| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford-Warburg studies |
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Oxford-Warburg studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- 'The clouds roar': Panvinio's early career -- Between church and empire: Panvinio's final decade -- Panvinio's history of papal elections -- Church history, censorship, and confessionalization -- Epilogue -- APPENDIX: the papal election decree of 1059 -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city's significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and shows how history-writing became part of a comprehensive formation of the image and self-perception of the papacy. By presenting and fully contextualizing the path-breaking works of the Augustinian historian Onofrio Panvinio (1530-68), this book shows what type of historical research was possible in the late Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. Historiography in this period by no means consisted entirely of commissioned works written for patrons; rather, a creative interplay existed between, on the one hand, the endeavours of authors to explore the past and, on the other hand, the constraints of patronage and ideology placed on them. This book sheds new light on the changing priorities, mentalities, and cultural standards that flourished in the transition from the Renaissance to the Catholic Reformation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed April 20, 2020) |
| Subject |
Panvinio, Onofrio, 1529-1568.
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Panvinio, Onofrio, 1529-1568. |
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Papacy -- Historiography
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Counter-Reformation.
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Counter-Reformation.
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Counter-Reformation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192533661 |
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0192533665 |
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9780192533678 |
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0192533673 |
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9780191844799 |
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0191844799 |
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