Celeste McNamara

Title

Dr

Institution

Dublin City University

Current Research

'Sin in the Serenissima: Policing Illicit Sexuality in Early Modern Venice'

Recent Publications

“Pastoral Care,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent, ed. Nelson Minnich, 225-241. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

“Schism in the stato da mar: the Bishop of Padua and Missions in South-Eastern Europe” Historični seminar (Historical Seminar) 14, (2021): 29-46.

The Bishop’s Burden: Reforming the Catholic Church in Early Modern Italy (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2020).

“Molding the Model Bishop from Trent to Vatican II,” Church History 88, (2019): 58-86.

Forthcoming Publications

“Priests Behaving Badly: The Problem of Scandal in the Early Modern Catholic Church,” The Journal of Modern History (forthcoming).

“The Impact of Catholic Reform on Mannerist Altarpieces” in Devotio Maniera: The Mannerist Altarpiece in Italy circa 1550, edited by Steven Cody and Tiffany Hunt .