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Councils of the Catholic Reformation: Pisa I (1409) to Trent (1545-63). By Nelson H. Minnich. [Variorum Collected Studies Series, 890.] (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co. 2008. Pp. xii, 348. $124.95. ISBN 978-0-75465951-8.)
Nelson H. Minnich is the historians' historian. His studies of the latemedieval and early-modern councils are models of exhaustive research in the sources, careful reporting of his finds, and judicious conclusions. The result has often been the demise of long-held judgments that were considered beyond question. Minnich's first specialty was Lateran V His numerous articles on the council have notably reshaped our image of it. Instead of a small council of almost exclusively Italian membership, it has emerged as on a par with other councils of the era, incomparably better attended than Trent in its first two periods and truly pan-European in make-up.
This volume, which consists of twelve articles, most of which have been published in the last eight years, ranges widely over the nine councils...