Kathleen Comerford

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Georgia Southern University

The _Journal of Jesuit Studies_ seeks paper and panel proposals on the subject of early modern (c. 1450-1650) Jesuit history, literature, art, music, and related disciplines for possible inclusion in the program of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference's Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, 29 October-1 November, 2020.

The European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project is a census of books once owned by a Jesuit college or house in Europe between the 1550s and 1773. The suppression of the Society of Jesus led to the dispersal of its books, and the ejlpp uses both manuscript inventories and searches in modern libraries to locate the volumes once associated with the...

S.J. (1548–1617) is recognized as a philosopher, theologian, and jurist who had a significant cultural impact in the development of modernity. Commemorating the 400th anniversary of his death, our symposium will study the work of Suárez and other Jesuits of his time in the context of diverse traditions that came together in Europe between the late...

Come le armadure e l’armi: Per una storia delle antiche biblioteche della Compagnia di Gesù; con il caso di Perugia. Natale Vacalebre. Biblioteca di bibliografia: Documents and Studies in Book and Library History 205. Florence: Olschki, 2016. xxi + 292 pp. €35. - Volume 71 Issue 2 - Kathleen M. Comerford

Call for Papers, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, August 2016

This excellent volume begins with an interpretation of a Latin American Madonna and child and progresses through four major areas of research into early-modern Catholicism (twenty-four articles divided unevenly among the sections “Conflict, Coexistence and Conversion,” “Catholic Lives and Devotional Identities,” “Ideas and Cultural Practices,” and...

Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England. By ShellAlison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 244 pp. $95.00 cloth; $36.99 paper. - Volume 80 Issue 1 - Kathleen M. Comerford

This slim volume is a welcome translation of La réforme du catholicisme (1480–1620) (Paris, 2002), with additional annotation by the translator, James Farge, to make it suitable for English-speaking audiences and to expand the critical apparatus for those seeking further information. As Bedouelle notes, the purpose of the book is to address (althou...

In 1563, the Council of Trent mandated the opening of diocesan seminaries to give low‐level instruction in pastoral duties for boys aged 12 years and older who were destined for the priesthood. This essay considers the early history of seminaries in four Tuscan dioceses of varying size and importance: Fiesole, Lucca, Pienza, and Pisa, in terms of t...

A paradise inhabited by devils. The Jesuits' civilizing mission in early modern Naples. By Jennifer D. Selwyn. (Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700/Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societis Iesu, 57.) Pp. xiv+278. Aldershot: Ashgate/Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2004. £50. 88 7041 357 8 - Volume 57 Issue 1 - KATHLEEN M. COMERFORD

Councils and bishops in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Tuscan dioceses emphasized vocation and the cura animarurn in their efforts to reform the parish clergy after the Council of Trent. The desired criteria for pastoral behavior were relatively simple, yet in many instances conformity was elusive. While synods and visitations clearl...

This article explores several dioceses in Tuscany—Arezzo, Fiesole, Lucca, Montepulciano, Siena, and Volterra—in light of the foundation of diocesan seminaries, to determine if a new corps of priests was produced and if that corps instituted major changes. Historians refer to post-Tridentine attempts to strengthen the faith and power of groups and i...

The Catholic Historical Review 87.3 (2001) 508-509 Recinti: Donne, clausura e matrimonio nella prima età moderna. By Gabriella Zarri. [Saggi, 516.] (Bologna: Il Mulino. 2000. Pp. 480 and index of names. Lire 48,000; Euros 24.79.) This book is a collection of articles, all but one (chap. 4) previously published in Italian from 1986 to 1999 (chap. 6...

After the 1563 Decree concerning Seminaries of the Council of Trent, each diocese was required to open a diocesan seminary. This article presents the foundation dates of Italian Tridentine diocesan seminaries and information concerning the procedure for opening such institutions. Since education was an integral part of the Catholic Reform, studying...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 329-374). Photocopy.