<jats:p>Studies of the ecclesiastical reform of the eleventh century have often highlighted conflict between reforming monks and simoniac clerics. This was especially true in the urban contexts of Milan and Florence, cities that played a leading role, at the time, in th...

<jats:p>The academic commemoration of Philip Melanchthon, humanist, reformer and ‘teacher of Germany’ (‘praeceptor Germaniae’), occurred for the first time on a large scale in 1760, the two-hundredth anniversary of his death. This article offers a first exploration of t...

<jats:p>The article sheds light on the significant fundraising and relief activities for Ireland during the Great Famine (1845–50) initiated in 1847 by the Italian philosopher and cleric Antonio Rosmini and his network in Savoy-Piedmont, Lombardy-Venetia and England. By...

<jats:p>This essay studies Robert Persons's understanding of the reforms of Mary <jats:sc>i</jats:sc> of England within the continental discursive context in which he worked. By describing his critiques of Marian reforms together with similar reformist discourses in Fra...

<jats:p>This article examines the unusual history and legal status of the Tor de’ Specchi community, founded by Francesca Romana (d. 1440) in Rome, in the face of shifting expectations for religious women in Counter-Reformation Catholicism. It is argued that Francesca R...

<jats:p>This study investigates the place of San Salvatore in the holy topography of Venetian Candia. By focusing on the largest convent in the Augustinian Province of the Holy Land, it contributes to a better understanding of a neglected subject in mendicant scholarshi...

<jats:p>Thomas of Edessa (d. <jats:italic>c.</jats:italic> 540), author of <jats:italic>Explanations of the Nativity</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>of Epiphany</jats:italic>, flourished as a teacher at the School of Nisibis in Sasanid Persia. By analysing his understand...

<jats:p>Between 1947 and 1965, 408 British children were sent to Australia under the auspices of the Church of England Advisory Council of Empire Settlement and its successor bodies. Situating this work in wider policy contexts, this article examines how the council inv...