Emerging in Italy during the late 16th century, the Baroque style of architecture was part of the Catholic Church’s strategy to bring people back to their religion. “Baroque architecture emerged as a ...

A central issue is the conflicts between Church and state and between the culture of baroque Catholicism and enlightened despotism. "The style of inquiry and the level of research established in ...

Others, including Adam Zamoyski, suggest the Polish adoption of the style reflected contemporary Sarmatian tradition, which was: Text Itself a unique growth produced by cross-pollination between the ...

the awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowledge is now offered as a key element of 'Baroque Science'. Yet early modern actors never questioned the possibility of certainty itself; including ...

His second book, Catholic Revival in the Age of the Baroque: Religious Identity in Southwest Germany 1550-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2001), expands his analysis of German Catholicism by ...