Counterreformation

Pavel Valentinovich Krylov PhD in History, scientific researcher, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodskaya str., bld. 7, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197110)
pavel_kryloff@mail.ru

Крылов П.В. Фламандский эпизод борьбы папства против янсенизма в документе из архива СПбИИ РАН // Религия. Церковь. Общество. Вып. 14. СПб.: Скифия-Принт, 2025.С. 328–373.

doi: 10.24412/2308-0698-2025-14-324-336

Language: Russian

The documents published in the article, which are part of the correspondence of the Apostolic Nunciature in Spain, are dedicated to the Holy See’s struggle against Jansenism, a Catholic movement within the Counter-Reformation, and its followers in the Spanish Netherlands. The first document, authored by CarloFrancesco Airoldi, the Papal Interim Nuncio in Brussels, reveals the secret restoration of the epitaph on the grave of Cornelius Jansen, the founder of a doctrine that was considered heretical. The author of the letter is alarmed by the spread of heresy and asks for instructions on how to proceed. The authors of the second and third documents, Cardinals Paluzzo Altieri and Carlo Barberini, demand that the recipient take decisive action against the court of Madrid in order to destroy the memorial. The eleven-month interval between the first and the second documents may be a testament not only to the slowness of the Spanish bureaucracy during the decline of the Habsburg Empire in the Iberian Peninsula, but also to the deliberate delay in carrying out the orders of the Holy See.

Key words: Spanish Netherlands, Holy See, Counter-Reformation, Jansenism

URL: https://rcs-almanac.ru/krylov2025-en/

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Zinaida Andreevna Lurie, doctor of History, assistant lecturer, Faculty of foreign languages, St. Petersburg State University (Universitetskaia nab., 7/9, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 199034)
z.lurie@spbu.ru

Lure Z. A. The martyrdom of St. Stephan in Medieval and. Early Modern hagiography, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2013, vol. 2, pp. 185–206.

DOI: 10.24411/2308-0698-2013-00001

Language: Russian

Despite the rather late development of the cult of the first martyr at the end of the 3rd – 4th centuries, it occupied an unusually important role in Christian rhetoric as an imitator of Christ. The article analyzes the references to the first deacon of the apologists and the early fathers of the Church (Clementus, Irenaeus, Augustine, etc.). In the medieval period, the regional traditions of veneration, on the one hand, and, on the other, the widespread presence of his worship in temples as one of the first deacons can’t be led to the single tendency of perception of the image. One of the recurring motives was the opposition of Stephen to the Jewish antagonists. During the Reformation, this antagonism was transferred to the realities of confessional confrontation, but the interest in the martyr was not great and even the influence of the Catholic renewal had a very limited effect on the iconography of Stefan. In turn, for the late Protestantism of the 1560–1590s. it was Stefan who turned out to be an iconic figure. The author examines the reasons for the popularity of the plot, analyzing the conflicts inherent in the book “Acts”, and illustrates the perception of the plot in the Lutheran tradition on the example of the tragedy of Melchior Neukirch in 1592, which completed a series of dramatic adaptations. The writer raised a number of extremely relevant topics for his time: the problem of tyranny and punishment of tyrants “for audacity”, and, equally, developed the concept of an ideal world order, reflected also at the family level. No less significant theologian in the drama was the preaching of Christ.

Key words: Stephan, hagiography, Reformation, Counterreformation, confessionalisation, Melchior Neukirch, theater, drama

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