Trent and all that

renaming Catholicism in the early modern era

by John W. O'Malley

2002 219 pages eng

Counter Reformation, Catholic Reformation, the Baroque Age, the Tridentine Age, the Confessional Age: why does Catholicism in the early modern era go by so many names? And what political situations, what religious and cultural prejudices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave rise to this co…