Catholic Reform and protestant Reform. Its cultural incidence

Abstract

Until recently the opinion that pointed to two reforms prevailed: the "Reforma" (Lutheran or Protestant) and the "Contrarreforma" (Catholic) implying that the Catholic Reformation had been a consequence of the present Reformation, and that It would have started only after the Council of Trent. This idea has been denied by modern historiography, which has demonstrated in a reliable way that the reform movement in the Catholic Church had begun before, although it slowly made its way through the Late Middle Ages until culminating in the great Tridentine Catholic Reformation. This work offers a significant synthesis of the Catholic Reformation in its various manifestations, especially in the Spanish sphere, and around it its relationship with the Protestant Reformation.