Reforms of Christian life in sixteenth-century Italy /

Mazzonis, Querciolo,

Reforms of Christian life in sixteenth-century Italy / Querciolo Mazzonis ; translated by Laurence Steinman and Querciolo Mazzonis. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Reforms of Christian Life presents a new narrative of the role of the Barnabites and Angelics, the Ursulines and the Somascans (founded in northern Italy in the 1530s by Battista da Crema, Angela Merici and Girolamo Miani) within sixteenth-century Italian reforming movements. Reforms of Christian Life is a useful tool for students and scholars of medieval and early modern religious and cultural history"--

9781003166573


Monasticism and religious orders
Confraternities--Italy

271.009 MAZ.R