Papers by Nelson H Minnich
The Catholic Historical Review, 2009
Councils of the Catholic Reformation. Pisa I () to Trent (-). Ashgate, Aldershot ... more Councils of the Catholic Reformation. Pisa I () to Trent (-). Ashgate, Aldershot , xii + pp. isbn . . Dans le présent ouvrage regroupant un choix d'articles divers déjà publiés, Nelson H. Minnich traite la période commençant en , avec le Concile de Pise, et allant jusqu'au Concile de Trente qui s'achève en . Des prises de position récentes, vers , ont suscité un regain d'intérêt pour la messe en latin et le rite tridentin. Cet ouvrage revêt donc un certain caractère d'actualité pour les milieux catholiques. L'auteur maîtrise parfaitement les sources, décrets, canons, annales, documents en latin, italien, allemand, anglais, ainsi que le latin d'église. Il ne perd pas de vue les contextes historiographiques, historiques, psychologiques et spirituels; il tient compte des diverses mentalités religieuses et rites à l'époque en cause, particulièrement mouvementée, notamment aux quinzième et seizième siècles où les objectifs primordiaux concernent alors la restauration de l'unité et de l'autonomie de l'Église catholique, la réconciliation avec les églises orthodoxes, puis la récupération des protestants. La chronologie de ces réunions révèle la périodicité de ces sessions, l'allongement et la multiplicité de leur durée, ainsi que la récupération des lieux de ces assemblées: Pise (); Rome (-); Constance (-); Pavie-Sienne (-); Bâle-Lausanne (); Ferrare-Florence-Rome (-); Pise II-Milan-Asti-Lyon (); Latran (-); Trente-Bologne-Trente (-). Au fil des réunions, le problème de suprématie s'est posé entre le concile et le pape. Nelson H. Minnich a scrupuleusement examiné les annales, procèsverbaux, témoignages et des documents anciens et récents. Il fait état des réactions des théologiens et des historiens, de l'évolution des mentalités religieuses et des aspects particuliers tels que le statut des protestants à l'époque du Concile de Trente, les implications ultérieures dans les divers pays et diocèses. Il souligne aussi les actions des papes successifs, la fonction et le statut des prêtres; le rôle des écoles théologiques; les avis des pères conciliaires dénonçant certains abus dans la vie de l'église et la vie quotidienne, participant aussi à la réalisation des divers livres officiels destinés à la liturgie. Ce vaste bilan de recherche au niveau international est très éloquent, hautement spécialisé et circonstancié. Il projette un éclairage diversifié et actualisé sur l'apport et l'influence des conciles (notamment celui de Latran V sur celui de Trente) qui permettent de faire le point de la situation de l'Église catholique à une époque donnée et considérée avec le recul indispensable.
Renaissance and Reformation, 2005
Catholic University of America Press eBooks, Sep 7, 2017
Routledge eBooks, Oct 24, 2018
Routledge eBooks, Oct 24, 2018
Catholic Historical Review, Jul 1, 2015
Catholic Historical Review, 2019
Theological Studies, May 1, 1986
Catholic Historical Review, 2018
Volume 101 of the journal consisted of 1004 pages of articles, essays, book reviews, brief notice... more Volume 101 of the journal consisted of 1004 pages of articles, essays, book reviews, brief notices, and the quarterly sections Notes and Comments, Periodical Literature, and Other Books Received, with an additional twenty-four pages of preliminar)' material. It also contains two centennial supplements: the first of 111 pages, the second of 285 pages. Three indices (one general and one each for the two supplements) added 31 pages, so that volume 101 totaled 1455 pages. Subsidies from authors and contributions from others made directly to the journal allowed for the addition of pages above those budgeted. Professor Paul F. Grendler of Chapel Hill, NC (emeritus of the University of Toronto), once again generously made such a contribution.Of the fourteen regular articles published, one treated a medieval topic, two early-modern European, four late-modern European, four American, one Latin American, one Caribbean, and one Canadian. Half of their authors came from American institutions; the other half came from Belgian, Canadian, Chilean, Grenadan, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese universities. In addition, there were two essays in the series Journeys in Church History: one from a scholar of the ancient period, the other of the early modern. Two Forum Essays-one dealing with a book on the ancient period and another on the early modern-had contributions by scholars from Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The authors of the three Review Essays came from Italy, the United States, and Vatican City. Two Centennial Retrospective articles by an American scholar traced the history of the journal and its relationship to the American Catholic Historical Association.The two Centennial Supplements were dedicated to different themes. The first, edited by Maureen C. Miller, treated Catholic Material Culture and included six articles. The second, edited by Nelson H. Minnich, was a retrospective of the journal's contributions in eight areas of church history. The contributors to these centennial supplements were from among the leading scholars in their fields.In 2015 the journal published 202 book reviews and two brief notices. The book reviews can be subdivided into the following categories: general and miscellaneous (21), ancient (9), medieval (53), early modern (50), late modern (24), American (24), Latin American (14), Asian/Australian (4), Canadian (2), and African (1). Their authors came mostly from institutions in the United States (130 or 64%), but those in other countries were also represented: in England/Ulster/ Wales (31 or 15%), Canada (10 or 5%), Belgium (4), Germany (4), Italy (4), Scotland (3), Australia (2), and The Netherlands (2), with one each from Argentina, Finland, France, Ireland, Israel, Malta, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. The two brief notices were by authors at institutions in the United States. Please see table 1.The book review editor, Msgr. Robert Trisco, reports:Readers of the journal must have been dismayed to find listed in "Other Books Received" 121 titles of valuable books that scholars have accepted but neither reviewed nor returned to the editorial office. One must wonder about their professional ethics.The journal received thirty-four new submissions of articles in 2015. …
Catholic Historical Review, 2018
Volume 101 of the journal consisted of 1004 pages of articles, essays, book reviews, brief notice... more Volume 101 of the journal consisted of 1004 pages of articles, essays, book reviews, brief notices, and the quarterly sections Notes and Comments, Periodical Literature, and Other Books Received, with an additional twenty-four pages of preliminar)' material. It also contains two centennial supplements: the first of 111 pages, the second of 285 pages. Three indices (one general and one each for the two supplements) added 31 pages, so that volume 101 totaled 1455 pages. Subsidies from authors and contributions from others made directly to the journal allowed for the addition of pages above those budgeted. Professor Paul F. Grendler of Chapel Hill, NC (emeritus of the University of Toronto), once again generously made such a contribution.Of the fourteen regular articles published, one treated a medieval topic, two early-modern European, four late-modern European, four American, one Latin American, one Caribbean, and one Canadian. Half of their authors came from American institutions; the other half came from Belgian, Canadian, Chilean, Grenadan, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese universities. In addition, there were two essays in the series Journeys in Church History: one from a scholar of the ancient period, the other of the early modern. Two Forum Essays-one dealing with a book on the ancient period and another on the early modern-had contributions by scholars from Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The authors of the three Review Essays came from Italy, the United States, and Vatican City. Two Centennial Retrospective articles by an American scholar traced the history of the journal and its relationship to the American Catholic Historical Association.The two Centennial Supplements were dedicated to different themes. The first, edited by Maureen C. Miller, treated Catholic Material Culture and included six articles. The second, edited by Nelson H. Minnich, was a retrospective of the journal's contributions in eight areas of church history. The contributors to these centennial supplements were from among the leading scholars in their fields.In 2015 the journal published 202 book reviews and two brief notices. The book reviews can be subdivided into the following categories: general and miscellaneous (21), ancient (9), medieval (53), early modern (50), late modern (24), American (24), Latin American (14), Asian/Australian (4), Canadian (2), and African (1). Their authors came mostly from institutions in the United States (130 or 64%), but those in other countries were also represented: in England/Ulster/ Wales (31 or 15%), Canada (10 or 5%), Belgium (4), Germany (4), Italy (4), Scotland (3), Australia (2), and The Netherlands (2), with one each from Argentina, Finland, France, Ireland, Israel, Malta, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. The two brief notices were by authors at institutions in the United States. Please see table 1.The book review editor, Msgr. Robert Trisco, reports:Readers of the journal must have been dismayed to find listed in "Other Books Received" 121 titles of valuable books that scholars have accepted but neither reviewed nor returned to the editorial office. One must wonder about their professional ethics.The journal received thirty-four new submissions of articles in 2015. …
Routledge eBooks, Oct 24, 2018
Routledge eBooks, Oct 24, 2018
The American Historical Review, Apr 1, 2019
the mercy of their owners and thus irrelevant as loci of civic behaviour. Murphy shows this not t... more the mercy of their owners and thus irrelevant as loci of civic behaviour. Murphy shows this not to be the case: owners had to compete for urban settlers and therefore had to offer them significant individual freedoms and collective autonomy in order to maintain the attractiveness and economic viability of their towns. Third, Murphy strongly and convincingly challenges 'the continued hegemony of the Enlightenment narrative of progress', pointing instead to 'the costs of modernity' (24) and the profoundly colonial nature of Enlightened reforms. By studying the reports of central governments as well as the records, petitions and protests of townspeople, Murphy shows that the centralizing efforts of Polish, Austrian, Russian and Napoleonic administrations were not as rational as they portrayed themselves to be. They often privileged frivolous aspects such as 'beautification and hierarchy' (57, 84), thereby not only failing to revive the towns but actually pushing them into further economic, cultural and social decline. Lastly, the book substantiates an idea put forward by Andrzej S. Kamin´ski but so far insufficiently explored empirically, namely that the culture of civic republicanism-generally considered a trait of the political nation, the nobility-deeply permeated other layers of the Polish-Lithuanian society as well. Murphy argues that this culture was not 'anachronistic and backward' but simply centred on other values than those at the core of the Enlightenment: self-government and liberty instead of centralization and uniformization. The book contains countless examples of late-eighteenth-century Christian and Jewish burghers, who, thanks to the imperfect overlap of competing authorities that left them room for agency and autonomy, saw themselves as citizens, rather than subjects, regardless of their meagre political rights at the central level. A century later, after several rounds of reforms that gave them wider political rights but gradually subordinated them to the state, they were no longer acting as citizens, but as subjects with little say in their own affairs. From the civic republican perspective, their story thus becomes 'a tale of antiprogress, a decline in political possibilities and self-government with little compensation or improvement' (235). Instead of accepting the narrative of the Enlightenment as a rational system of social and political improvement, Murphy refreshingly approaches it as a belief system instead-one that was especially liable to fail when grafted onto a world animated by radically different values, such as liberty and self-government. The Enlightened narrative may have eventually won the day, but that is no reason for silencing the voices of those who experienced, first-hand, the costs of modernity.
During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Catholic Church celebrated more general councils than dur... more During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Catholic Church celebrated more general councils than during any similar period in its history. The Council of Pisa I, 1409 attempted to end the Great Western Schism but instead succeeded in adding a third pope. To bolster his position, the Pisan pope called a council that met in Rome, 1412–1413. The Council of Konstanz, 1414–1418 healed the schism but introduced new issues by declaring the superiority of a council over all Christians and requiring the celebration of councils on a regular basis. In accord with that requirement, a council was held at Pavia-Siena, 1423–1424, with another later at Basel-Lausanne, 1431–1449. The pope tried to transfer the latter council to Ferrara (1437), but the majority of the fathers remained at Basel. The Council of Ferrara (1438–1439) moved to Florence (1439), where it issued decrees uniting the Eastern and Latin churches and condemning the council still being held at Basel. The papal council ended in Rome (1445). In their conflict with Julius II, some cardinals and rulers called a council that met at Pisa (1511) but then transferred to Milan, Asti, and Lyons (1511–1512). To combat that council, Julius II called his own council to meet in the Lateran Basilica in Rome (Lateran V, 1512–1517). These eight councils dealt with themes of church unity (healing schisms), ultimate authority (pope or council), doctrinal issues (the teachings of Wyclif, Hus, Falkenberg, Grabon, and Favaroni; Filioque, Eucharist, Purgatory; immortality of the soul, montes pietatis; etc.), Crusades (attempts to fend off the Turks), and reform (of morals, pastoral care, preaching, education of clergy, the privileges of religious orders, etc.). Scholars have debated the legitimacy of various councils and the origins, meaning, reception, and implementation of their decrees.
The American Historical Review, Jun 1, 2015
Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law
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Catholic Historical Review, 2022
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