The trial of a bishop for heresy against the backdrop of the reorganisation of powers in the Church in the second half of the sixteenth century. Caught between the affirmation of the inquisitorial ideology and the reinforcement of Rome's centralism, a generation of bishops faced a changing world.
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Elena Bonora
Elena Bonora teaches modern history at Parma University. She has published Conflicts of the Counter Reformation. Sanctity and obedience in the religious experience of the early Barnabites (Le Lettere 1998). For Laterza, Judging the bishops. The definition of power in the post-Tridentine Church (2007) and The Counter Reformation (2009).
