Outram Evennett was a university lecturer in history at Cambridge
and a Fellow of Trinity College. This book, based on his Birkbeck
Lectures of 1951, represents some twenty years' work on the sources
of the Counter-Reformation. Evennett did not live to complete his
task, but he has provided a remarkable synthesis of the vast
European literature on this subject. His method was to isolate the
special and positive characteristics of the Counter-Reformation and
to account for them in relation to the environment in which they
developed. This approach is highly original; it sees in the spirit
of the Counter-Reformation an attempt not to check but to extend
and come to terms with the more individualistic and modern
environment in which the Catholic Church found itself. The Jesuits
are treated as agents of this change. Dr John Bossy has edited
these lectures for publication and added a Postscript, analysing
some of the problems raised in the years since the lectures were
delivered. Professor David Knowles pays tribute to Evennett's
memory in a Foreword.
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