Counter-Reformation

Picturing Silence Emblem, Language, Counter-Reformation Materiality. 

The controversy was not really about science. The use of law and coercion to defend a theory was not so much an indication that the authorities cared deeply about the nature of the elements as a reflection of their wish to preserve the status quo. Like Galileo s trial before the Inquisition, this was not an argument about truth but a struggle for power, a sign of the religious dogmatism of the Counter-Reformation. 

A11 interpretation encouraged by the researcli of J. Delumeau, Catholicism between Luther and Voltaire A New View of the Counter-Reformation (London, 1977), and ]. Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400 -1700 (Oxford, 1985). 

It was first published in Cologne, 1577. The following quotations come from the text in the Opera (Paris, 1616). On Maximilian s efforts to achieve a compromise see most recently, H. Louthan, The Quest for Compromise Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (Cambridge, 1997). 

Delumeau, J. Catholicism Between Luther and Voltaire A New View of the Counter-Reformation. London, 1977. 

Eamon, William. "Cannibalism and Contagion Framing Syphilis in Counter-Reformation Italy." Early Science and Medicine 1 (February 1998] 1-31. 

Karant-Nunn, Susan C. "The Women of the Saxon Silver Mines." In Women in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe, edited by Sherrin Marshall, 29-46. Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1989. 

Robert E. Schofield, The Counter-Reformation in Eighteenth-Century Science—Last Phase, in Perspectives in the History of Science and Technology, ed. D. Roller (Oklahoma University Press, 1971). 

Maxwell, Julie. Counter-Reformation Versiorrs of Saxo A New Sorrrce for... 

Arguments for the special disposition of women and fools to receive spiritual impressionswerenotnewofcourse,buttheconventional distinction between proud Reason and holy humility took on a freshly oppositional character in the polemics of anti-popery and Counter-Reformation, and in the post-revolutionary outpouring of anti-enthusiasm and its own counterpart, radical spiritualism. Such oppositions can be found developed in Catholic defences of medieval and Counter-Reformation female mystics after the Restoration, and in Quaker justifications of women s speaking. However, its more powerfiil expression is to be found in the censorious writings of the anti-enthusiasts, for whom simple women were rather more likely to be led captive (1 Timothy 3.6) by their own delusions and melancholy than to be anointed with extraordinary revelations. In a hostile... 

Stephen B. Burbank, The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 in Historical Context A Preliminary View, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1439 (2008) Elizabeth J. Cabraser, The Class Action Counter Reformation, 57 Stan. L. Rev. 1475, 1483-84 (2005) Myriam Gilles, Opting Out of Liability The Forthcoming, Near-Total Demise of the Modem Class Action, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 373, 379 (2005). 

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