The Catholic nobility in Utrecht and Guelders, c. 1580-1702
This thesis examines the Catholic nobility in the provinces of Utrecht and Guelders in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on topics including the religious diversity within noble families, interconfessional interaction, religious tolerance and intolerance, the religiosity of the Catholic nobility and their support of the Holland Mission. The Catholic nobility as a socio-religious group is studied against the backdrops of Dutch society and of the Holland Mission, and their behaviour is understood in the context of the changing political, social and religious circumstances in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic.
Confession and Community in Seventeenth-Century France: Catholic and Protestant Coexistence in Aquitaine
Acknowledgments Introduction PT. 1. "VIVRE EN UNION ET CONCORDE, UNANIMEMENT, POUR LE BIEN DE LA REPUBLIQUE" Ch. 1. Was Layrac Typical? Ch. 2. The Institutional Community Ch. 3. Conflict and Arbitration Ch. 4. Sociability and Community PT. 2. "... N'AYANT PU RAMENER SON FILS A LA RELIGION" Ch. 5. Calvinism from Established Church to Sect Ch. 6. Folk Devotion and the Counter-Reformation Ch. 7. The Nature of Confessional Ambiguity Ch. 8. Religious Identity and Competing Reference Groups Ch. 9. European Dimensions of Confessional Coexistence Sources Bibliography Index
Francis Xavier. His Life, His Times
EUREKA! Francis Xavier redivivus! Thanks to the meticulous, lifelong research of Georg Schurhammer, S.]., and the equally painstaking translation of]oseph Costelloe, S.J., the English-speaking world has access to this definitive biography of Xavier (or at least to two of the four German volumes Volume III on India and Indonesia, 1547-1549, and Volume IV on Japan and China, 1549-1552, have not yet been translated into English). English readers have a great debt of gratitude to Fr. ] ames Brodrick, S.J., for introducing them to the real Xavier in his skillfully written biography (Saint Francis Xavier, London: 1952). Brodrick was able to humanize and demythologize Francis, but Schurhammer feels he did this at the cost of historical reliability and through the belittlement of the hero's natural traits (See footnote Volume I, p. 439). In Volume II, Schurhammer gives added evidence which enables the reader to judge for oneself. Schurhammer has filled out and completed what Brodrick started. Both have done great and loyal service in bringing Xavier out of the rarefied atmosphere of hagiography. Perhaps Brodrick relied on a little Freudian "psycho-graphy" in his attempt to extradite Francis from hagiography. Schurhammer, on the other hand, supplied the