Reflecting the variety and innovation that characterize studies of early modern Catholicism today, this volume incorporates topics as diverse as life cycle and community, science and the senses, the performing and visual arts, material objects and print culture, war and the state, sacred landscapes and urban structures.

Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction - Mary Laven
• Part I Conflict, Coexistence and Conversion
• 1 Tridentine Catholicism - Simon Ditchfield
• 2 Confessionalization - Ute Lotz-Heumann
• 3 Religious Coexistence - Keith P. Luria
• 4 The Exile Experience - Geert H. Janssen
• 5 The Inquisition - Nicholas S. Davidson
• 6 Catholic Pamphleteering - Andrew Pettegree
• 7 Catholic Missions to Asia - Tara Alberts
• 8 Catholic Missions to the Americas - Karin Vélez
• Part II Catholic Lives and Devotional Identities
• 9 Being a Catholic in Early Modern Europe - Judith Pollmann
• 10 The Catholic Life Cycle - Alexandra Bamji
• 11 The Sacred Landscape - Alexandra Walsham
• 12 Sanctity - Clare Copeland
• 13 The Counter-Reformation of the Senses - Wietse de Boer
• 14 Lay Spirituality - Nicholas Terpstra
• 15 Catholic Piety and Community - Simone Laqua-O'Donnell
• Part III Ideas and Cultural Practices
• 16 Intellectual Culture - Michael Edwards
• 17 Science and the Counter-Reformation - Nick Wilding
• 18 Music and the Counter-Reformation - Noel O'Regan
• 19 Counter-Reformation Drama - Paul Shore
• 20 Art and the Counter-Reformation - Andrea Lepage
• 21 Material Culture - Silvia Evangelisti
• Part IV Religious Change
• 22 Catholic Reformations: A Medieval Perspective - John H. Arnold
• 23 The Globalization of Reform - Karen Melvin
• 24 Legacies of the Counter-Reformation and the Origins of Modern Catholicism - Mary Laven