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The invention of papal history : Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic reform /

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How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city's significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bauer, Stefan, 1972- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Series:Oxford-Warburg studies.
Subjects:
Panvinio, Onofrio, > 1530-1568.
Panvinio, Onofrio, > 1530-1568
Papacy > Historiography.
Counter-Reformation.
Papauté > Historiographie.
Contre-Réforme.
Counter-Reformation
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 'The clouds roar': Panvinio's early career
  • Between church and empire: Panvinio's final decade
  • Panvinio's history of papal elections
  • Church history, censorship, and confessionalization
  • Epilogue
  • APPENDIX: the papal election decree of 1059
  • Bibliography
  • Index.