The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700. A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation

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The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700.A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation. By Robert Bireley. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 1999. Pp. vii, 231. $39.95 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.)

The learned Jesuit author of this concise textbook is well known for his studies, in English and German, on the relations of Catholic counsellors, especially members of the Society of Jesus, and statesmen of early modern Europe, and on Catholic statecraft at that time more generally. In this work he explicitly refers to the influence of another great scholar of the ...

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