Synods of the Churches of and after the Reformation

• Western Church : history & papacy
• Faith and dogmatic issues
• Reformation & Counter-Reformation
• Religious history (c. 1501-1800)

“This highly useful volume of carefully edited source material is compelling on several levels. Most immediately, the documents themselves, while largely known to scholars, have never been so conveniently available in one place. In many cases, the editorial work also improves on previously existing editions of the same material. In addition, several of the documents have not been readily available at all, and their newly edited inclusion will be welcome to a broad range of historians of early modern Christianity and Christian doctrine. Finally, the juxtaposition of these texts in one volume, and, more fundamentally, in Corpus Christianorum’s distinguished series of critical editions of the decrees of ecumenical and general councils, makes a contribution of a different kind. It allows these documents to be seen as examples of a genre, and at the same time expands previous boundaries of that genre by raising deeper questions on the nature of councils and what makes them “general” or “ecumenical.” (...)

(...) what has been said about the council is at least as interesting as anything said at the council. Perhaps that is a fitting motto for the volume as a whole, which combines meticulously prepared editions of important primary sources with a stimulating and provocative editorial vision. It will be of great interest to a wide range of scholars and belongs in every theological library.”

(Kenneth G. Appold, in The Catholic Historical Review, 111.1, 2025, p. 194, 196)

Alberto Melloni is Full Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Secretary and Director of the Foundation for Religious Studies (Fscire) and Chair holder of the UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralism and Peace at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He was also the Chair for the 2021 Italian Presidency of the IF20 by the G20 Interfaith Forum. Since 2020, he has been one of the European Commission’s Chief Scientific Advisors.

Gianmarco Braghi, PhD (Trinity College Dublin), is Assistant Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Palermo and a member of the Foundation for Religious Studies (Fscire), where he acts as Deputy Coordinator of the “Giuseppe Alberigo” European School for Advanced Religious Studies. He is a member of the Board of the Reformation Research Consortium (REFORC) and of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Stitching Calvin’s Reforming Correspondence.