A bishop's tale : Mathias Hovius among his flock in seventeenth-century Flanders
"This book takes us back to the world of a Netherlandish Catholic bishop and his flock during the Age of Reformation. It is drawn from a journal, one of many kept by Mathias Hovius from 1596 to 1620 while he was Archbishop of Mechelen (part of modern Belgium). The book focuses not only on the life of Mathias Hovius but also on key events and characters of his time; it portrays "lived religion," so that we see people from all sides getting involved in the constant negotiation of what it meant to be a good Catholic."
Biography
x, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
9780300083422, 9780300094053, 0300083424, 0300094051
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The Canon's new clothes
The third man
Isabella's dowry
Mathias' peace
Rumor mill
Our dear lady on the Sharp Hill
Pulling up tares
Three Pastors
The trouble with peace
A schoolboy from Diest
Table talk
Ladies of the garden
Sisters of the world
The sportsman's mass