| Can someone recommend a simple, beginner's book that will expain and sort out
| the issues of the Council of Trent? Perhaps there isn't such a thing, but I
| would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks. yrs, tom ault
Tom:
I pretty good place to start is John C. Olin's _Catholic Reform:
>From Cardinal Ximenes to the Council of Trent, 1495-1563_ (New
York: Fordham UP, 1990). It is actually a series of documents for
teaching, but the introductory essay does a nice job in placing
Trent in a fairly broad context.
John Bossy's Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 (Oxford, 1985),
would also be helpful.
And of course there is H. Jedin's installment in the Handbook of
Church History: always interesting to read, even if you find his
historiographical commitments irritating. :-)
Cheers
Jim
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