Robert Bireley, S.J.

We are saddened by the passing of our colleague and friend Fr. Robert L. Bireley, SJ.  An obituary may be found in the Chicago Tribune.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=robert-l-bireley&pid=188486560&fhid=2033.

Bob's latest update on his work is below.

My book, Ferdinand II, Counter-Reformation 1578-1637, was published last week by Cambridge U.P.   Other projects :  "Early Modern Catholicism in the Catholic Historical Review," for the Centennial issue of the CHR;  "The Religious Movements of the Sixteenth Century as Responses to a Changing World," paper given at Louvain December 2013 to be published in the Proceedings of the Conference;   "Theology, War, and Politics, (Catholic Perspective,)" for a volume Theology during the Reformation Era, to be published by Cambridge U.P."   An encyclopedia article on preaching during the Early Modern Period. Botero: The Reason of State. Cambridge U.P, 2017. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Giovanni Botero, translated with note and introduction by Robert Bireley.

Last fall I published Botero. The Reason of State, (Cambridge, 2017)  Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.  It is a translation with an introduction and notes of Giovanni Botero's Della Ragione di stato (1589).