Simon DITCHFIELD
University of York, History, Faculty Member
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PART I: CHURCH HISTORY IN THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION PART II: NATIONAL HISTORY AND SACRED HISTORY PART III: USES OF SACRED HISTORY IN THE EARLY MODERN CATHOLIC WORLD
Dans le Portugal d'Ancien Regime, les visites pastorales comportaient habituellement un volet disciplinaire au cours duquel les visiteurs menaient de veritables enquetes policieres reposant sur le mecanisme de la delation dans le but... more
Dans le Portugal d'Ancien Regime, les visites pastorales comportaient habituellement un volet disciplinaire au cours duquel les visiteurs menaient de veritables enquetes policieres reposant sur le mecanisme de la delation dans le but de decouvrir les eventuels pecheurs publics des paroisses. La documentation qui subsiste pour le diocese d'Algarve livre la trace de plus de 1400 visites effectuees entre 1630 et 1750 et conserve la memoire de plus de 6000 pecheurs publics dont les fautes sont evoquees a travers de nombreux registres de sentences et de plus de 250 rapports d'enquete contenant pres de 5000 depositions. Apres avoir decrit les cadres geographiques, juridictionnel et ar chivistique de cette histoire des visites d'Algarve, le second volet de l'etude a voulu retrouver les rythmes chronologiques et la geographie de la politique de la presence menee par les visiteurs sur le terrain paroissial. Suivent ensuite trois parties plus particulierement consacrees a la dimension disciplinaire de ces inspections [. . . ] Au dela de l'analyse de ce mecanisme de surveillance des populations d'Ancien Regime et de normalisation des comportements illicites en societe, cette etude est ainsi egalement l'occasion d'une rencontre avec "l'homme portugais" d'autrefois.
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Question: What is the difference between a liturgist and a terrorist? Answer: You can negotiate with a terrorist! As well-known, humour - by juxtaposing like with unlike - can make a serious point, concisely and memorably, and this quip,... more
Question: What is the difference between a liturgist and a terrorist? Answer: You can negotiate with a terrorist! As well-known, humour - by juxtaposing like with unlike - can make a serious point, concisely and memorably, and this quip, too, has a serious import. To begin with, the source for this joke was an Oratorian priest As will become clear, this is of more than passing significance - aside, that is, from the fact that their founder, St Philip Neri was well-known for his use of humour to mortify the spirit of his favourite disciples. For my principal concern in this paper is with ecclesiastical erudition (something of an Oratorian speciality during this period) and its relationship to the shape, content, and practice of Christian worship.
Over the last decade or so a 'quiet revolution'has been at work modifying the nineteenth-century myth about the secular origins of nationalism. In the field of French historiography, of particular importance has been not... more
Over the last decade or so a 'quiet revolution'has been at work modifying the nineteenth-century myth about the secular origins of nationalism. In the field of French historiography, of particular importance has been not only the work of Pierre Nora with his influential notion ...
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... 88 222 4938 0. SIMON DITCHFIELD a1 a1 UNIVERSITY OF YORK, ... L.39,000 (paper). 88 222 4938 0. SIMON DITCHFIELD (2004) The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 55, Issue 03, July 2004 pp 598-599 http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022046904680808. ...
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... 88 222 4938 0. SIMON DITCHFIELD a1 a1 UNIVERSITY OF YORK, ... L.39,000 (paper). 88 222 4938 0. SIMON DITCHFIELD (2004) The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 55, Issue 03, July 2004 pp 598-599... more
... 88 222 4938 0. SIMON DITCHFIELD a1 a1 UNIVERSITY OF YORK, ... L.39,000 (paper). 88 222 4938 0. SIMON DITCHFIELD (2004) The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 55, Issue 03, July 2004 pp 598-599 http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022046904680808. ...
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Before returning home to his royal master, the ambassador of Poland went to say farewell to the reigning Pope, Pius V. They met in St Peter’s Square, where the ambassador asked for a relic to take back with him to Poland. In reply, the... more
Before returning home to his royal master, the ambassador of Poland went to say farewell to the reigning Pope, Pius V. They met in St Peter’s Square, where the ambassador asked for a relic to take back with him to Poland. In reply, the pontiff bent down and took earth from the square with both his hands and placed it in a handkerchief, before handing it to the understandably bemused Pole with the reassurance that this was no ordinary earth but that mixed with the blood of Christian martyrs (nobis notum omnino erat, Vaticanum pulverem Martyrum sanguine plenum esse). The earth then proceeded to bleed, staining the handkerchief to the wonder and amazement of all present.
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Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History 101 (2010): 186-208
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284 c. 1840, Jan Peters on controversies over church pews, Dietrich Muhlberg on the leisure time of the working class around 1900, and Sigrid Jacobeit on clothing in Nazi Germany, are all first-rate. Whether they might have contributed to... more
284 c. 1840, Jan Peters on controversies over church pews, Dietrich Muhlberg on the leisure time of the working class around 1900, and Sigrid Jacobeit on clothing in Nazi Germany, are all first-rate. Whether they might have contributed to a reorientation of East German ...
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... The Jesuits and the Thirty Years' War: Kings, Courts and Confessors. Autores: Simon Ditchfield; Localización: Sixteenth century journal: the journal of Early Modern Studies, ISSN 0361-0160, Nº. 2, 2005 , págs. 509-511.... more
... The Jesuits and the Thirty Years' War: Kings, Courts and Confessors. Autores: Simon Ditchfield; Localización: Sixteenth century journal: the journal of Early Modern Studies, ISSN 0361-0160, Nº. 2, 2005 , págs. 509-511. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
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The study of confraternities and sodalities is a deeply furrowed field in European history. With foundational studies by Louis Châtellier and Christopher Black, and more specialized studies of Nicholas Terpstra, Brian Pullan, Richard... more
The study of confraternities and sodalities is a deeply furrowed field in European history. With foundational studies by Louis Châtellier and Christopher Black, and more specialized studies of Nicholas Terpstra, Brian Pullan, Richard Trexler, Edward Muir, and Ronald Weissman, ...
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... Diocesi di Trento, 15131565, ed. Cristina Belloni, and Cecilia Nubola. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006; pp. 1,037. Eur 65). This is the first of a projected two-volume edition of petitions sent to Rome by (mostly but not exclusively)... more
... Diocesi di Trento, 15131565, ed. Cristina Belloni, and Cecilia Nubola. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006; pp. 1,037. Eur 65). This is the first of a projected two-volume edition of petitions sent to Rome by (mostly but not exclusively) clerics from within the diocese of Trent between 1513 ...
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English translation as: The Invention of the Historic Monument, Cambridge, 2001) have taken as their starting-point the humanists of the Renaissance. The book under review pushes back yet further into the middle ages, with even a nod to... more
English translation as: The Invention of the Historic Monument, Cambridge, 2001) have taken as their starting-point the humanists of the Renaissance. The book under review pushes back yet further into the middle ages, with even a nod to the classical Greeks and ...
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... The Jesuits and the Thirty Years' War: Kings, Courts and Confessors. Autores: Simon Ditchfield; Localización: Sixteenth century journal: the journal of Early Modern Studies, ISSN 0361-0160, Nº. 2, 2005 , págs. 509-511.... more
... The Jesuits and the Thirty Years' War: Kings, Courts and Confessors. Autores: Simon Ditchfield; Localización: Sixteenth century journal: the journal of Early Modern Studies, ISSN 0361-0160, Nº. 2, 2005 , págs. 509-511. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
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Sterben und Unsterblichkeit. Zur Kultur des Martyriums in der frühen Neuzeit. By Peter Burschel. (Ancien Régime Aufklärung und Revolution, 35.) Pp. xi+372 incl. 85 ills. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2004. €49.80. 3 486 56815 9 Jenseits-Sicherung. Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg und seine Grabdenkmäler. ...more
... For example, Dawn Marie Hayes discusses the ways in which the masculine authority of the Capetian kings was closely associated with the church of St Denis, which itself emphasised the relationship between holiness and masculinity... more
... For example, Dawn Marie Hayes discusses the ways in which the masculine authority of the Capetian kings was closely associated with the church of St Denis, which itself emphasised the relationship between holiness and masculinity through the incorporation of symbols of ...
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... For Freiberg, then, the Clementine transepts embody a conscious and coherent proclamation 'of the harmony between temporal and spiritual power in a Christian world and the Eucharist as the cornerstone of the... more
... For Freiberg, then, the Clementine transepts embody a conscious and coherent proclamation 'of the harmony between temporal and spiritual power in a Christian world and the Eucharist as the cornerstone of the faith' (p. 161). ... UNIVERSITY OF YORK SIMON DITCHFIELD ...
... Simon Ditchfield a1. a1 University of York. ... 22 (paper). 88 15 10904 8. Simon Ditchfield (2007) The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 58, Issue 04, October 2007 pp 765-767... more
... Simon Ditchfield a1. a1 University of York. ... 22 (paper). 88 15 10904 8. Simon Ditchfield (2007) The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 58, Issue 04, October 2007 pp 765-767 http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S002204690700173X. Simon Ditchfield (2007). ...
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From Muslim to Christian Granada. Inventing a city's past in early modern Spain. By Katie A. Harris. (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. 125th Ser. (2007), 1.) Pp. xxiii+255 incl. 14 ills. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. £33.50. 13 978 0...more
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Die Academia Basiliana. Griechische Philologie, Kirchengeschichte und Unionsbemühungen im Rom der Barberini. By Ingo Herklotz. (Römische Quartalschrift für Christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte, Supplementband, 60.) Rome–Freiburg–Vienna: Herder. 2008. Pp. 312. €78.00. 978 3 451 27140 3more
Antiquarianismus, Hagiographie und Historie im 17. Jahrhundert. Zum Werk der Bollandisten. Ein wissenschaftshistorischer Versuch. By Jan Marco Sawilla. (Studien und Dokumente zur deutschen Literatur und Kultur im europäischen Kontext. Frühe Neuzeit, 131.) Pp. ix+911. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2009. €19...more
This is the outline programme of a one-day conference being held in the Institute of Historical Research, University of London on the theme of 'Translating Christianity'. For further details please contact the conference secretary Michael... more
This is the outline programme of a one-day conference being held in the Institute of Historical Research, University of London on the theme of 'Translating Christianity'. For further details please contact the conference secretary Michael Walsh on mjwalsh@heythrop.ac.uk
Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of the Council, in Europe and... more
Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of the Council, in Europe and beyond. Their conclusions are to be found in these three impressive volumes. Bridging together different generations of scholarship, the authors reassess in the first volume Tridentine views on the Bible, theology and liturgy, as well as their reception by Protestants, deconstructing myths surviving in scholarship and society alike. They also deal with the mechanisms 'Rome' developed to hold a grip on the Council's implementation. The second volume analyzes the changes in local ecclesiastical life, initiated by bishops, orders and congregations, and the political strife and confessionalisation accompanying this reform process. The third and final volume examines the afterlife of Trent in arts and music, as well as in the global impact of Trent through missions.
Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean History, Hagiography, Early Modern History, Habsburg Studies, Early Modern (Japanese History), and 21 moreEarly Modern Italy, Printing History, Early Modern France, Moravian (Church History), Early Modern Catholicism, Spanish Colonial Peru, Liturgical History, History of the Spanish-Habsburg Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire (History), Biblical Exegesis, Conciliarism, Early Modern Japan, Council of Trent, Philipp Melanchthon, Medieval Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Catholic Liturgy, Religious Orders, History of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, Early Modern English Catholicism, History of the Church Councils, and Early Modern Bishops
MAISON FRANÇAISE D’OXFORD BOOK LAUNCH AT CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, RAINOLDS ROOM (MERTON ST, OXFORD OX1 4JF) TUESDAY 25TH APRIL 2017 2.00 PM – 6.00 PM ECCLESIOLOGY AND POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST Réduire le schisme ? Ecclésiologies... more
MAISON FRANÇAISE D’OXFORD
BOOK LAUNCH AT CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, RAINOLDS ROOM
(MERTON ST, OXFORD OX1 4JF)
TUESDAY 25TH APRIL 2017
2.00 PM – 6.00 PM
ECCLESIOLOGY AND POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Réduire le schisme ? Ecclésiologies et politiques de l’Union entre Orient et Occident (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècles), éd. Marie-Hélène Blanchet et Frédéric Gabriel, Paris, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2013 (Monographies, 39).
L’Union à l’épreuve du formulaire : Professions de foi entre églises d’Orient et d’Occident (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle), éd. Marie-Hélène Blanchet et Frédéric Gabriel, Paris, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2016 (Monographies, 51).
BOOK LAUNCH AT CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, RAINOLDS ROOM
(MERTON ST, OXFORD OX1 4JF)
TUESDAY 25TH APRIL 2017
2.00 PM – 6.00 PM
ECCLESIOLOGY AND POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Réduire le schisme ? Ecclésiologies et politiques de l’Union entre Orient et Occident (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècles), éd. Marie-Hélène Blanchet et Frédéric Gabriel, Paris, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2013 (Monographies, 39).
L’Union à l’épreuve du formulaire : Professions de foi entre églises d’Orient et d’Occident (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle), éd. Marie-Hélène Blanchet et Frédéric Gabriel, Paris, Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2016 (Monographies, 51).
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Very excited to announce that "A Renaissance Reclaimed" is now available electronically via "British Academy Scholarship Online". Your institution might already have a subscription:... more
Very excited to announce that "A Renaissance Reclaimed" is now available electronically via "British Academy Scholarship Online". Your institution might already have a subscription: https://academic.oup.com/british-academy-scholarship-online/book/44094
Research Interests: History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Art History, and 13 moreRenaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Historiography, Renaissance, Italian Humanism, History of Scholarship, History of Political Thought, Early Modern Italy, Renaissance literature, Italian Renaissance literature, History of History, Italian Renaissance, and Jacob Burckhardt
This volume, edited Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, focuses on Rome from 1492 to 1692, an era of striking renewal: religious, demographic, economic, artistic, intellectual, and urban. Rome’s most distinctive... more
This volume, edited Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, focuses on Rome from 1492 to 1692, an era of striking renewal: religious, demographic, economic, artistic, intellectual, and urban. Rome’s most distinctive aspects—including its twin governments (civic and papal), unique role as the seat of global Catholicism, disproportionately male population, and status as artistic capital of Europe—are examined from numerous perspectives. This book of 30 chapters, intended for scholars and students across the academy, fills a noteworthy gap in the literature. It is the only multidisciplinary study of 16th- and 17th-century Rome that synthesizes and critiques past and recent scholarship while offering innovative analyses of a wide range of topics and identifying new avenues for research.