#counter reformation

[bonefool]

Another of the Reformation Era Catacomb Saints

Many might assume this is a recently excavated find from an Aztec temple. In reality it is an exhumed corpse from a 3rd century Roman grave dug up, jeweled, and sent to a church in late 1500's Germany. This area had been deeply affected by the struggles between reformation and catholic groups. The churches also showed the signs, where iconoclasm had destroyed the art and relics that gave locals a sense of pride and safety.

[tudorblogger]

‘Mary I: Queen of Sorrows’ by Alison Weir

Thanks to Headline Review for sending me a copy of this to review. I really enjoyed this one, better than the previous one in the series on Henry VIII. Mary’s story is less well-known which is perhaps why I enjoyed it more. Henry’s story has been raked over so many times now and trying to fit his whole life and all of the intricacies of the changing foreign, domestic, and religious policy into a…

[i12go4god]

[ryanroach008]

Madonna di Loreto by Caravaggio (ca. 1604-06)

[ahb-writes]

Book Review: ‘Heroes and Heretics: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World’

Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World by Thomas Cahill My rating: 3 of 5 stars History is never quite the sum of its parts, as it is the summation of the parts that matter to those whose interests have endured. For the renaissance period of what now constitutes Europe, much effort is required to adequately document the combinations and conflicts that gave rise to new ideas, perceptions, arguments, and cultural idiosyncrasies. Cahill's HERETICS AND HERESY is modestly organized and selectively detailed. No single tome can articulate the multitude of splintering experiences of Europe's renaissance period, whether in Italy, Germany, Spain, or the northerly regions, and yet the author makes an earnest attempt. The book's incompleteness does not become readily apparent for some time, however obvious it may seem from a distance. The author provides considerable depth and context when discussing the chronology and evolution of artistic genius among painters and sculptors in Italy, how they were intertwined with regional political factions, and how their skill earned the favor of, and later fell out of favor with, religious zealots of the time. And yet, the author can only dedicate so many words and so many color plates to the cleverness of peculiar men of status. Cahill's approach to art history and the environments that birthed many a movement or individual are an informative but patchwork ordeal. Sometimes by necessity and other times due to the overwhelming influence of a particular individual, Cahill's narrative devotes much of its energy toward understanding the writers, sculptors, painters, and rhetoricians who were their era's most dominant personalities. Helpful for readers eager to know that Michelangelo was a slovenly fellow. Not so helpful for an actual diagnosis of the social, cultural, and political impacts of Michelangelo's work. Helpful for those eager to know of the reasoning behind Luther's supposed "pathologically induced constipation." Not so helpful for those interested in the less predictable, less gendered, less religious exploits that branched off Luther's efforts in surprising ways. One might argue the author spends too much time discussing and fawning over the art (or the artists) rather than communicating in full the shifting political schema behind each piece of art (or each artist). HERETICS AND HERESY provides exquisite detail in areas such as the counter-reformation, the relationship between an indulgent royalty and the influence of the Catholic church, and other presumptions of authority that emanated from those whose power was in constant flux. These snapshot versions of European history are helpful but are also necessarily incomplete. Nearly all of the figures profiled are male. And so few of those profiled fall beyond the realm of standard presumptions of the formal Italian Renaissance. The splintering of Protestantism and the birth of Anglicanism, for example, is an area where so much information is glossed, one surmises it may well never have been mentioned at all. The book houses a great deal and leaves out just as much. The author's endnotes acknowledge the gaps in research yet do not read at all as being invested in more sharply tuning the research that exists. Sometimes, HERETICS AND HERESY feels needlessly indulgent; Cahill's sincere interest grows superfluous, often deferring to a first-person account (of familiarity) of a religious or cultural figure. However, for readers interested in a literary account of what is essentially a second-year post-secondary course on the renaissance, in capsule form, this book isn't a bad place to start.

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[canisalbus]

do u have a specific year in mind or is it just general 16th century vibes

Very late 16th century. I'm reluctant to assign them specific years because I prefer to have just a little bit of wiggle room, I'd go crazy if I had to map out their timeline to follow real life historical details to a T (it's not impossible to do that by any means, I'm just not strong enough weh). For example, I tend to use a lot of early to mid 1500's references for Vasco's wardrobe, by the end of the century fashion had already started to take somewhat darker and more rigid direction and I like to keep Vasco's attires colorful, voluminous and eyecatching. Mostly to highlight their visual contrast to Machete's angular and constricted silhouettes and predominantly black palette.

I keep calling them late Renaissance dogs but in truth they're closer to early Baroque. At the moment I'd say they were probably born in the 1570's, Vasco is a couple years older than Machete but in the grand picture they're practically the same age. In the bad ending Machete dies in his early/mid 40's, that would mean a little after the turn of the century. Vasco lives to his 70's so he'd still be around in... 1640, right? But again, I don't like giving them fixed dates, I'm just thinking out loud. Might go back and retcon this in the future if I change my mind in a way or another.

[royalthorned]

Counter reformation priest Evan and heretic, perverse Barty AU

Barty is a nepo baby Italian with family connections to the Blacks (imagine sforza-esque power) on trial for sodomy (he was at a hippy-art orgy, he poses for cheap scum painters). So the church brings in their most "humane" priest to investigate and question him. Father Rosier.

And Evan is this village freak, born a twin with blank eyes and lopsided shoulders, who snuck into the forrest with Pandora and came back splattered in blood. And he is unnervingly pious, he gives every stray who comes to his monastery medical treatment and he does so with a blank face. He always volunteers to handle the dead bodies.

And Barty is tied up in some catholic rural church and Evan walks in, fully decked out in the decadence of counter reformation catholic uniforms. White billowing robes that fall over his hands because he's undernourished and frail. And Evan has deep set eye bags, slanted hips, a malnourished heart shape face with creamy skin and bright pink lips and Barty he loses it. He's flirting and giggling, he's biting his lip and making ridiculously suggestive faces (imagine carravagio's early paintings) He's slipping his linen shirt off his shoulders. And Evan is just so unmoved by the whole scene outwardly.

The torture method that Evan is ecstatic to try is sticking a wooden pole up someone's .... So Evan sets it up, all rigid and un-emotive. Barty sucks on it and looks up at Evan with the biggest, most pitiful sex eyes, this obviously leads to perverted, power imbalanced sex.

Cut to Barty being a free innocent man and living with Evan in his hometown of rural France in some undeveloped catholic parish where all the locals see Evan, the deformed, amoral, religious twin and a deranged, perverted Italian frolicking around and dissecting animals.

And the live happily ever after the end :)

this is a copy paste of my deranged rambling to Lune, thank you for listening to me bb <3 @sommerregenjuniluft

[wallacepolsom]

Wallace Polsom, Reformation and Counter-Reformation (2023), paper collage, 22 x 23.3 cm.

[rahabs]

The Tudors ran so Wulf Hall could shuffle awkwardly around reiterating the same tired old Tudor stereotypes while claiming to be something new.

[quizshow1994]

First Reformed (2017)

The Card Counter (2021)

Master Gardener (2023)

Directed by Paul Schrader

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

I’m sorry but the best Jon Snow AUs are those where he is some sort of civil servant. I always see people headcannon him as ROTC/soldier or cop but I think they kind of miss the mark. GRRM has steadily been moving away from the traditional warrior archetype with Jon and more into the counts-pebbles ruler type. So the cannon compliant AUs are the ones where he ends up as some sort of government official. Maybe he could be a city hall manager or an ombudsman. He could be a state representative or maybe even a senator. Let me remind people that he’s the only elected leader in the series. AU!Jon Snow would totally be the extremely competent but also extremely depressed congressional representative from like, idk, Alaska.

[racefortheironthrone]

Would even the most liberal of liberal Catholics have opposed Henry VIII making himself head of the church? Conservative or liberal, seems kind of baseline for anybody of that era who thought of themselves as Catholics?

Yes, although it very much came down to a question of wording and framing. As I've noted, one could be a Catholic and also a Gallician or Conciliarist; plenty of perfectly pious Catholic monarchs had argued that their authority was equal to or superior to that of the Pope, at least when it came to matters of governance and law rather than matters of doctrine or theology.

[whencyclopedia]

Loyola's Spiritual Exercises

The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola (1548) is a manual of disciplines formulated by Ignatius Loyola (l. 1491-1556) to prepare one spiritually for Christian service. They were initially developed between 1522-1524 by Loyola for himself and then shared with others, specifically his friends who formed the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1534. It was first published in 1548.

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[falinscloaca]

pisses me off so much much that i’m not immune to people arguing about steven universe

[samaspic31]

An entire art history class about st Sebastian without uttering the world homosexuality once. Kill yourself. It’s not just any eroticism the artist is being gay it’s relevant you asshole