Publication

2020 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

176,250 words, Guess

Page Count

705 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004310964
  • ISBN-109004310967
  • OCLC Control Number1111950532
  • Better World Books9789004310964
  • Open LibraryOL35983672M

Classifications

  • LCCBX1815 .C66 2020

Description

"A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal is the first comprehensive overview of its subject in English or any language. Cardinals are best know as the pope's electors, but in the centuries from 1400 to 1800 they were so much more: pastors, inquisitors, diplomats, bureaucrats, statesmen, saints; entrepreneurs and investors; patrons of the arts, of music, literature, and science. Thirty-five essays explain their social background, positions and roles in Rome and beyond, and what they meant for wider society. This volume shows the impact which those men who took up the purple had in their respective fields and how their tenure of office shaped the entangled histories of Rome and the Catholic Church from a European and global perspective."--Back cover.

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