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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520049373
ISBN-139780520049376
eBay Product ID (ePID)1390139
Product Key Features
Book TitleItalian Cardinals, Reform, and the Church As Property, 1492-1563
Number of Pages246 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1985
TopicEurope / Italy, Religious, Christianity / General
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorBarbara Mcclung Hallman
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN84-008501
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal262/.135
Synopsis"In the heart of her book Hallman performs an amazing feat: patiently tracing the acquisition, trading, subdividing, leasing, and renting of pieces of property that also happened in most cases to carry with them the cure of souls. She does so without losing the reader in a mass of detail by combining quantitative generalizations with examination of aptly chosen individual cases. . . . In short, she demonstrates that the sixteenth-century Italian Church, to alter slightly the epithet used by Ginzburg's Menocchio, was increasingly "a prelates' business." This is a very important book. Not only will it serve those scholars in various disciplines who wich to trace the patronage networks of individual Italian cardinals. As I have indicated, it will also stimulate those interested in reformulating existing paradigms and periodization schemes in early modern European history." --Anne Jacobson Schutte, Lawrence University, in Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 40, Number 2, Summer, 1987.