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The Ashgate Research Companion to
the Counter-Reformation
Edited by
Alexandra Bamji, Geert H. Janssen and Mary Laven
ASHGATE
RESEARCH
COMPANION
The AshgATe ReseARch comp Anion To
The counT eR-RefoRm ATion
ASHGATE
RESEARCH
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The Ashgate Research Companion
to the Counter-Reformation
Edited by
AlexAndRA BAmji
University of Leeds, UK
GeeRT H. JAnssen
University of Oxford, UK
mARy lAven
University of Cambridge, UK
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The Ashgate research companion to the Counter-Reformation.
1. Counter-Reformation.
I. Counter-Reformation II. Bamji, Alexandra. III. Janssen,
Geert H. IV. Laven, Mary, 1969-
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The Ashgate research companion to the Counter-Reformation / edited by Alexandra Bamji,
Geert H. Janssen, and Mary Laven.
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Includes index.
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1. Counter-Reformation. 2. Catholic Church–History. 3. Church history–16th century.
4. Church history–17th century. I. Bamji, Alexandra. II. Janssen, Geert H. III. Laven, Mary,
1969-
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction 1
Mary Laven
Part I ConflICt, CoexIstenCe and Convers Ion
1 TridentineCatholicism 15
Simon Ditchfield
2 Confessionalization 33
Ute Lotz-Heumann
3 ReligiousCoexistence 55
Keith P. Luria
4 TheExileExperience 73
Geert H. Janssen
5 TheInquisition 91
Nicholas S. Davidson
6 CatholicPamphleteering 109
Andrew Pettegree
7 CatholicMissionstoAsia 127
Tara Alberts
8 CatholicMissionstotheAmericas 147
Karin Vélez
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation
Part II CatholIC lIves and devotIonal IdentItIes
9 BeingaCatholicinEarlyModernEurope 165
Judith Pollmann
10 TheCatholicLifeCycle 183
Alexandra Bamji
11 TheSacredLandscape 203
Alexandra Walsham
12 Sanctity 225
Clare Copeland
13 TheCounter-ReformationoftheSenses 243
Wietse de Boer
14 LaySpirituality 261
Nicholas Terpstra
15 CatholicPietyandCommunity 281
Simone Laqua-O’Donnell
Part III Ideas and Cultural PraCtICes
16 IntellectualCulture 301
Michael Edwards
17 ScienceandtheCounter-Reformation 319
Nick Wilding
18 MusicandtheCounter-Reformation 337
Noel O’Regan
19 Counter-ReformationDrama 355
Paul Shore
20 ArtandtheCounter-Reformation 373
Andrea Lepage
21 MaterialCulture 395
Silvia Evangelisti
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Contents
Part Iv relIgIous Change
22 CatholicReformations:AMedievalPerspective 419
John H. Arnold
23 TheGlobalizationofReform 435
Karen Melvin
24 LegaciesoftheCounter-ReformationandtheOriginsof
ModernCatholicism 451
Mary Laven
Index 471
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List of Illustrations
0.1 Virgin of the Rosary of Guápulo, c. 1680, Cuzco school; Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2
7.1 Allegory of the spiritual conquest of Asia by the Jesuits; from
Francisco de Sousa, Oriente Conquistado a Jesu Christo pelos Padres da
Campanhia de Jesus da Provincia de Goa (1710); Cambridge University
Library S100.b.71.1. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics
of Cambridge University Library 132
7.2 Jesuits Matteo Ricci, Adam Schall and Ferdinand Verbiest and
Chinese converts Xu Guangqui and Candide Hiu; from J.B. du
Halde, Description … de l’Empire de la Chine (1735); Cambridge
University Library, Mm.9.6. Reproduced by kind permission of the
Syndics of Cambridge University Library 136
11.1 The Holy House of Loreto; from Orazio Torsellino, The History
of our B. Lady of Loreto, trans. T[homas] P[rice] ([St Omer], 1608),
facing sig. A1r. © The British Library Board, shelfmark 1482.a.39 208
11.2 The Madonna of the Beech, on the slopes of Monte Verna; from
Jacopo Ligozzo and Lino Moroni, Descrizione del Sacro Monte
della Verna (Florence, 1620), plate P. © The British Library Board,
shelfmark 206.i.4 211
11.3 Pilgrims circumambulating the ruined shrine of Our Lady of
Runxputte near Heiloo in the Netherlands; engraving by Frederik
de Wit, first published Amsterdam, c. 1690. Reproduced by
permission of the Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht / foto Ruben
de Heer 213
11.4 Atrial cross at Taximoroa, Mexico, with inset obsidian mirror.
Photograph courtesy of Nicholas Saunders. Reproduced by
permission of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia,
Mexico 220
13.1 Bartolomeo Del Bene, Civitas veri sive morum, 1609. Reproduced by
permission of The Vatican Library 251
20.1 Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1647−52; Cornaro
Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. Scala / Art Resource, NY 374
