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112BOOK REVIEWS 164-165). In a brief preface Professor Ioly Zorattini congratulates tiiose who have assisted in the preparation of diese volumes and the organizations which subsidized research and publication. Professor Ioly Zorattini also deserves congratulations for conceptualizing and realizing a fine project. Paul F. Grendler University of Toronto Inventaire analytique de documents relatifs à l'histoire du diocèse de Liège sous le régime des nonces de Cologne: Giuseppe-Maria Sanfelice (1652— 1659). Translated from Italian and Latin with introduction by Frédérique Donnay. [Analecta Vaticano-Bélgica, deuxième série, Section B: Nonciature de Cologne, VIL] (Rome: Institut Historique Belge de Rome; Turnhout : Brepols Publishers. 1991. Pp. 427. 1050 BF.) La correspondance d'Andréa Mangelli, Internonce des Pays-Bas (1652— 1655). Translated from Italian and Latin with introduction by Lambert (Henri) Vos, O.S.B. [Analecta Vaticano-Bélgica, deuxième série, Section A: Nonciature de Flandre, XV.] (Rome: Institut Historique Belge de Rome; Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 1993. Pp. 451. 2100 BF.) Although die nuncio was at Cologne and the internuncio at Brussels, dieir relatively brief careers at their respective posts saw diem confronted with similar administrative tasks. There was the perpetual conflict between secular and ecclesiastical audiority, in die instance of Cologne between the nuncio and die elector, in die case of Brussels between the viceroy appointed by the Spanish monarch and the internuncio. In all cases each party and his staff attempted to enlarge its traditional jurisdiction or at least to prevent encroachment on what had been die customary spheres of state and church. This was a continuous process with neidier party relaxing its vigilance and using every device imaginable to gain advantage over or outwit the opponent. In Mangelli's case he might have die verbal approval of die Spanish regent, but this was by no means the end of the process because the Councils of Brabant or of Flanders or die ruler's privy councU could (and did) claim provincial privileges enshrined in custom and in particular in the Joyeuse Entrée. Added to this were the privileges and exemptions of cathedral canons, rural deans, heads of monastic orders, and even those of individual parishes. So much for die Church's being an absolutist institution! Jurisdictionalism was one concern of die Church's representatives, purity of doctrine yet anotiier. For the most part purity of doctrine in his era meant die condemnation ofJansenism, which in turn meant meticulous enforcement of the bull condemning it (Cum occasione, 1652). Both ecclesiastics appear to have assumed the right of Rome's condemnation on the universal acceptance of papal infallibility (by no means accepted automaticaUy until 1870) BOOKREVIEWS113 and to have regarded members of the Society ofJesus as the only upholders of sound doctrine. MangeUi had far more trouble widi suspected Jansenists because Louvain was in his sphere of audiority. The dieological faculty there was, according to die internuncio, dioroughly infected. SimUarly, the archbishop of Malines, Jacob Boonen, as well as the bishops of Ghent and Ypres, die latter presiding over die scene of Cornells Jansen's labors, were not only firmly allied witíi die Jansenist party but did everything in tiieir power to see that diose sympatiietic toJansen's positions were appointed to governing and teaching posts. What both representatives of the Holy See faUed to realize was mat Jansen had based his Augustinus on die Saint's teaching on grace so that anyone who rejected Jansen by definition rejected Saint Augustine, an unthinkable position to all parties, Jesuits included. In addition, MangeUi had to deal widi die obviously delaying tactics from die civU authorities in Brussels, who on one pretext or another simply refused to demote Jansenist-inclined professors at Louvain. The civU authorities would claim diey were unable to act without die sanction ofMadrid and, failing this, without die approbation ofdie councils of Brabant or of Flanders. In otiier words botíi Sanfelice and MangeUi, representing die centralizing tendencies of Rome, found diemselves confronted by entrenched privUege and custom, much of it at one period or anodier confirmed by Rome itself. The struggle against eidier real or alleged Jansenism could be carried to ludicrous lengdis as in die case...

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