Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch. 1 Roman Eloquence and Christian Virtue: A Paideia for Defenders of the Respublica Christiana
Ch. 2 "Vices and Virtues, Punishment and Glory": Homiletic Instructions, Sacred Rhetoric, and Zeal for the Word of God
Ch. 3 "And to Heare the Maner of the Italian Preacher. . . ": Tridentine Rome and the Ambience of the Sacred Orator
Ch. 4 "To Penetrate into the Deep-Down Things . . . ": Arcana Dei and the Majesty of the Papal Liturgy
Ch. 5 Right Thinking: Conformity, Militant Catholicism, and the Return to Discipline
Ch. 6 Like "A Sundial Set into a Rock": The Supreme Hierarch of the Church Militant
Ch. 7 From Vices to Virtues, Punishment to Glory: Rome, Civitas Sancta
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Liturgical Texts for the Feasts Celebrated by the Papal Court with a Latin Sermon
Appendix 2: List of Popes
Abbreviations Used in Notes
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index