Title
Trent : what happened at the council / John W. O'Malley.
ISBN
9780674067608 (electronic book)
9780674066977
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations, map
Call Number
BX830 1545 .O43 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
262/.52
Summary
During the council's eighteen years, war and threat of war among the key players, as well as the Ottoman Turks' onslaught against Christendom, turned the council into a perilous enterprise. Its leaders declined to make a pronouncement on war against infidels, but Trent's most glaring and ironic silence was on the authority of the papacy itself. The popes, who reigned as Italian monarchs while serving as pastors, did everything in their power to keep papal reform out of the council's hands -- and their power was considerable. O'Malley shows how the council pursued its contentious parallel agenda of reforming the Church while simultaneously asserting Catholic doctrine. -- Publisher
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
The fifteenth-century prelude
The struggle to convoke the council
The first period, 1545-1547
The middle years, 1547-1562
The council resumes, 1562-1563
The council concludes
Epilogue
Appendix A: The twenty-five sessions of the Council of Trent
Appendix B: The Tridentine profession of faith.
