Counter Reformation, Catholic Reformation, the Baroque Age, the
Tridentine Age, the Confessional Age: why does Catholicism in the
early modern era go by so many names? And what political
situations, what religious and cultural prejudices in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave rise to this confusion?
Taking up these questions, John O'Malley works out a remarkable
guide to the intellectual and historical developments behind the
concepts of Catholic reform, the Counter Reformation, and, in his
felicitous term, Early Modern Catholicism. The result is the single
best overview of scholarship on Catholicism in early modern Europe,
delivered in a pithy, lucid, and entertaining style. Although its
subject is fundamental to virtually all other issues relating to
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, there is no other book
like this in any language.
More than a historiographical review, "Trent and All That"
makes a compelling case for subsuming the present confusion of
terminology under the concept of Early Modern Catholicism. The term
indicates clearly what this book so eloquently demonstrates: that
Early Modern Catholicism was an aspect of early modern history,
which it strongly influenced and by which it was itself in large
measure determined. As a reviewer commented, O'Malley's discussion
of terminology "opens up a different way of conceiving of the whole
history of Catholicism between the Reformation and the French
Revolution."
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