The Search for Authority in Reformation Europe by Elaine Fulton Helen Parish

Author:Elaine Fulton, Helen Parish [Elaine Fulton, Helen Parish]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409474364
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Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Published: 2014-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

1 J. Waterworth (trans), The Canons and Decrees of the Sacred and Oecumenical Council of Trent (London, 1848), p. 18. For more on this see the introduction to this volume, p. 4. For a summary of the fourth session of the Council of Trent, see Michael A. Mullett, The Catholic Reformation (London, 1999), pp. 39–41, and of course Jedin’s magisterial treatment of the subject: Hubert Jedin, A History of the Council of Trent, vol. 2, (London, 1961), chapter 2. Mullett comments that ‘the resolutions [at this session] formed the first of a series of decisions adopted which put clear water between Trent and Wittenberg’, p. 39.

2 Peter Marshall, ‘The Debate over ‘Unwritten Verities’ in Early Reformation England’, in Bruce Gordon (ed.), Protestant History and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe, vol. I (Aldershot, 1996), pp. 60–77, p. 62. See too David Bagchi, ‘Catholic theologians of the Reformation period before Trent’, pp. 220–32, p. 225 and David C. Steinmetz, ‘The Council of Trent’, pp. 233–47, pp. 237–8, both in Bagchi and Steinmetz (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology (Cambridge, 2004).

3 Canons and Decrees, p. 19. See, too, Gillian R. Evans, Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates (Cambridge, 1992), p. 72.

4 Canons and Decrees, p. 20. This decree would be reinforced by the issue of various indices of ‘Forbidden Books’; the Council of Trent later agreed to produce its own Index at the eighteenth session held in 1562. See Paul F. Grendler, ‘The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press, 1540–1605, Journal of Modern History, 47/1 (1975): pp. 48–65.

5 John A. McHugh and Charles J. Callan (trans), The Catechism of the Council of Trent (Rockford, IL, 1982), pp. xxiii–xxiv.

6 Ibid., p. xxiv.

7 Ibid., p.8, p. 4.

8 Ibid., pp. xxxiii–xxxiv.

9 Ibid., p. xxxv.

10 Canisius’ first version of the catechism, the Summa doctrinae christianae … in usum Christianae pueritiae, first published in 1555, was intended for university students and advanced grammar school students, unlike his Summa … ad captum rudiorum accommodata of 1556 which was aimed at very young children. Canisius’ Parvus Catechismus Catholicorum of 1558 was an intermediate text. See John O’Malley, The First Jesuits (Cambridge [MA], 1993), p. 123, for more on the Canisius catechisms.

11 Paul Begheyn, ‘The catechism (1555) of Peter Canisius, the most published book by a Dutch author in history’, Quaerendo, 36/1–2 (2006): pp. 51–84 for details of editions: my thanks to Ruth Atherton for drawing my attention to this article.

12 Ibid., 57.

13 Ibid., 57.

14 See Thomas B. Deutscher, ‘From Cicero to Tasso: Humanism and the education of the Novarese Parish Clergy (1565–1663)’, Renaissance Quarterly, 55/3 (2002): pp. 1005–27, p. 1008, for an example of how the Roman Catechism was used as a key part of training of parish priests.

15 Canons and Decrees, p. 187. For more on this crucial session see Mullett, Catholic Reformation, pp. 63–5.

16 By 1565 there were 3,500 Jesuits; while a substantial figure, by 1626 their number would reach 15,500. R. Po-Chia Hsia, The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540–1770 (Cambridge, 1998), p. 32. See too Hsia pp.

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