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Discussion topics and Essay Questions

• Are the Reformation and Counter-Reformation better seen as competing or complementary forces?
• To what extent did the religion practised by the Catholic laity change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
• What were the principal challenges in establishing Catholicism as a 'global' religion?
  

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Documents

**NOTE: Some eresources are accessible only on-campus or via off-campus proxies or the athens service**

Texts	[InterpretLink opens in a new window]	Images	[InterpretLink opens in a new window]
'Decree on Justification (1547)Link opens in a new window', 6th session of the Council of Trent (esp. 'On Justification' canons) Index of Prohibited BooksLink opens in a new window from the Roman Office of the Inquisition (1557-1966) St. Ignatius of Loyola, Extracts from The Spiritual ExercisesLink opens in a new window, trans. Mullen (1914) St. Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection, Prologue Link opens in a new window(1560s) 'On Transubstantiation'Link opens in a new window, 13th session of the Council of Trent		Map of Europe c. 1560 - detailing the progress of the Reformation Titian, The Council of Trent J. David, (1545?-1613) Seven Sacraments FontLink opens in a new window El Greco, St. Francis kneeling in meditationLink opens in a new window (1587-97) Titian, Pope Paul IIILink opens in a new window Caravaggio, The Incredulity of St ThomasLink opens in a new window (1601-02) Pietro Bernini, The Assumption of the Virgin MaryLink opens in a new window (cf. Simon Pozzo, St Ignatius Loyola AltarLink opens in a new window (1680s) Simon Schama, 'The Power of Art' (BBC): CaravaggioLink opens in a new window Simon Schama, 'The Power of Art' (BBC): BerniniLink opens in a new window

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Audio and Video Links

Radio 4 programme 'In Our Time' on The Jesuits Trailer for film 'Silence'Link opens in a new window, directed by Martin Scorsese (2016) Search for suitable versions of the following pieces on https://www.youtube.comLink opens in a new window Palestrina, Missa Papae Marcelli, 'Kyrie'

Missa De Batalla, Gloria (La Capella Reial De Catalunya)

Vivaldi, Gloria, 'Cum sancto spiritu'

Grandi, O Quam Tu Pulchra Es, from Ghirlanda Sacra

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Secondary literature

Selected Key Texts

• A. Bamji et al. (eds), The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation (2013) (ebook), esp. chs 1, 2, 5, 6
• R. Birely, The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation (1999) (ebook), esp. chs 1, 2, 3, 5

• J. Bossy, 'The Counter Reformation and the people of Catholic Europe', Past and Present, 47 (1970)
• A. G. Dickens, The Counter Reformation (1968)
• R. P. Hsia, The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770 (1998), esp chs 1, 2 (digital scan of ch. 1 'The Council of Trent' available hereLink opens in a new window)
  
• D.M. Luebke (ed.), The Counter-Reformation: Essential Readings (1999), esp. chs. 1, 4
• P. Marshall, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation (2015) (ebook), ch. 5 by Simopn Ditchfield
• R. Miola, Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (2007) (ebook) [primary source collection]
• M. Mullett, The Catholic Reformation (1999) (ebook), esp. chs 2, 3, 5, 6

Further reading

a) The European Catholic Reformation

• J. Bergin, 'The Counter Reformation Church and its bishops'Link opens in a new window, Past & Present 165 (1999)
• R. Birely, 'The Peace of Prague (1635) and the Counter Reformation in Germany'Link opens in a new window, Journal of Modern History 48 (1976)
• W. Christian, Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain (1981), chs 2, 5
• L. Chatellier, The Europe of the Devout: the Catholic Reformation and the Formation of a New Society (1989), esp. chs 7, 8, 10
• N. Davidson, The Counter Reformation (1987)
• J. Delumeau, Catholicism between Luther and Voltaire: A New View of the Counter-Reformation (1977)
• R.L. DeMolen, Religious Orders of the Catholic Reformation (1994)
• J. Dillenberger, Images and relics: theological perceptions and visual images in sixteenth-centuryLink opens in a new window (1999) (ebook)
  
• H.O. Evennett, ‘The New Orders’ in G. Elton (ed.) New Cambridge Modern History: Vol. 2 The Reformation, 1520-1559 (1990) (ebook) ch. 9
• A. Fisher, Music and Religious Identity in Counter-Reformation Augsburg (2003)
• M. Jones, The Counter Reformation: Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe (1995)
• H. Louthan, The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna Link opens in a new window(1997) (ebook)
  
• K. Noreen, 'Ecclesiae militantis triumphi: Jesuit Iconography and the Counter- Reformation'Link opens in a new window, Sixteenth Century Journal 29 (1998)
• J.C. Olin, Catholic Reform: From Cardinal Ximenes to the Council of Trent, 1495-1563: An Essay with Illustrative Documents and a Brief Study of St. Ignatius Loyola (1990)
• J.W. O’Malley, Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era (2000)
• T.M. Parker, ‘The Papacy, Catholic Reform, and the Christian Missions’, in G. Elton (ed.) New Cambridge Modern History: Vol. 2 The Reformation, 1520-1559 (1990) (ebook)
• J.J. Scarisbrick, The Jesuits and the Catholic Reformation (Hist.Assoc., 1988)
• P. Soergel, Wondrous in his saints: Counter-Reformation propaganda in Bavaria (1993) (ebook)
  
• L. Taylor,‘The influence of humanism on post-Reformation Catholic preachers in France’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997)
  
• A. Wright, The Early Modern Papacy: from the Council of Trent to the French Revolution 1564-1789 (2000)

b) Global Catholicism

• T. Alberts, Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500-1700 (2013), chs. 1, 4, 5, 7
• A. Bamji et al. (eds), The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation (2013) (ebook), esp. chs 7, 8, 23
  
• R. Birely, The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation (1999) (ebook), chs 7, 8
• L.M. Brockey, Journey to the East: the Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 (2007) (ebook)
  
• J. Gernet, China and the Christian Impact: A Conflict of Cultures (1985)
• Hsia, R. Po. Chia, The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770 (1998), chs 11 and 12
• J.F. Moran, The Japanese and the Jesuits: Alessandro Valignano in sixteenth-century Japan (1993) (ebook)
  
• J.J. Scarisbrick, The Jesuits and the Catholic Reformation (Hist.Assoc., 1988)
• J.D. Spence, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (1984)
• J. Thornton, ‘The Development of an African Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1491–1750’, The Journal of African History, 25 (1984), 147–67

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External Links

Reformation Primary Sources Link opens in a new window- see documents in section on 'Counterreformation & Katholic Reformation'

'The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent' - transcription of decrees coming out of each session

Vulgate BibleLink opens in a new window - transcription of the Latin Vulgate Bible

Gutenberg BibleLink opens in a new window - copies of Johann Guternberg's Bible (c.1450)