Celeste started following the work of Brian Druchniak, Northwestern University, History.
Celeste started following the work of Jimmy Pieterse, University of Pretoria, Humanities.
Celeste started following the work of Christopher J. Lane, University of Notre Dame, History.
Graduate Student, History
Thesis Title: The Tragedy of Tridentine Reform in Seventeenth-Century Padua
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Edward Muir
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About
I study early modern Italian history, with a focus on religious culture. I'm writing my dissertation on the process of Tridentine Reform in seventeenth-century Padua under San Gregorio Barbarigo. Barbarigo hoped to create a well-educated and morally upright clergy to lead the laity towards more orthodox Catholicism, but his efforts were hindered by lay patronage rights in churches, unreliable vicars, the large geographic expanse of his diocese, and ultimately, his own disciplinary style. After three decades, little had changed in the diocese of Padua, in spite of Barbarigo's tireless efforts and financial and political advantages, calling into question the feasibility of Tridentine Reform and of reform in the early modern period in general.
