1st Edition

Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean

By Sam Kennerley Copyright 2022
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation provides the first in-depth study of contacts between Rome and the Maronites during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This book begins by showing how the church unions agreed at the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-1445) led Catholics to endow an immense amount of trust in the orthodoxy of Christians from the east. Taking the... Read more

Introduction

1. Franciscans, Jacobites, and the Development of Maronite Historiography

2. Centre and Periphery: Rome and Mount Lebanon in the Reign of Pope Leo X (1513-1521)

3. Negotiating a world in motion: Exchanges between Rome and the Maronites from Pope Clement VII (1523-1534) to Pope Marcellus II (1555)

4. Collaborations between Maronites, eastern Christians, and Catholic Orientalists in Rome during the cardinalate of Marcello Cervini (1539-1555)

5. The Maronites as anti-Ottoman Agents: Their Correspondence with Emperor Charles V (1519-1556)

Conclusion

Biography

Sam Kennerley is Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University. He is co-editor of "The Reception of the Church Fathers and Early Church Historians in the Renaissance and Reformation, c.1470-1650", a special issue of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition.