CAV 129
Description: Maria Teresa FATTORI, Provincial councils, Rome and political powers in policentrica catholicism, 1517-1817, Città del Vaticano 2025, pp. XXII, 562
ISBN 978-88-98638-30-7
€ 38,00
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1. The Papacy in Modern Ages
2. The Council of Trent as a mediator of «glocalisation»: the Council as Language
3. Why provincial Councils?
4. The provincial Council’s context, the Roman Curia, and regulatory framework
5. Three Centuries of Provincial Councils
Abbreviations
I. Districts, Metropolitanates and Ecclesiastical Territories: geo-local aspects of ecclesiastical territorial evolution
1. Geography and Chronology
1.1 The Italian Peninsula
1.2 The Iberian Peninsula
1.3 The State of France
1.4 The Low Countries
1.5 The Habsburg Empire
1.6 Europe between Catholic tradition, missionary activity and Eastern rites: Ireland, Poland and Russia
1.7 The Missionary World
1.8 The Roman Perspective
2. The Relationships between Episcopacy and Territory: Evolutions in Districts and Theology
2.1 Ecclesiastical Territory in the Council of Trent’s Decrees
2.2 The Alternatives
3. Conclusion
II. The Curia and Provincial Councils. Activity of the Congregations of the Council and Bureaucratic Procedure
1. The Tridentine Decree de Recipiendis et Observandis Decretis Concilii and the Origins of the Congregation of the Council
1.1 The background of the foundation of the Congregation of the Council: Events
1.2 The background of the foundation of the Congregation of the Council: Interpretation
1.3 The Congregation of the Council’s decisio authentica
1.4 The Council of Trent led to adding curial bodies
1.5 The Congregation of the Council’s Archives
1.6 The juridical value reserved for the Congregations’ Decisions from a historical perspective
1.7 Consequences for the Corpus iuris canonici
2. The Bureaucratic Procedures: confirmatio, recognitio and approbatio of Provincial Councils
2.1 Synodal Structures and ordo concilii
2.2 The Recognition, between the act of correction and enactment/promulgation
2.3 Legal value/force of the Congregation’s recognition
2.4 The Seasons of Revisions and Recognitions in Provincial Councils
3. Doubts, Decisions and Declarations on the Second Canon, XXIV session, de reformatione
3.1 Rights and Duties in Convening Provincial Councils
3.2. Presidency, Direction and Dissolution of Provincial Councils
3.3 Memberships
3.4 Seats and rights to precedence
3.5 Exempt Bishops
3.6 Frequency
3.7 Purposes and Matters of Discussion of Provincial Councils
3.8 Conflicts
4. Conclusions
III. Provincial Councils Worldwide between 1517 and 1817
1. Periodization and the Seasons of Provincial Councils
1.1 First phase, from 1517 to 1544
1.2 Second phase, from 1545 to 1563
1.3 Third phase, from 1564 to 1574
1.4 Forth phase, from 1575 to 1621
1.5 Fifth phase, from 1622 to 1724
1.6 Sixth phase, from 1725 to 1817
2. The Models of Councils
2.1 The Members and Organization of Councils
2.2 The Frequency of Councils
2.3 The Content of the Final Decisions
3. Provincial Councils by Geography, Area, and Political Power
3.1 The Papal State and Papal fiefs
3.2 The Grand Dukedom of Tuscany
3.3 The Republic of Genoa and the Republic of Venice
3.4 The Kingdom of Spain (Iberian Peninsula)
3.5 The Spanish Dukedom of Milan
3.6 The Spanish Viceroyalty of Naples and the Kingdom of Sardinia
3.7 The Spanish Overseas Empire of America and Asia
3.8 The Low Countries and the Spanish fief
3.9 The Kingdom of Portugal in the Iberian Peninsula
3.10 The Portuguese Overseas Empire
3.11 The Kingdom of France and the French Empire
3.12 The Habsburg Empire
3.13 The Kingdom of England
3.14 The Kingdom of Ireland
3.15 The Kingdom of Scotland
3.16 The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
4. Provinces without Councils: some Cases
Appendix
IV. Towards a New Synodal Season
1. Missionary activity, the New Churches, and their normative production
2. A new paradigm: from the Acta Ecclesiae Mediolanensis of Carlo Borromeo to the De Synodo dioecesana of Prospero Lambertini
V. Appendix: Analytical Description of the Sources
Inedited Sources
Edited Sources
VI. Complete list of quoted publications
Indices
Index of sources
Index of the names