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This volume provides the first geographically broad, comparative
survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history
of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its
institutional and doctrinal developments, in the two centuries from
c. 1450-1650. With deep medieval roots, ecclesiastical history was
generally a conservative enterprise, often serving to reinforce
confessional, national, regional, dynastic, or local identities.
But writers of sacred history innovated in research methods and in
techniques of scholarly production, especially after the advent of
print. The demand for sacred history was particularly acute in the
various movements for religious reform, in both Catholic and
Protestant traditions. After the Renaissance, many writers sought
to apply humanist critical principles to writing about the church,
but the sceptical thrust of humanist historiography threatened to
undermine many ecclesiastical traditions, and religious historians
often had to wrestle with tensions between criticism and piety.
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