Simon DITCHFIELD
University of York, History, Faculty Member
The first two parts of "The Unbelieved" argued for the possibility of the existence of supernatural beings and for their agency in historical writing. This instalment is a roundtable assessing the problems and potential in the category of... more
The first two parts of "The Unbelieved" argued for the possibility of the existence of supernatural beings and for their agency in historical writing. This instalment is a roundtable assessing the problems and potential in the category of the Unbelieved and in its knowability. Space limitations prevented our following the rich avenues of further inquiry our extraordinary peer reviewers suggested, but we remain grateful, especially for their reminders of the complexity of motivations of historians who avoid the Unbelieved and their emphasis on the importance of humility as a historian's tool.
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From: Peter Marshall ed. THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION, (OUP, 2015)
First published in S. Ditchfield ed. Christianity and Community in the West: essays for John Bossy (Farnham: Ashgate, 2001).
First published in Bollettino storico piacentino, LXXXIV, 1989
First published in A. Bamji, G. Janssen & M Laven eds. The Ashgate research companion to the Counter-Reformation (2012)
First published in: Studia Borromaica 20 (2006): 145-54.
First published in: 'La Reforme en France et Italie: Contacts, Comparaisons et Contrastes', edited by P. Benedict, S. Seidel Menchi and A. Tallon. Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome, 2007.
First published in: Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume VI: Reform and Expansion, 1500-1600, edited by R. Po-Chia Hsia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
First published in: 'Cesare Baronio tra santita' e scrittura storica', edited by Giuseppe Antonio Guazzelli, Raimondo Michetti e Francesco Scorza Barcellona, Rome: Viella, 2012, pp. 3-21
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History 101 (2010): 186-208
First published in 'Ite Infiammate Omnia: Selected Historical Papers from Conferences Held at Loyola and Rome in 2006', edited by T. M. McCoog, Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2010, pp. 413-39.
Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe, edited by W. Coster and A. Spicer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
In AAVV eds., Studi in Memoria di Cesare Mozzarelli, 2 vols, Milan: Vita & Pensiero, 2008, I, pp. 585-606
First published in M. Firpo ed. "Nunc alia tempera, alii mores": storici e storia in eta post-tridentina, Florence, Olschki, 2005, pp. 3-23
Published in Peter Clarke & Tony Claydon eds. GOD'S BOUNTY: THE CHURCHES AND THE NATURAL WORLD, Studies in Church history vol. 46, (2010), 144-68
Published in 'Studia borromaica', 25 (2011), 3-33
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Livre: The unintended reformation how a religious revolution secularized society (hardback) GREGORY Brad S.
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This is the outline programme of a one-day conference being held in the Institute of Historical Research, University of London on the theme of 'Translating Christianity'. For further details please contact the conference secretary Michael... more
This is the outline programme of a one-day conference being held in the Institute of Historical Research, University of London on the theme of 'Translating Christianity'. For further details please contact the conference secretary Michael Walsh on mjwalsh@heythrop.ac.uk
Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of the Council, in Europe and... more
Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of the Council, in Europe and beyond. Their conclusions are to be found in these three impressive volumes. Bridging together different generations of scholarship, the authors reassess in the first volume Tridentine views on the Bible, theology and liturgy, as well as their reception by Protestants, deconstructing myths surviving in scholarship and society alike. They also deal with the mechanisms 'Rome' developed to hold a grip on the Council's implementation. The second volume analyzes the changes in local ecclesiastical life, initiated by bishops, orders and congregations, and the political strife and confessionalisation accompanying this reform process. The third and final volume examines the afterlife of Trent in arts and music, as well as in the global impact of Trent through missions.
Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean History, Hagiography, Early Modern History, Habsburg Studies, Early Modern (Japanese History), and 21 moreEarly Modern Italy, Printing History, Early Modern France, Moravian (Church History), Early Modern Catholicism, Spanish Colonial Peru, Liturgical History, History of the Spanish-Habsburg Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire (History), Biblical Exegesis, Conciliarism, Early Modern Japan, Council of Trent, Philipp Melanchthon, Medieval Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Catholic Liturgy, Religious Orders, History of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, Early Modern English Catholicism, History of the Church Councils, and Early Modern Bishops
MAISON FRANÇAISE D’OXFORD BOOK LAUNCH AT CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, RAINOLDS ROOM (MERTON ST, OXFORD OX1 4JF) TUESDAY 25TH APRIL 2017 2.00 PM – 6.00 PM ECCLESIOLOGY AND POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST Réduire le schisme ? Ecclésiologies... more
MAISON FRANÇAISE D’OXFORD
BOOK LAUNCH AT CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, RAINOLDS ROOM
(MERTON ST, OXFORD OX1 4JF)
TUESDAY 25TH APRIL 2017
2.00 PM – 6.00 PM
ECCLESIOLOGY AND POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Réduire le schisme ? Ecclésiologies et politiques de l’Union entre Orient et Occident (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècles), éd. Marie-Hélène Blanchet et Frédéric Gabriel, Paris, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2013 (Monographies, 39).
L’Union à l’épreuve du formulaire : Professions de foi entre églises d’Orient et d’Occident (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle), éd. Marie-Hélène Blanchet et Frédéric Gabriel, Paris, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2016 (Monographies, 51).
BOOK LAUNCH AT CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, RAINOLDS ROOM
(MERTON ST, OXFORD OX1 4JF)
TUESDAY 25TH APRIL 2017
2.00 PM – 6.00 PM
ECCLESIOLOGY AND POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Réduire le schisme ? Ecclésiologies et politiques de l’Union entre Orient et Occident (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècles), éd. Marie-Hélène Blanchet et Frédéric Gabriel, Paris, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2013 (Monographies, 39).
L’Union à l’épreuve du formulaire : Professions de foi entre églises d’Orient et d’Occident (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle), éd. Marie-Hélène Blanchet et Frédéric Gabriel, Paris, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2016 (Monographies, 51).
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This volume, edited Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, focuses on Rome from 1492 to 1692, an era of striking renewal: religious, demographic, economic, artistic, intellectual, and urban. Rome’s most distinctive... more
This volume, edited Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, focuses on Rome from 1492 to 1692, an era of striking renewal: religious, demographic, economic, artistic, intellectual, and urban. Rome’s most distinctive aspects—including its twin governments (civic and papal), unique role as the seat of global Catholicism, disproportionately male population, and status as artistic capital of Europe—are examined from numerous perspectives. This book of 30 chapters, intended for scholars and students across the academy, fills a noteworthy gap in the literature. It is the only multidisciplinary study of 16th- and 17th-century Rome that synthesizes and critiques past and recent scholarship while offering innovative analyses of a wide range of topics and identifying new avenues for research.