Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World

by Howard Louthan, Simon Ditchfield, Howard P. Louthan

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This volume provides the first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its institutional and doctrinal developments, in the two centuries from c. 1450-1650. With deep medieval roots, ecclesiastical history was generally a conservative enterprise, often serving to reinforce confessional, national, regional, dynastic, or local identities...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199594791

ISBN13:9780199594795

Release Date:July 2012

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.7" x 9.4"

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Religion Religion & Spirituality

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