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A persuasive and nuanced account... There is little doubt that this carefully researched work will become one of the standards in the religious history of Spain.
Nalle succeeds in truly writing a solid cultural history. She is devoted to an understanding of the material base without being a reductionist, and is able to explore ideas without losing sight of commonalities and realities. Her book blends the best of microhistory with a certain Rankean meticulousness.
Until the middle of the seventeenth century, when complacency got the better of the good intentions of the 1560s, the Counter-Reformation triumphed in Spain. In this process, Nalle shows in her thorough study, persuasion was more effective than coercion. The Inquisition served as a means of spreading the Tridentine doctrine, and of registering the good results, rather than as an instrument of terror.
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Table of Contents
List of Tables and Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Cuenca on the Eve of the Council of Trent
Chapter 1. The Diocese of Cuenca — A Sketch
Chapter 2. Mixed Messages: The Pre-Reform in
List of Tables and Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Cuenca on the Eve of the Council of Trent
Chapter 1. The Diocese of Cuenca — A Sketch
Chapter 2. Mixed Messages: The Pre-Reform in Cuenca, 1482-1518
Chapter 3. Ramírez's Reform Program
Part II: The Tridentine Movement in Cuenca, 1545-1600
Chapter 4. The Impetus to Reform, 1545-1566
Chapter 5. Forging a Common Purpose: The Reports from Requena, Ribatajada, and Uclés
Chapter 6. "Seven Hundred Sixty Legions of Devils": The 1566 Diocesan Synod
Chapter 7. The Bishop's Recourse: The Episcopal Curia and the Congregation
Chapter 8. Inquisitors into Missionaries: The Holy Office in Cuenca, 1547-1600
Part III: Reform of the Secular Clergy, 1545-1600
Chapter 9. The Structure of the Diocesan Clergy
Chapter 10. The Minimum Training of Priests before Trent
Chapter 11. The Jesuits in Cuenca
Chapter 12. The Conciliar Seminary of San Julián
Chapter 13. Universities and the Reform of the Clergy
Chapter 14. The Sacerdotal Vocation
Chapter 15. The Geography of Reform
Part IV: Teaching a Lesson and Learning One
Chapter 15: Teaching Doctrine in the Parishes
Chapter 16: Schools for Doctrine and Missions
Chapter 17: Religious Pamphleteering and Indoctrination
Chapter 18: The Lesson Learned
Chapter 19: Towards Practicing Catholics
Part V: God in La Mancha
Chapter 20: Private Devotions
Chapter 21: Collective Faith
Part VI: Empire of the Dead
Chapter 22: Demographic and Economic Trends, 1591-1654
The Search for Protection
Alone before God
The Country Dead
Empire of the Dead
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
