Main Italian Cardinals, Reform, and the Church as Property, 1492-1563

Italian Cardinals, Reform, and the Church as Property, 1492-1563

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"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. 
Request Code : ZLIBIO4254111
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Year:
1985
Edition:
1
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
English
Pages:
246
ISBN 10:
0520049373
ISBN 13:
9780520049376
ISBN:
0520049373,9780520049376
Series:
California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy

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