The Growth of the Secular Clergy and the Development of Educational Institutions in the Diocese of Novara (1563–1772)

The Counter-Reformation initiated a long period of growth in the numbers of the secular and religious clergy of Catholic Europe. Mario Rosa has observed that in Italy the clerical population reached its peak in the first half of the eighteenth century, when Montesquieu described the peninsula as a ‘...

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Main Author: Deutscher, Thomas (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1989
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 1989, Volume: 40, Issue: 3, Pages: 381-397
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