Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O'Malley

By John W. O'Malley

Trent, the Catholic Church’s try to positioned its residence so as after the Reformation, has lengthy been praised and blamed for issues it by no means did. This one-volume heritage, the 1st nowa days, explores the risky concerns that driven a number of Holy Roman emperors, kings and queens of France, 5 popes, and all of Europe to the threshold of disaster.

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