Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9780367760793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 140 str.

Sam Kennerley

Opis

This book provides the first in-depth study of contacts between Rome and the Maronites during the fifteenth and sixteenth century. It is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern Europe, as well as those interested in the Reformation, religious history, and the history of Catholic Orientalism.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Franciscans, Jacobites, and the Development of Maronite Historiography 2. Centre and Periphery: Rome and Mount Lebanon in the Reign of Pope Leo X (1513-1521) 3. Negotiating a world in motion: Exchanges between Rome and the Maronites from Pope Clement VII (1523-1534) to Pope Marcellus II (1555) 4. Collaborations between Maronites, eastern Christians, and Catholic Orientalists in Rome during the cardinalate of Marcello Cervini (1539-1555) 5. The Maronites as anti-Ottoman Agents: Their Correspondence with Emperor Charles V (1519-1556) Conclusion

O autorze

Sam Kennerley is Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University. He is co-editor of "The Reception of the Church Fathers and Early Church Historians in the Renaissance and Reformation, c.1470-1650", a special issue of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition.