkable degree, it succeeded.
Nelson H. Minnich, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1977), is Professor of History and Church History at the Catholic University of America and editor of the Catholic Historical Review. He publishes on the papacy and church councils, most recently editing the Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent (2023) and co-editing the Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology (2024).
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Maps
Notes on Contributors
List of Popes
1 Renaissance Papacy
âNelson H. Minnich
2 Ecclesiologies: Popes, Cardinals, and Council
âFrancis A. Oakley
3 Renaissance Papal Court and Curia
âNelson H. Minnich
4 The Papal States
âChristine Shaw
5 Rome: Urban Government, Society, Economy, Religion
âAnna Esposito
6 Art and the Papacy
âIngrid D. Rowland
7 Relations with National States: 1400â1600
âSilvano Giordano
8 The Papacy and the Crusade, 1400â1600
âMargaret Meserve
9 The Renaissance Papacy and Missions outside Europe
âEmanuele Colombo
10 The Renaissance Papacy and Eastern Christianity: Greek and Slavic
âYury P. Avvakumov and Charles C. Yost
11a Relations between the Renaissance Papacy and the Oriental Churches: Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, and Ethiopian
âCharles C. Yost
11b Relations between the Renaissance Papacy and the Oriental Churches: The Syriac Churches
âNelson H. Minnich
12 The Papacy and Heresy
âAgostino G. Borromeoâ
13 The Papacy and Protestantism
âAgostino G. Borromeoâ
14 Reform and the Renaissance Popes
âJohn W. OâMalleyâ
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Maps
Notes on Contributors
List of Popes
1 Renaissance Papacy
âNelson H. Minnich
2 Ecclesiologies: Popes, Cardinals, and Council
âFrancis A. Oakley
3 Renaissance Papal Court and Curia
âNelson H. Minnich
4 The Papal States
âChristine Shaw
5 Rome: Urban Government, Society, Economy, Religion
âAnna Esposito
6 Art and the Papacy
âIngrid D. Rowland
7 Relations with National States: 1400â1600
âSilvano Giordano
8 The Papacy and the Crusade, 1400â1600
âMargaret Meserve
9 The Renaissance Papacy and Missions outside Europe
âEmanuele Colombo
10 The Renaissance Papacy and Eastern Christianity: Greek and Slavic
âYury P. Avvakumov and Charles C. Yost
11a Relations between the Renaissance Papacy and the Oriental Churches: Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, and Ethiopian
âCharles C. Yost
11b Relations between the Renaissance Papacy and the Oriental Churches: The Syriac Churches
âNelson H. Minnich
12 The Papacy and Heresy
âAgostino G. Borromeoâ
13 The Papacy and Protestantism
âAgostino G. Borromeoâ
14 Reform and the Renaissance Popes
âJohn W. OâMalleyâ
Index
This volume is of interest to scholars of the Renaissance, both secular and religious historians, specialists and students, libraries, and institutes. Each of its chapters addresses different specialities: bureaucracies, urban renewal, diplomacy, art, crusades, Eastern Christians, missions, theology, and church reform.
Keywords: papacy, Renaissance, Rome, Curia, ecclesiology, art, diplomacy, crusades, schism, missions, councils, reform, Leo X Medici, Paul III Farnese, Sixtus V Peretti.
Keywords: papacy, Renaissance, Rome, Curia, ecclesiology, art, diplomacy, crusades, schism, missions, councils, reform, Leo X Medici, Paul III Farnese, Sixtus V Peretti.
