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Department

  • History

    • School

  • School of Arts and Sciences

    • Expertise

  • Renaissance
  • Reformation
  • Catholic Reformation

    • Nelson H. Minnich's work has dealt broadly with Christian humanism, the Catholic and Protestant Reformations, and the papacy and general councils of the early modern period, especially the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17). He is editing the Brill Renaissance Papacy, 1400–1600, The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent, and co-editing The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology, and will write a chapter in each. He is editor of the Catholic Historical Review and member of the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences.

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    Selected Publications

    • Martin Luther and the Shaping of the Catholic Tradition

      Martin Luther and the Shaping of the Catholic Tradition

      Martin Luther and the Shaping of the Catholic Tradition: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Washington, D.C. May 30 to June 1, 2017, ed. Nelson Minnich and Michael Root (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2021)

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    • Alla ricerca di soluzioni nuova luce sul Concilio Lateranense V

      Alla ricerca di soluzioni nuova luce sul Concilio Lateranense V

      Nelson H. Minnich, ed., Alla ricerca di soluzioni nuova luce sul Concilio Lateranense V. Studi per i 500 anni del Concilio (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2019)

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    • The Decrees of the Fifth Lateran Council

      The Decrees of the Fifth Lateran Council

      Nelson H. Minnich, The Decrees of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17): Their Legitimacy, Origins, Contents, and Implementation (Routledge, 2016)

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    • Journeys in Church History

      Journeys in Church History

      Nelson H. Minnich, ed., Journeys in Church History: Essays from the Catholic Historical Review (Catholic University of America Press, 2015)

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    • Councils of the Catholic Reformation

      Councils of the Catholic Reformation

      Nelson H. Minnich, Councils of the Catholic Reformation: Pisa I (1409) to Trent (1545-63) (Ashgate/Variorum, 2008)

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    • Controversies: Responsio ad epistolam paraeneticam Alberti Pii

      Controversies: Responsio ad epistolam paraeneticam Alberti Pii

      Controversies: Responsio ad epistolam paraeneticam Alberti Pii, Apologia adversus rhapsodias Alberti Pii, Brevissima scholia, ed. Nelson H. Minnich and Daniel Sheerin, Collected Works of Erasmus vol. 84 (University of Toronto Press, 2005)

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    • Encyclopedia of the Renaissance

      Encyclopedia of the Renaissance

      Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, general editor Paul F. Grendler, associate editor Nelson H. Minnich, 6 vols. (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999)

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    • The Catholic Reformation

      The Catholic Reformation

      Nelson H. Minnich, The Catholic Reformation: Council, Churchmen, Controversies (Variorum, 1993)

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    • Studies in Catholic History

      Studies in Catholic History

      Nelson H. Minnich, Robert B. Eno, S.S., and Robert Trisco, ed., Studies in Catholic History: In Honor of John Tracy Ellis (Michael Glazier, 1985)

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