Italian Cardinals, Reform, and the Church as Property

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ID23144302
AuthorsBarbara McClung Hallman (corresponding author)
Year1985
Publication date1985-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueItalian Cardinals, Reform, and the Church as Property (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520352186
OpenAlexW2048301101
ISBN9780520352186
LanguageEN
Citations received7

"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.

Epistemology · Genealogy · Law and economics · Property (philosophy) · Sociology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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