Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular
This book offers a fresh, original and interdisciplinary interpretation of what the Catholic Reformation meant at local diocesan level in the face of attempts by Rome to regularize worship c. 1550-1700. In the process of protecting the spiritual integrity of their patria, representatives of Italian local history such as Pietro Maria Campi of Piacenza (1569-1649)—who provides the focus of this wide-ranging study—significantly broadened the boundaries of historical study and helped to lay the foundations of Italian national history writing.
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Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular
This book offers a fresh, original and interdisciplinary interpretation of what the Catholic Reformation meant at local diocesan level in the face of attempts by Rome to regularize worship c. 1550-1700. In the process of protecting the spiritual integrity of their patria, representatives of Italian local history such as Pietro Maria Campi of Piacenza (1569-1649)—who provides the focus of this wide-ranging study—significantly broadened the boundaries of historical study and helped to lay the foundations of Italian national history writing.
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Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular

Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular

by Simon Ditchfield
Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular

Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular

by Simon Ditchfield

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This book offers a fresh, original and interdisciplinary interpretation of what the Catholic Reformation meant at local diocesan level in the face of attempts by Rome to regularize worship c. 1550-1700. In the process of protecting the spiritual integrity of their patria, representatives of Italian local history such as Pietro Maria Campi of Piacenza (1569-1649)—who provides the focus of this wide-ranging study—significantly broadened the boundaries of historical study and helped to lay the foundations of Italian national history writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521462204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/09/1995
Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
Pages: 414
Product dimensions: 6.18(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.18(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Maps; 1. Introduction; Part I. Liturgy: 2. Reform of liturgy and the reinvention of historia sacra; 3. Hagiography as liturgy in a local context: the ecclesia placentina riformanda; Part II. Sanctity: 4. Early Christian martyr; 5. Aristocratic hermit; 6. Well-born nun; 7. Lay helper of the urban poor; 8. Visionary shepherdess; 9. Saintly pontiff; Part III. History: 10. Historia sacra as redemptor ecclesiarum italicarum; 11. The ecclesiastical roots of national historiography: Ferdinando Ughelli's Italia sacra; Bibliography; Index.
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