The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation

In the last two decades, the history of the Counter-Reformation has been stretched and re-shaped in numerous directions. Reflecting the variety and innovation that characterize studies of early modern Catholicism today, this volume incorporates topics as diverse as life cycle and community, science and the senses, the performing and visual arts, material objects and print culture, war and the state, sacred landscapes and urban structures. Moreover, it challenges the conventional chronological parameters of the Counter-Reformation and introduces the reader to the latest research on global Catholicism.The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation presents a comprehensive examination of recent scholarship on early modern Catholicism in its many guises. It examines how the Tridentine reforms inspired conflict and conversion, and evaluates lives and identities, spirituality, culture and religious change. This wide-ranging and original research guide is a unique resource for scholars and students of European and transnational history. Part I. Conflict, coexistence and conversion. Tridentine Catholicism -- Simon Ditchfield Confessionalization -- Ute Lotz-Heumann Religious coexistence -- Keith P. Luria The exile experience -- Geert H. Janssen The Inquisition -- Nicholas S. Davidson Catholic pamphleteering -- Andrew Pettegree Catholic missions to Asia -- Tara Alberts Catholic missions to the Americas -- Karin Vélez -- Part II. Catholic lives and devotional identities. Being a Catholic in early modern Europe -- Judith Pollmann The Catholic life cycle -- Alexandra Bamji The sacred landscape -- Alexandra Walsham Sanctity -- Clare Copeland The Counter-Reformation of the senses -- Wietse de Boer Lay spirituality -- Nicholas Terpstra Catholic piety and community -- Simone Laqua-O'Donnell -- Part III. Ideas and cultural practices. Intellectual culture -- Michael Edwards Science and the Counter-Reformation -- Nick Wilding Music and the Counter-Reformation -- Noel O'Regan Counter-Reformation drama -- Paul Shore Art and the Counter-Reformation -- Andrea Lepage Material culture -- Silvia Evangelisti -- Part IV. Religious change. Catholic reformations : a medieval perspective -- John H. Arnold The globalization of reform -- Karen Melvin Legacies of the Counter-Reformation and the origins of modern Catholicism -- Mary Laven. 'In the last two decades, the history of the Counter-Reformation has been stretched and re-shaped in numerous directions. Reflecting the variety and innovation that characterize studies of early modern Catholicism today, this volume incorporates topics as diverse as life cycle and community, science and the senses, the performing and visual arts, material objects and print culture, war and the state, sacred landscapes and urban structures. Moreover, it challenges the conventional chronological parameters of the Counter-Reformation and introduces the reader to the latest research on global Catholicism. The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation presents a comprehensive examination of recent scholarship on early modern Catholicism in its many guises. It examines how the Tridentine reforms inspired conflict and conversion, and evaluates lives and identities, spirituality, culture and religious change. This wide-ranging and original research guide is a unique resource for scholars and students of European and transnational history.