Regulating the People: The Catholic Reformation in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Biographical note
Allyson M. Poska, Ph.D. (1992) in History, University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of History at Mary Washington College.
Readership
This work will be interesting to historians of Spain, early modern Europe, colonial Latin America, the Reformation, social historians and historians of religion.
Reviews
'Allyson Posks...makes an excellent addition to a growing body of scholarship on the complex interplay between Church efforts at universal reform in the early modern period and the prerogatives of local communities in defense of their own distinct religious and cultural traditions...Poska's study should be read by all who are interested in the interplay between popular and "official"religious pracitce in early modern Europe.'
Jennifer D. Selwyn, Sixteenth Century Journal, 1999.
'This well-researched case study offers interesting material for a comparative study, not only between Galicia and Castile but between peripheral and central regions in the world of early modern Catholicism.'
R.Po-Chia Hsia, American Historical Review, 2000.
Jennifer D. Selwyn, Sixteenth Century Journal, 1999.
'This well-researched case study offers interesting material for a comparative study, not only between Galicia and Castile but between peripheral and central regions in the world of early modern Catholicism.'
R.Po-Chia Hsia, American Historical Review, 2000.
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