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

by Howard Louthan, Simon Ditchfield, Howard P. Louthan

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"