Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 historical writing became part of a comprehensive formation of the image and self - perception of the papacy. By presenting and fully contextualising the path - breaking works of the Augustinian historian Onofrio Panvinio (1530 - 1568) Stefan Bauer shows what type of historical research was possible in the late Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. Crucial questions were for example: How were the pontiffs elected? How many popes had been puppets of emperors? Could any of the past machinations schisms and disorder in the history of the Church be admitted to the reading public? 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 ideology and censorship placed on them. The Invention of Papal History sheds new light on the changing priorities mentalities and cultural standards that flourished in the transition from the Renaissance to the Catholic Reformation.
Title: The Invention Of Papal History Onofrio Panvinio Between Renaissance And Catholic Reform
Author(s): Bauer Stefan (Lecturer In Early Modern History Lecturer In Early Modern History King's College London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198807001
Pages: 276 Pages, 11 Black And White Figures/Tables
Publication Date: 2/16/2020
Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies
Category: Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church