Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance

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Offers a sharp critique, or rather a series of critiques, of the conventional historiography of early modern Spanish religion [and] a series of valuable case studies of Catholic thought and practice . . . The book is beautifully written, and adds drama, emotion, and even humor to what might otherwise seem arcane ecclesiastical or scholarly disputes.
-Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies A penetrating and convincing work of revisionist history. Few scholarly books from the start clearly mark a watershed in the interpretation of history. This one magisterially does.
-L. R. N. Ashley, Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance With clear writing and convincing scholarship, Homza has successfully challenged a long-standing paradigm in Spanish historical studies . . . Homza has rescued Spanish intellectual history from its paralyzingly rigid past . . . [and] discovered a dynamic intellectual world where theologians skillfully joined old authorities and new techniques as they groped for answers.
-Allyson M. Poska, Journal of Modern History Meticulous and engaging scholarship . . . The challenges [Homza] poses to questions of periodization and categorization should be a model for future studies of the religious, cultural, and intellectual currents of sixteenth-century Europe.
-Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Catholic Historical Review