Renaissance Papacy's Projects of Religious Reform between Ancient Christianity and &quote;Catholic Orientalism&quote;

This volume takes the Renaissance papacy as an institution promoting an ambivalent and complex project of religious reform, where the ideal of the affirmation of a new political power, nourished by classical cultural models, coexists - in dialectic tension - with the attempt to absorb and channel the diverse claims for the spiritual renewal of the Church, based on Biblical and apocalyptic motifs. ...