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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• FORRESTAL, ALISON

Titel

'Fathers, Leaders, Kings': Episcopacy and Episcopal Reform in the Seventeenth-Century French School

Ist Teil von

• The Seventeenth century, 2002-03, Vol.17 (1), p.24-47

Ort / Verlag

Durham: Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For the historian of the Catholic Reformation, perhaps its most striking feature was its concentration upon the reform of the clergy, an emphasis that can be traced in the decrees of the Council of Trent, through the establishment of new orders and through the efforts of bishops to discipline their clergy through provision of seminaries, synods and ecclesiastical conferences. Several studies have attempted to trace the means through which prominent reformers sought to influence the appointment of bishops in France and have referred to the 'type' of bishop which these clerics were keen to promote. Among other things Forrestal presents a brief summary of the channels utilized by these ecclesiastics to shape the contemporary episcopate, before exploring the principal features of their Episcopal ideal.