Summary
Jean Delumeau: Catholicism between Luther and Voltaire
The Roman Church, at the end of the 16th and in the 17th century, experienced a profound change that was the result of long-term searches, great holiness and painful wanderings in the dark. That is why today it is no longer considered that the history of that restoration begins with the Council of Trent. It is true that the essence of the two reformations that considered themselves great opponents and whose similarities we are only now seeing lay in their common past - a past that was undeniably full of various troubles and abuses, but also an effort that was supposed to lead to a revival of piety, with the aim of making the faith of the elite more personal and the faith of the masses more alive.
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