Chapter VIII · THE COUNTER REFORMATION
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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 Paepste 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 roemischen Paepste, 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 Reformation 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 Reforme 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 roemische 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:
Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus. I ere partie: Bibliographie par les peres De Backer. 2eme partie par A. Carayan. Nouvelle ed. par C. Sommervogel. 10 vols. 1890-1909. Corrections et Additions par E. M. Riviere. 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 Jesuites. 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 Laendern deutscher Zunge im 16ten Jahrhundert. Band I. 1907.
H. Fouqueray: Histoire de la Compagnie de Jesus 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. Francois Xavier. 2 vols. Paris, 1912.
J. M. Cros: St. Francois 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 roemischen 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 recents 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 Fe and the Jew. 1908.
E. Schaefer: Beitraege 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 Buecher. 2 vols. 1883. (Standard).
J. Hilgers: Der Index der verbotenen Buecher. 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 Realencyclopaedie, Catholic Encyclopedia, &c.
G. H. Putnam: The Censorship of the Church of Rome. 2 vols. 1906.