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Revisiting sacred propaganda: the Holy Bishop in the seventeenth-century Jansenist quarrel
(Taylor & Francis, 2004)In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, prelates such as Borromeo of Milan and de Sales of Geneva, began to reinvigorate this hierarchical office, offering models of episcopal government, discipline and pastorate ... -
A Catholic model of martyrdom in the Post-Reformation era: the Bishop in Seventeenth-Century France
(Taylor & Francis, 2005)By the seventeenth century, episcopal martyrdom was an established reality and ideal throughout the Catholic church. Bishops could pay homage to the celebrated prelates of the early church who had gone bravely to their ... -
Suicide in Early Modern and Modern Europe
(Cambridge University Press, 2006-09)This is a review of recent English- and German-language publications on suicide, both as an act and a subject of discourse, in the early and late modern periods. It argues that, while publications on the theme have increased ... -
Vincent de Paul as mentor
(Vincentian Studies Institute of the United States, 2008)In September 1626, Vincent de Paul and three companions signed an act of association that described the common work that they had been performing over a period of several years and presented a promisE' from each man that ... -
Vincent de Paul: The making of a Catholic Dévot
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Irish entrants to the Congregation of the Mission, 1625-60
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Introduction to 'Politics and Religion in Early Bourbon France'
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Vincent de Paul: The principles and practices of government, 1625-60
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Venues for clerical formation in Catholic Reformation Paris: Vincent de Paul and the Tuesday Conference and Company
(Western Society for French History, 2010)In the eulogy he delivered at Vincent de Paul's memorial service in November 1660, the bishop of Puy, Henri Maupas du Tour, praised his subject for having "virtually changed the face of the Church by Conferences, by ... -
"Fascinating scalpel-wielders and fair dissectors": women's experience of Irish medical education, c. 1880s-1920s.
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Namur Citadel, 1695: A Case Study in Allied Siege Tactics
(SAGE Publications, 2011)Year after year Louis XIV's armies thrust through Brabant in the eastern part of the Spanish Netherlands, the biggest theatre of the Nine Years' War (1689-97). These thrusts followed the general line of the rivers Sambre ... -
Old languages in a new country: publishing and reading in the Celtic languages in nineteenth-century Australia
(2011)The history of the Irish language in nineteenth-century Australia, and of its use among Irish immigrants, is not very clear. On the one hand, Patrick O’Farrell has maintained that the Irish were overwhelmingly anglophone ... -
The English Pale: 'a failed entity'?
(Wordwell Ltd., 2011-03)It is hardly surprising that Irish historians have been reluctant to engage with negative later medieval English perceptions of Ireland (see sidebar below), other than to impugn their veracity. In regard to the English ... -
Family and power: Incest and Ireland, 1880-1950
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Slavery on the frontier: the report of a French missionary on mid-seventeenth-century Tunis
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This document is a report sent in 1654 by Jean Le Vacher, member of the Congregation of the Mission, vicar apostolic of the Holy See and acting French consul in Tunis, to the cardinals of the Congregation for the Propagation ...