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Between Popes, Inquisitors and Princes: How the First Jesuits Negotiated Religious Crisis in Early Modern Italy

by Jessica M. Dalton

  • Hardback
  • 232 pages
  • Publisher: Brill

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For history students and students of the Reformation

Unpacks how the Jesuits gained unique papal power

You gain fresh insight into early Jesuit influence

Discover how the first Jesuits navigated complex religious and political crises in sixteenth-century Italy.

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In Between Popes, Inquisitors and Princes Jessica Dalton uses extensive, original archival research to provide the first history of a unique and controversial papal privilege that allowed the first Jesuits to absolve heretics in sixteenth-century Italy without involving bishops or inquisitors. Dalton uses the story of this remarkable privilege to reconsider two central aspects of Jesuit history: their role in the Counter-Reformation and their relationship with the papacy. She convincingly argues that, in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation, the Jesuits were valued collaborators of popes, inquisitors and princes not for their obedience and subservience but rather because they worked with an autonomy and flexibility that allowed them to convert heretics where political barriers and popular hostility hindered inquisitors and prelates.

  • Title

    Between Popes, Inquisitors and Princes: How the First Jesuits Negotiated Religious Crisis in Early Modern Italy

  • Author

    Jessica M. Dalton

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    May 2020

  • Weight

    536g

  • Page Count

    232

  • ISBN

    9789004413825

  • ISBN-10

    9004413820

  • Eden Code

    5216051

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