The Conquest of the Soul: Confession, Discipline, and Public Order in Counter-Reformation Milan
W. de Boer
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The Conquest of the Soul: Confession, Discipline, and Public Order in Counter-Reformation Milan

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Carlo and Federico Borromeo achieved fame by turning Milan into the foremost laboratory of the Italian Counter-Reformation. This monograph, the first on the subject to appear in English, interprets their program of penitential discipline as a quest to reshape Lombard society by reaching into the souls of its inhabitants. This integration of the public and private spheres had vast implications - the transformation of the clergy into a professional body, a bureaucratic-juridical turn in sacramental practice, interventions in the ritual order (notably the introduction of the confessional), and ne...