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.