Product Description: This collection of essays is taken from the pages of The Catholic Historical Review, the official organ of the American Catholic Historical Association and the only scholarly journal under Catholic auspices in the English-speaking world devoted to the history of the Universal Church...read more

Product Description: This new collection by Nelson Minnich deals with the general councils of the Catholic Reformation in the late medieval and early modern periods. The volume opens with overviews of the various editions of and current scholarship on these general councils...read more

Product Description: The Fifth Lateran Council has often been dismissed as of minor signifiance, being poorly attended, and, with the benefit of hindsight, because it failed to prevent the Protestant Reformation. Nelson Minnich's research, exploiting a mass of unused archival material, had helped to transform this picture, and he argues, as did contemporaries, that it could be seen as a success, given the limitations imposed upon it by circumstances beyond its control...read more

Product Description: This volume opens with four studies on the Fifth Lateran Council, to complement those in Professor Minnich's other volume. They focus on how the council functioned, including its relations with the Eastern churches, and how it was received, given that the poor implementation of its decrees led to its validity as a legitmate council being questioned...read more