Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern MediterraneanRoutledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of KnowledgeSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/RMSVYPY6/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.SamKennerleyRome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterraneanhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/RMSVYPY6https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/RMSVYPY6https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/RMSVYPY6LondonRoutledge2022Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge<i>Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation</i> provides the first in-depth study of contacts between Rome and the Maronites during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This book begins by showing how the church unions agreed at the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-1445) led Catholics to endow an immense amount of trust in the orthodoxy of Christians from the east. Taking the Maronites of Mount Lebanon as its focus, it then analyses how agents in the peripheries of the Catholic world struggled to preserve this trust into the early sixteenth century, when everything changed. On one hand, this study finds that suspicion of Christians in Europe generated by the Reformation soon led Catholics to doubt the past and present fidelity of the Maronites and other Christian peoples of the Middle East and Africa. On the other, it highlights how the expansion of the Ottoman Empire caused many Maronites to seek closer integration into Catholic religious and military goals in the eastern Mediterranean. By drawing on previously unstudied sources to explore both Maronite as well as Roman perspectives, this book integrates eastern Christianity into the history of the Reformation, while re-evaluating the history of contact between Rome and the Christian east in the early modern period. It is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern Europe, as well as those interested in the Reformation, religious history, and the history of Catholic Orientalism. Kennerley, Sam. Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge. London: Routledge, 2022. Sam Kennerley, Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge (London: Routledge, 2022).LebanonMaronitesMuslim-Christian relationsOttoman empireRoman CatholicVII-XVIII CEWestern missionXV CEXVI CEidentityunia