Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World

Van Liere, Katherine, Ditchfield, Simon, Louthan, Howard

ISBN 10: 0199594791 / ISBN 13: 9780199594795

Published by Oxford University Press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199594791
• ISBN 13: 9780199594795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

The first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its internal developments, in the two centuries from c. 1450 to c. 1650.

About the Author

Katherine Van Liere is professor of history at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Spain, and has published numerous articles on Renaissance humanism, education, and historiography. Her current research focuses on the historical writings of Ambrosio de Morales and Antonio Agustin.

Simon Ditchfield is reader in history at the University of York, England. He specialises in Roman Catholic history writing and uses of the past in early modern society (especially Italy). He is currently completing a history about the making of Roman Catholicism as a world religion for the Oxford History of the Christian Church series to be published by OUP. His next project will be a study of the world history of the Society of Jesus by Daniello Bartoli (1608-85).

Howard Louthan is professor of history at the University of Florida. He specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern central Europe. His most recent book examines the Catholic Reformation in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Bohemia. His current research focuses on the Reformation in Poland.