This rich volume by an interdisciplinary group of American and European scholars offers an innovative portrait of the complex formation of clerical and confessi

The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern soc

In the tumultuous period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when ecclesiastical reform spread across Europe, the traditional role of the bishop as a pub

Established in 1542, the Roman Inquisition operated through a network of almost fifty tribunals to combat heretical and heterodox threats within the papal terri

Explores the seismic impact of the dissolution of the monasteries, offering a new perspective on the English Reformation.