Introduction: What's in a Name? -- 1. How It All Began -- 2. Hubert Jedin and the Classic Position -- 3. England and Italy in Jedin's Wake -- 4. France, Germany, and Beyond -- Conclusion: There's Much in a Name.
"John O'Malley works out a guide
to the intellectual and historical developments behind the concepts of Catholic reform, the Counter Reformation, and, in his felicitous term, Early Modern Catholicism." "Trent and All That makes a case for subsuming the present confusion of terminology under the concept of Early Modern Catholicism. The term indicates clearly what this book demonstrates: that Early Modern Catholicism was an aspect of early modern history, which it strongly influenced and by which it was in itself in large measure determined."--BOOK JACKET.
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