Dominion of Redemption: Cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto between Curial Politics and Ecclesiastical Scholarship inTridentine Rome

With Charles V’s Imperial Coronation in 1530 in Bologna, the relationship between imperial and ecclesiastical government was reconfigured according to the Emperor’s sovereign capacities in administering the temporal concerns alongside the development of ecclesiastical affairs. This consolidation of Charles V’s imperial government represented a major challenge in respect to the Roman Curia’s insights regarding the contemporary theological conceptions contesting Roman ecclesiastical governmen...