Cardinal Contarini at Regensburg

The aim of this book is to demonstrate that the sixteenth-century "e;ecumenical movement,"e; and in particular, the colloquy between Catholics and Protestants at Regensburg in 1541, was by no means an idle "e;dream of an understanding,"e; doomed from the start. Contarini's campaign for reconciliation mirrors the richness and elusiveness of pre-Tridentine Catholicism. It was the clash of cultures a...