The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Hsia, R Po-Chia | Copyright information

The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors. By Robert Bireley. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 300. $65.00.)

Thanks to the scholarship of Professor Bireley, a Jesuit historian at Loyola University Chicago, we know the important role played by two Jesuit confessors in the politics of the Thirty Years' War. Adam Contzen and William Lamormaini, confessors to Maximilian of Bavaria and Ferdinand II of Austria respectively, exerted significant i...

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