Religious History

  See bibliography, ii. Hamilton, Calendar of State Papers, 
  Ireland, 4 vols. Calendar of State Papers (Carew), 6 vols., 
  1867-73. Archivium Hibernicus, vols. i., ii., iii. (1912-14). 

  See bibliography, chap. vii.-ix. Calendar of State Papers, 
  Ireland (James I.), 5 vols., 1872-80. Idem (Charles I.), 5 vols. 
  Calendar of the Clarendon Papers, 2 vols., 1869-72. Carte, 

                     (a) Baianism.

                     NEW CONTROVERSIES AND ERRORS

       (a) Anti-Christian Philosophy of the Eighteenth Century.

  See bibliography, chap. iv. (b). Ciacconius, Vitae et res gestae 
  Romanorum Pontificum, 1677. Sandini, Vitae Rom. Pontif. , etc., 

  See bibliography, chap. vi. (g). Aubry, La Methode des etudes 
  ecclesiastiques dans nos seminaires depuis le concile de Trente , 
  1900. Picot, Essai historique sur l'influence de la religion en 

by James MacCaffrey

The fifteenth century may be regarded as a period of transition from the ideals of the Middle Ages to those of modern times. The world was fast becoming more secular in its tendencies, and, as a necessary result, theories and principles that had met till then with almost universal acceptance in literature, in art, in education, and in government, were challenged by many as untenable.

                     (a) The Renaissance.