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The provincial Council\u2019s context, the Roman Curia, and regulatory framework<\/p>\n<p>5. Three Centuries of Provincial Councils<\/p>\n<p>Abbreviations<\/p>\n<p>I. Districts, Metropolitanates and Ecclesiastical Territories: geo-local aspects of ecclesiastical territorial evolution<\/p>\n<p>1. Geography and Chronology<\/p>\n<p>1.1 The Italian Peninsula<\/p>\n<p>1.2 The Iberian Peninsula<\/p>\n<p>1.3 The State of France<\/p>\n<p>1.4 The Low Countries<\/p>\n<p>1.5 The Habsburg Empire<\/p>\n<p>1.6 Europe between Catholic tradition, missionary activity and Eastern rites: Ireland, Poland and Russia<\/p>\n<p>1.7 The Missionary World<\/p>\n<p>1.8 The Roman Perspective<\/p>\n<p>2. The Relationships between Episcopacy and Territory: Evolutions in Districts and Theology<\/p>\n<p>2.1 Ecclesiastical Territory in the Council of Trent\u2019s Decrees<\/p>\n<p>2.2 The Alternatives<\/p>\n<p>3. Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>II. The Curia and Provincial Councils. Activity of the Congregations of the Council and Bureaucratic Procedure<\/p>\n<p>1. The Tridentine Decree de Recipiendis et Observandis Decretis Concilii and the Origins of the Congregation of the Council<\/p>\n<p>1.1 The background of the foundation of the Congregation of the Council: Events<\/p>\n<p>1.2 The background of the foundation of the Congregation of the Council: Interpretation<\/p>\n<p>1.3 The Congregation of the Council\u2019s decisio authentica<\/p>\n<p>1.4 The Council of Trent led to adding curial bodies<\/p>\n<p>1.5 The Congregation of the Council\u2019s Archives<\/p>\n<p>1.6 The juridical value reserved for the Congregations\u2019 Decisions from a historical perspective<\/p>\n<p>1.7 Consequences for the Corpus iuris canonici<\/p>\n<p>2. The Bureaucratic Procedures: confirmatio, recognitio and approbatio of Provincial Councils<\/p>\n<p>2.1 Synodal Structures and ordo concilii<\/p>\n<p>2.2 The Recognition, between the act of correction and enactment\/promulgation<\/p>\n<p>2.3 Legal value\/force of the Congregation\u2019s recognition<\/p>\n<p>2.4 The Seasons of Revisions and Recognitions in Provincial Councils<\/p>\n<p>3. Doubts, Decisions and Declarations on the Second Canon, XXIV session, de reformatione<\/p>\n<p>3.1 Rights and Duties in Convening Provincial Councils<\/p>\n<p>3.2. Presidency, Direction and Dissolution of Provincial Councils<\/p>\n<p>3.3 Memberships<\/p>\n<p>3.4 Seats and rights to precedence<\/p>\n<p>3.5 Exempt Bishops<\/p>\n<p>3.6 Frequency<\/p>\n<p>3.7 Purposes and Matters of Discussion of Provincial Councils<\/p>\n<p>3.8 Conflicts<\/p>\n<p>4. Conclusions<\/p>\n<p>III. Provincial Councils Worldwide between 1517 and 1817<\/p>\n<p>1. Periodization and the Seasons of Provincial Councils<\/p>\n<p>1.1 First phase, from 1517 to 1544<\/p>\n<p>1.2 Second phase, from 1545 to 1563<\/p>\n<p>1.3 Third phase, from 1564 to 1574<\/p>\n<p>1.4 Forth phase, from 1575 to 1621<\/p>\n<p>1.5 Fifth phase, from 1622 to 1724<\/p>\n<p>1.6 Sixth phase, from 1725 to 1817<\/p>\n<p>2. The Models of Councils<\/p>\n<p>2.1 The Members and Organization of Councils<\/p>\n<p>2.2 The Frequency of Councils<\/p>\n<p>2.3 The Content of the Final Decisions<\/p>\n<p>3. Provincial Councils by Geography, Area, and Political Power<\/p>\n<p>3.1 The Papal State and Papal fiefs<\/p>\n<p>3.2 The Grand Dukedom of Tuscany<\/p>\n<p>3.3 The Republic of Genoa and the Republic of Venice<\/p>\n<p>3.4 The Kingdom of Spain (Iberian Peninsula)<\/p>\n<p>3.5 The Spanish Dukedom of Milan<\/p>\n<p>3.6 The Spanish Viceroyalty of Naples and the Kingdom of Sardinia<\/p>\n<p>3.7 The Spanish Overseas Empire of America and Asia<\/p>\n<p>3.8 The Low Countries and the Spanish fief<\/p>\n<p>3.9 The Kingdom of Portugal in the Iberian Peninsula<\/p>\n<p>3.10 The Portuguese Overseas Empire<\/p>\n<p>3.11 The Kingdom of France and the French Empire<\/p>\n<p>3.12 The Habsburg Empire<\/p>\n<p>3.13 The Kingdom of England<\/p>\n<p>3.14 The Kingdom of Ireland<\/p>\n<p>3.15 The Kingdom of Scotland<\/p>\n<p>3.16 The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth<\/p>\n<p>4. Provinces without Councils: some Cases<\/p>\n<p>Appendix<\/p>\n<p>IV. Towards a New Synodal Season<\/p>\n<p>1. Missionary activity, the New Churches, and their normative production<\/p>\n<p>2. A new paradigm: from the Acta Ecclesiae Mediolanensis of Carlo Borromeo to the De Synodo dioecesana of Prospero Lambertini<\/p>\n<p>V. Appendix: Analytical Description of the Sources<\/p>\n<p>Inedited Sources<\/p>\n<p>Edited Sources<\/p>\n<p>VI. Complete list of quoted publications<\/p>\n<p>Indices<\/p>\n<p>Index of sources<\/p>\n<p>Index of the names<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. 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