Italian Cardinals, Reform, and the Church as Property, 1492-1563 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520049376)

"In the heart of her book Hallman performs an amazing feat: patiently tracing the acquisition, trading, subdividing, leasing, and renting of pieces of property that also happened in most cases to carry with them the cure of souls. She does so without losing the reader in a mass of detail by combining quantitative generalizations with examination of aptly chosen individual cases. . . . In short, she demonstrates that the sixteenth-century Italian Church, to alter slightly the epithet used by Ginzburg's Menocchio, was increasingly "a prelates' business." This is a very important book. Not only will it serve those scholars in various disciplines who wich to trace the patronage networks of individual Italian cardinals. As I have indicated, it will also stimulate those interested in reformulating existing paradigms and periodization schemes in early modern European history." --Anne Jacobson Schutte, Lawrence University, in Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 40, Number 2, Summer, 1987.

Author: Barbara McClung Hallman
ISBN-10: 0520049373
ISBN-13: 9780520049376
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 12/04/1985
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d