HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

From the Renaissance to the
French Revolution



CHAPTER I

CAUSES OF THE REFORMATION


(a) The Renaissance.

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Protestantism (Tr.)/, 1908 (chap. i.-iii.). Guirard, /L'Eglise et
les Origines de la Renaissance/, 1902. Burckhardt, /Die Cultur der
Renaissance in Italien/, 11 auf., 1913 (Eng. Trans. by Middlemore,
1878). A Baumgartner, S.J., /Geschichte der Weltiteratur/, vol.
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Renaissance/, 1902). Stone, /The Reformation and Renaissance/,
1904. Janssen, /Geschichte des deutschen Volkes/, 1887 (Eng.
Trans. by Mitchell and Christie, London, 1896 sqq.). Pastor,
/Geschichte der Papste im Zeitalter der Renaissance/, Freiburg,
1886 sqq. (Eng. Trans. by Antrobus, London, 1891 sqq.). Muntz, /La
Renaissance en Italie et en France a l'epoque de Charles VIII./,
1885. Gasquet, /The Eve of the Reformation/. Mourret, /La
Renaissance et la Reforme/, 1912.

The great intellectual revival, that followed upon the successful