Reviews for Histoire de l'eglise

The average rating for Histoire de l'eglise based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-08-21 00:00:00 Keekose Mani A very nice collection of essays on the rather diverse subject of (Renaissance and) Early Modern Catholicism, with a whole range of different subjects to bring light to the matter. It has something to offer to anyone interested in the subject (and by necessity some essays that will perhaps interest you less, but you might pick up titbits here and there). The ones I liked the most, personally, were the one on Erasmus of Rotterdam's Ars Moriendi, the one on how the Virgin Mary and Jesus were depicted for a Chinese audience and (which I didn't think I would find interesting before starting to read it) the one on preaching at the court of Pope Paul V.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-01-16 00:00:00 Natasha Enneking I cannot even describe the ways in which I love this book. A collection of essays that more or less demolish the idiotic historical commonplace that the Catholic Church was anything like a monolithic institution in the early modern period, and that the Council of Trent and/or Counter-Reformation inaugurated an era of clerical repression that destroyed the vibrant civilization of the Italian Renaissance. Jacob Burckhardt has a lot to answer for, but these essays do a lot to make up for it.