
Concilia
Synods of the Churches of and after the Reformation
The Dawn of the Reformation (16th-17th Centuries)
Alberto Melloni, Gianmarco Braghi (eds)
- Pages:2 vols, xxiv + 1092 p.
- Size:155 x 245 mm
- Illustrations:1 b/w, 1 tables b/w.
- Language(s):Latin, English
- Publication Year:2024
- € 700,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-54506-6
- Hardback
- Available
“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.
This two-volume set includes the critical editions – in some cases the very first critical editions – of a selection of synods of the Churches of and after the Reformation from 1526 to 1616. This collection of synodal decrees represents different confessional families and covers a wide linguistic and geographical spectrum.
General Introduction (Alberto Melloni)
Concilium Hombergense (1526) (ed. Johannes Schilling)
Concilium Iuliomagense (1527) (ed. Christian Scheidegger)
Disputatio et Decem Theses Bernenses (1528) (ed. Pierrick Hildebrand)
Concilium Augustanum (1530) (ed. Kirsi I. Stjerna)
Concilium Bernense (1532) (ed. Pierrick Hildebrand)
Concilium Campi Foranei (iuxta Hengroniam) (1532) (ed. Gianmarco Braghi)
Synodus Tigurina (1532) (ed. Emidio Campi)
Concilium Argentoratense (1533/1534) (ed. Gianmarco Braghi & Graeme Murdock)
Concilium Genevense (1541) (ed. Gianmarco Braghi & Graeme Murdock)
Concilia Hungarica et Transsylvanica (1545, 1567, 1570) (ed. Zoltán Csepregi)
Concilium Venetianum-Ferrariense (1550) (ed. Davide Dainese)
Concilia Lutetianum et Rupellense (1559/1571) (ed. Irene Dingel)
Concilium Londinense (1563/1571) (ed. Torrance Kirby)
Concilium Antverpianum (1564) (ed. Gianmarco Braghi & Graeme Murdock)
Conventus Vesaliensis et Synodus Embdana (1568–1571) (ed. Henning P. Jürgens)
Concilium Sandomiriense (1570) (ed. Maciej Ptaszyński)
Concilium Saxonicum (1577) (ed. Irene Dingel & Johannes Hund)
Concilium Upsaliense (1593) (ed. Oloph Bexell)
Articuli Lambethani (1595) (ed. Torrance Kirby)
Concilium Tuiscoburgense (1610) (ed. Andreas Mühling)
Concilium Hibernicum (1614/1615) (ed. Torrance Kirby)
Concilium Aberdoniense Ecclesiae Scoticanae (1616) (ed. Ian Hazlett)