Counter Reformation

See also: Counter-Reformation and Counterreformation

English

Proper noun

Counter Reformation

  1. Alternative form of Counter-Reformation.
    • 1968, William J. Bouwsma, Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of Counter Reformation, page 32:
      This tendency too was to play an important part in determining the emphasis of the papacy during the Counter Reformation.
    • 1974, Marvin R. O’Connell, The Counter Reformation, 1559–1610, page 220:
      The scene was neighboring Sweden-Finland, which during the Counter Reformation era was ruled by Gustav Vasa’s gifted but somewhat erratic sons.
    • 1981, H. W. Sullivan, Tirso de Molina and the Drama of the Counter Reformation, →ISBN, page 40:
      This system has the purest Spanish pedigree and virtually no history at all before the period of the Counter Reformation.
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