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This volume is well worth the attention of a broad range of church historians and historians of religious culture. It examines crucial issues about religious authority and its exercises, issues that may have some interesting parallels today. -Thomas Worcester, Sixteenth Century Journal Historians specializing in religion and the church in early modern Europe explore the crisis and reform involving Catholic bishops during the 16th and 17th centuries. -Research Book News This volume of essays, all of which are based on original research, is quite distinctive in the way it presents the development of episcopacy in the age of the tridentine reformation. By presenting Europe's bishops-from England to Italy-in their many roles, it shows just how difficult it was to reform such powerful figures. The essays unobtrusively introduce readers to the historiographies of several European countries, and thereby achieve a comprehensiveness that will encourage further reflection and, above all, further research on a major historical subject. -Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester

This volume of essays, all of which are based on original research, is quite distinctive in the way it presents the development of episcopacy in the age of the tridentine reformation. By presenting Europe's bishops-from England to Italy-in their many roles, it shows just how difficult it was to reform such powerful figures. The essays unobtrusively introduce readers to the historiographies of several European countries, and thereby achieve a comprehensiveness that will encourage further reflection and, above all, further research on a major historical subject. -Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester Historians specializing in religion and the church in early modern Europe explore the crisis and reform involving Catholic bishops during the 16th and 17th centuries. -Research Book News This volume is well worth the attention of a broad range of church historians and historians of religious culture. It examines crucial issues about religious authority and its exercises, issues that may have some interesting parallels today. -Thomas Worcester, Sixteenth Century Journal

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Jennifer Mara DeSilva completed a PhD in history at the University of Toronto, where she examined the role of papal ritual and the Office of Ceremonies in early modern Italy. Her published research includes articles that focus on the intersection of public display, diplomacy, social mobility, and ecclesiastical authority. Currently she is assistant professor of history at Ball State University.

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