The Age of the Reformation

Chapter 37

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SECTIONS 1 and 2. _The Papacy and Italy 1521-1590_.

SOURCES:

C. Mirbt: _op. cit._

Consilium delectorum cardinalium et aliorum praelatorum de emendanda ecclesia 1537. In Mansi: _Sacrorum Conciliorum et Decretorum collectio nova_, 1751, Supplement 5, pp. 539-47. The same in German with Luther's notes in _Luther's Werke_, Weimar, vol. 50.

LITERATURE:

L. von Pastor: _A History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages_. English translation ed. by R. F. Kerr. Vols. 9-12. 1910 ff. (These volumes cover the period 1522-1549. Standard work dense with new knowledge).

L. von Pastor: _Geschichte der Päpste seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters_. Band VI. 1913; VII. 1920. (Of these volumes of the German, covering the years 1550-65, there is as yet no English translation).

P. Herre: _Papsttum und Papstwahl im Zeitalter Philipps, II_. 1907.

J. McCabe: _Crises in the History of the Papacy_. 1916. (Popular).

Mandel Creighton: _op. cit._

L. von Ranke: _History of the popes, their church and state, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries_, translated from the German by Sarah Austin. Vol. 1, 1841. (Translation of Ranke's _Die römischen Päpste_, of which the first edition appeared 1834-6. A classic).

H. M. Vaughan: _The Medici Popes_. 1908. (Popular, sympathetic).

G. Droysen: _Geschichte der Gegenreformation_. 1893. (Oncken's Series).

E. Rodocanachi: "La Réformation en Italic," _Revue des Deux Mondes_, March, 1915.

Lord Acton: _Lectures on Modern History_, 1906, pp. 108 ff.

J. A. Symonds: _The Catholic Reaction_. 2 vols. 1887.

G. Monod: "La Réforme Catholique," _Revue Historique_, vol. cxxi (1916).

B. Wiffen: _Life and Writings of Juan de Valdes_. 1865.

C. Hare: _Men and Women of the Italian Reformation_. (1913).

_Kirche und Reformation_. Unter mitwirkung von L. v. Pastor, W. Schnyder, L. Schneller usw. hg. von J. Scheuber. 1917.

"Counter-Reformation" in the _Catholic Encyclopaedia_.

G. Benrath: _Geschichte der Reformation in Venedig_. 1886.

J. Burckhardt: _op. cit._

SECTION 3. _The Council of Trent_

SOURCES:

_Concilium Tridentinum_. Diariorum, actorum, epistularum, tractatuum nova collectio. Edidit Societas Goerresiana. 1901 ff. In course of publication; as yet have appeared vols. 1-5, 8, 10.

J. Susta: _Die römische Kurie und das Komil von Trient unter Pius IV_. Aktenstucke zur Geschichte des Konzils von Trient. 4 vols. 1904-1914.

Le Plat: _Monumenta ad historiam Concilii Tridentini spectantia_. 7 vols. 1781-7.

_The Canons and Decrees of the Sacred and Ecumenical Council of Trent_, translated by J. Waterworth. 1848. Reprint, Chicago, 1917.

G. Drei: "Per la Storia del Concilio de Trento. Lettere inedite del Segretario Camille Olivo 1562." _Archivio Storico Italiano_ 1916.

P. Schaff: _The Creeds of Christendom_. Vol. 2, 1877. (Latin text and English translation of canons and decrees).

_The Cathechism of the Council of Trent_, translated into English by J. Donovan. 1829.

LITERATURE:

J. A. Froude: _Lectures on the Council of Trent_. 1899.

P. Sarpi: _The historie of the Councel of Trent_. 1620. (Translation from the Italian, which first appeared 1619).

A. Harnack: _Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte_,[4] 1910, vol. iii, pp. 692 ff. English translation, vol. vii, pp. 35-117.

Ranke's remark that there was no good history of the Council of Trent holds good today. The best, as far as it goes, is in Pastor.

SECTION 4. _The Jesuits_

SOURCES:

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. I ère partie: Bibliographie par les pères De Backer. 2ème partie par A. Carayan. Nouvelle ed. par C. Sommervogel. 10 vols. 1890-1909. Corrections et Additions par E. M. Rivière. 1911.

_Monumenta historica Societatis Jesu_, edita a Patribus ejusdem Societatis. Madrid, 1894-1913. 46 volumes.

_Cartas de San Ignacio de Loyola_, 6 vols. 1874-89.

_Acta Sanctorum_, July 7. 1731.

_The Autobiography of St. Ignatius_, English translation ed. by J. F. X. O'Connor. 1900.

_Letters and Instructions of St. Ignatius Loyola_, translated by D. F. O'Leary and ed. by A. Goodier. 1914.

_The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola_. Spanish and English, by J. Rickaby, S. J. 1915.

_Beati Petri Canisii, S. J., Epistulae et Acta_, ed. O. Braunsberger. 6 vols. as yet. 1896-1913.

LITERATURE.

H. Boehmer: _Les Jésuites_. Ouvrage traduit de l'allemand avec une Introduction et des Notes par G. Monod. 1910. (Standard work though very concise).

E. Gothein: _Ignatius von Loyola und die Gegenreformation_. 1895.

A. McCabe: _A Candid History of the Jesuits_. 1913. (Hostile but not unveracious).

B. Duhr: Geschichte der Jesuiten in den Ländern deutscher Zunge im 16ten Jahrhundert. Band I. 1907.

H. Fouqueray: _Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésus en France_. 2 vols. 1910-13.

E. L. Taunton: _The Jesuits in England_. 1901.

Francis Thompson: _Saint Ignatius Loyola_. 1913. (I mention this book by "a seventeenth century poet born into the nineteenth century" on account of the author's fame).

S. Brou: _St. François Xavier_. 2 vols. Paris, 1912.

J. M. Cros: _St. François de Xavier_, 2 vols. Toulouse, 1900.

On Xavier see also Mirbt, _op cit._, no. 350, A. D. White: Warfare of Science and Theology, 1896, ii, 5-22, and Pastor.

_Life of St. Francis Xavier_ by Edith A. Stewart, with translations from his letters by D. Macdonald. 1917. (Popular and sympathetic).

W. G. Jayne: _Vasco da Gama and his successors_ (1910), On Xavier, pp. 188 ff.

SECTION 5. _The Inquisition and the Index_

SOURCES:

P. Fredericq: _Corpus Documentorum Inquisitionis Neerlandicae_, vols. 4, 5., 1900 ff.

L. von Pastor: _Allegemeine Dekrete der römischen Inquisition 1555-97_. 1913.

_Mandament der Keyserlijcken Maiesteit_, vuytghegeven int Iaer xlvi. Louvain. 1546. One hundred facsimile copies printed for A. M. Huntington at the De Vinne Press, New York, 1896.

_Catalogi Librorum reprobatorum & praelegendorum ex iudicio Academiae Louaniensis_, Pinciae. MDLI. Mandato dominorum de consilio sanctae generalis Inquisitionis. One hundred facsimile copies printed for A. M. Huntington at the De Vinne Press, New York, 1895.

_Catalogus librorum qui prohibentur mandato Illustrissimi & Rev. D. D. Ferdinand de Valdes_, Hispalen. Archiepiscopi, Inquisitoris Generalis Hispaniae, 1559. One hundred facsimile copies printed at De Vinne Press, 1895.

LITERATURE.

H. C. Lea: _A History of the Inquisition in Spain_. 4 vols. 1906-7. Characterized by wide reading and the use of many manuscripts which Lea had copied from all European archives. A really wonderful work. The manuscripts on which it is based are still in his library in Philadelphia. I have been kindly allowed by his son and daughter to look over those on Spanish Protestantism.

H. C. Lea: _The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies_. 1908.

P. Fredericq: "Les récents historiens catholiques de l'Inquisition en France," _Revue Historique_, cix, 1912, pp. 307 ff. (A scathing criticism of the apologists of the Inquisition who have written against Lea).

E. N. Adler: _Auto de Fé and the Jew_. 1908.

E. Schäfer: _Beiträge zur Geschichte des spanischen Protestantismus und der Inquisition_. 3 vols. 1902.

G. Bushbell: _Reformation und Inquisition in Italien um die Mitte des XVI Jahrhunderts_. 1910.

F. H. Reusch: _Der Index der verbotenen Bücher_. 2 vols. 1883. (Standard).

J. Hilgers: _Der Index der verbotenen Bücher_. 1904. (Apologetic).

H. C. Lea: _Chapters from the Religious History of Spain connected with the Inquisition_. 1890. (Chiefly on the Index).

Articles: "Inquisition," "Holy Office," &c. in the _Encylopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Protestantische Realencyclopädie, Catholic Encyclopedia_, &c.

G. H. Putnam: _The Censorship of the Church of Rome_. 2 vols. 1906.