A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders

Harline, Craig E; Put, Eddy

ISBN 10: 0300083424 / ISBN 13: 9780300083422

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (2000), 2000

About this Item

Very Good Plus, internally clean, solid hard cover First Printing in a complete Near Fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (2000)
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300083424
• ISBN 13: 9780300083422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good Plus
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel, General and World History
  • Religion and Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

This absorbing book takes us back to the busy, colorful world of a Netherlandish Catholic bishop and his flock from 1596 to 1620. Based upon the recently discovered daybook of Mathius Hovius, the book focuses not only on his life but also on key events and characters of the period. Episodes in the lives of monks, nuns, pilgrims, peasants, saints, and others bring to life the experience of religion during the Counterreformation.

About the Author

Craig Harline, professor of history at Brigham Young University, is also the author of The Burdens of Sister Margaret. Eddy Put is senior assistant at the Belgian National Archives.