Early Modern Catholicism

Catholic rights discourse in nineteenth-century Germany: Bishop Ketteler protected religious and social freedoms from the equal threats of secularizing liberalism and …

by Martin O'Malley

Jesus+Golgotha+Medici Alter+Mary Queen of Scots..

by Frank Dougan

My visit to the Holy Sepulchre Basilica, Jerusalem, Israel; February 2012

Jesus+Golgotha+Medici Alter+Mary Queen of Scots..

All pictures presented and directed by; Frank... more Jesus+Golgotha+Medici Alter+Mary Queen of Scots..

All pictures presented and directed by; Frank Dougan...


Jerusalem

He sat on a donkey on palm strewn paths

Cries of delight arose from the mouths

The First born Son of God Christ Jesus.

To the temple he was led

There the money changers the people were bled

He cast them out of the House of His Father

The Sanhedrin were in a rage

Who is this Man to whom multitudes did gather?

He taught a new ideology of the age.

Secret plans they did form to bring Him down

To rob Him of His holy crown

Pilate and the Roman lords were sought

A price of 30 silver coins His friend was bought

At the Garden of Gethsemane from a kiss He was put in chains

Plans to kill Him for their ill-gotten gains

Pilate washed his hands of the affair he could find no crime

The high priest Caiaphas mind was distorted with grime

On His 6th day in Jerusalem they hung Him on a cross

He called to heaven that none of His sheep were lost

His promise to Peter He would return

The start of a new beginning had begun

Jesus is the Messiah the Chosen One.

He cried out loud before He went away

“Eli, Eli, Lama sabachthani”?

His dead corps was taken down and in a crypt buried

On the 3rd day from His death His word delivered

The Son of Man rose from the dead at the hand of Rome

In Jerusalem the spark of light was born Jesus was in His holy home.

By Frank J Dougan


Inside the Basilica of The Holy Sepulchre....is Golgotha (Calvery) where Jesus Christ was executed.....

The Holy Sepulchre Basilica also contains the tomb where Jesus lay...and rose from the dead!

At the foot of where The Cross stood stands the Medici Alter...

Mary Queen of Scots name is inside the Medici Alter!

The Medici Alter was commissioned a few months after Mary was martyrd!

The Alter is on the exact spot where Jesus lay after He was taken down from the cross and Held in His Mother Mary's arms!

Catherine de Medici was the mother Francis II of France....Mary was married to him!

The 11th Station - the Latin (Catholic) chapel.

The chapel's striking altar marks the 11th Station, the site at which Jesus was nailed to the Cross. A fine example of Renaissance art, the altar was made in Florence in 1588 and given to the church by Cardinal Medici a few decades later.

Look for the Medici name. Six panels of hammered silver (four in font and one on each side) depict scenes from the Passion.

— in Jerusalem, Israel.

Does the Priest Have to Be There? Contested Marriages Before Roman Tribunals. Italy, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 3, 2009, 10-30.

by Cecilia Cristellon

The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more... more The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more witnesses be present at the marriage (1563), but neglected to specify who the parish priest was. The decrees provoked confusion among both laymen and churchmen. Traces thereof can be found in the hitherto essentially unexplored documentation of The Congregation of the Council. This institution was founded in 1564 specifically to resolve the questions that arose all over the catholic world by the application of the decrees promulgated at Trent. The related records are held in the Vatican Secret Archive. Through an examination of this documentation, complemented by files of the Holy Office the author analyzes how the new rules were understood, experienced, used, circumvented, and manipulated both by laymen and churchmen in order to end an unwanted marriage, to facilitate a union that was socially transgressive, opposed by family, or even heterodox, and to respond to pastoral concerns.

Missionaria o in pericolo di apostasia? Donne cattoliche e matrimoni misti nei dibattiti del Sant’Ufficio, in: Famiglia e religione nella prima eta` moderna. Saggi in onore di Silvana Seidel Menchi, Hg. Ciappelli, G., Luzzi, S., Rospocher, M. (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2011), 175-186.

by Cecilia Cristellon

'Correspondence from Jean-Baptiste Devenet and Claude Prost, book merchants of Lyon, to Fr Luke Wadding OFM, 1647-1654,' Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 104 (2011), 519-45.

by Benjamin Hazard

Rather French than Subject to the Prince of Orange. The Conflicting Loyalties of the Utrecht Catholics during the French Occupation (1672-73), in Church history and religious culture, 87, 2007, 4, pp. 509-533

by Bertrand Forclaz

Les parures de la mortification

by Antoine Roullet

Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635

by Judith Pollmann

" Each Should Tend His Own Garden": Anna Bijns and the Catholic Polemic against the Reformation

by Judith Pollmann

S.Villani, «"Una piccola epitome di Inghilterra". La comunità inglese di Livorno negli anni di Ferdinando II: questioni religiose e politiche», Cromohs, 8 (2003): 1-23

by Stefano Villani

Stefano Villani in “‘A little epitome of England:’ The English Community of Leghorn in the Years of Ferdinand II:... more Stefano Villani in “‘A little epitome of England:’ The English Community of Leghorn in the Years of Ferdinand II: Religious and Political Questions,” begins by describing the “prehistory” of the English community of Livorno since 1570s, he then identifies the turning point of the first phase of the life of this “nation” in the year 1621. In that year, thanks to the formal intervention of King James I, the consul of the English nation was designated by the Levant Company, and not, as previously, by Trinity House. This decision reflects the increased status of Livorno as the major hub for British commerce in the Levant. In this essay the religious and political debate that characterized England during the half-century from 1620s to 1670s is shown to have also dominated the growing mercantile community in Livorno. In March 1667, in an attempt to obtain the Pope’s consent for the presence of a chaplain to the English nation, the English diplomatic representative John Finch wrote (in Italian) to Edward Courtney – rector of the English College in Rome – requesting he use its good offices with the Congregation of the Holy Office. The letter threatened possible retaliation against Catholics in England with Finch describing Livorno as “a small epitome of England” (“piccola epitome d’Inghilterra”). This is perhaps the best definition of the English nation in Livorno that over the years had acted as a microcosom of the divisions and conflicts of the motherland. It was composed of Catholics and Protestants, royalists and parliamentarians, partisans of Charles II and supporters of Cromwell, of members of the Church of England and Nonconformists. The increasing number of British ships in the Mediterranean that stopped at Livorno in the second half of the 1600s brought not only tin and herrings but also Quakers, English Bibles and revolutionary ideas. This lively and conflictual context is the background to the business of the English nation, and this is the first attempt to reconstruct it. If the tolerance theorist Henry Robinson, who lived in Livorno in 1630s, surely elaborated his views drawing on his experiences in Italy, Villani highlights that the long struggle for religious freedom that the English community of Livorno engaged in with the political and religious Tuscan authorities contributed in some measure to creating the unique identity of that city, atypical in the European political landscape because of its composite and multi-ethnic nature.

Raymond D. Tumbleson,'Catholicism in the English Protestant Imagination'

by Jodi A. Campbell

Christopher Highley, Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008. 248 pp.# 59.00 hardback. …

by Jodi A. Campbell

Queer Gifts: Eros, Affect, and Effluvia in Richard Crashaw’s Sacred Poems

by Karma deGruy

Under review.

“In Vulnera Dei pendentis” (“On the wounds of God hanging”) is typical of Richard Crashaw’s sacred poems in its... more “In Vulnera Dei pendentis” (“On the wounds of God hanging”) is typical of Richard Crashaw’s sacred poems in its intense attention to the wounded body of incarnate God.  As Richard Rambuss has demonstrated, “no English poet was more enraptured by the image of God enfleshed, uncovered, and rendered corporeally vulnerable than was Richard Crashaw” (Closet 26).  Indeed, the intensity of Crashaw’s gaze on the corporeal, vulnerable Christ and his wounded body has provoked responses from dis-ease to disgust.  These myriad wounds and blooming, bloody orifices have been examined by critics such as Rambuss, Ryan Netzley, and Eugene Cunnar, who have explored them as focal points for Crashaw’s Incarnational and Eucharistic imagery; I take my starting point from the effluvia that emerge from these orifices and the work that such effluvia perform.  The blood, sweat, and tears exuding from Crashaw’s poetic bodies become tangible relics of divine Passion and human affect; Crashaw imbues them with superlative value, along the way troubling notions of both aesthetic and theological decorum.  The two short lines in the above epigraph [Fixa manus ; dat, fixa : pios bona dextera rores / Donat, & in donum solvitur ipsa suum (His hand is pierced; pierced, it gives: the good right hand gives holy dews and is itself dissolved into its own gift)] contain a number of elements which recur in
Crashaw’s lyrics: the language of gift and exchange, the strangely liquid quality of the media of exchange in circulation between and among the participants in the exchange relationship, and the tendency of the gift, giver, and receiver to merge.  Through a poetics of gift exchange, Crashaw posits an ongoing reciprocal relationship between human and deity, earth and heaven; he imagines a libidinal, dynamic exchange economy from which the terrestrial and corporeal are not excluded but to which they are in fact integral.   

 "Les Histoires du P. Maimbourg ou le roman jésuite de l’antiromanisme gallican"

by Jean-Pascal Gay

in S. De Franceschi (éd.) Histoires Antiromaines, Chrétiens et Sociétés, Documents et Mémoires n°15, 2011, p. 35-61.

« Théologie morale et espace public dans la France du second XVIIe siècle. Réflexions sur la littérarisation d’une polémique »

by Jean-Pascal Gay

in P. Nagy, P. Ragon, M.-Y. Perrin (eds.),  Les controverses doctrinales. Entre débats savants et mobilisations populaires,  Publications des Université de Rouen et Havre, Rouen, 2011, p. 132-142.

Review of Guy G.[edaliahu] STROUMSA, A New Science: the Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason [Cambridge, MA-London: Harvard University Press, 2010]

by Eugen Ciurtin

Published in Archaeus. Studies in the History of Religions 15 (2011), fasc, 3, pp. 509-521 [November 2011].
Published in Archaeus. Studies in the History of Religions 15 (2011), fasc, 3, pp. 509-521 [November 2011].

Legitimation and Resistance: Bellarmine’s Political Theory amid Contemporaneous Conflicts

by Aaron Sanders

Given at the SCSC, 27 Oct 2011.

Robert Bellarmine's high-profile involvement in early 17th century political contests has typically been interpreted... more Robert Bellarmine's high-profile involvement in early 17th century political contests has typically been interpreted as an attempt to maintain papal political power in a reordered post-Reformation Europe.  In this paper, on the other hand, the author seeks to reposition this involvement as a pastoral activity.  Through more holistic reading of Bellarmine's corpus and re-examination of his historical context, one can begin to see a crucial distinction in Bellarmine's thought, namely, that between what the pope CAN do in temporal matters, and what he OUGHT to do.

Spanish Texts and the Rise of Anglicanism

by John Yamamoto-Wilson

Devotional literature and the eroticization of pain in 17th century England

by John Yamamoto-Wilson

This is the proto-version (published three years ago in the department journal of my university) of the paper published in Translation and Literature. The file appears incomplete (conclusion is missing), but I guess it's better than nothing.

Piracy and piracy: Edmund Bunny's Booke of Christian exercise (1584) and Henry Smith's Gods arrowe against atheists (1593)

by John Yamamoto-Wilson

This is a piece on Protestant piracy of the works of the Catholic controversialist Robert Parsons (or Persons).