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When Paul III was elected in 1534, hopes arose across Christendom
that this pope would at last reform and reunite the Church. During
his fifteen-year reign, though, Paul's engagement with reform was
complex and contentious. A work of cultural history, this book
explores how cultural narratives of honour and tradition, including
how honour played out in politics, significantly constrained Pope
Paul and his chosen reformers in framing strategies for change.
Indeed, the reformers' programme would have undermined the culture
of honour and weakened Rome's capacity to ward off current threats
of invasion. The study makes a provocative case that Paul called
the Council of Trent to contain reform rather than promote it.
Nevertheless, Paul and the Council did sow seeds of reform that
eventually became central to the Counter-Reformation. This book
thus sheds new light on a pope whose relationship to reform has
long been regarded as an enigma.
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