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The historical problem addressed in this volume may be framed as follows: in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation, how did the Roman Church respond to a European space shaped by the coexistence of multiple confessions? What policies and strategies were devised to ensure the survival of Catholicism and to safeguard papal authority? Which bodies of knowledge, values, and interests informed these choices – and which often conflicting and contradictory dynamics emerged within the highest levels of the institution? The essays collected here invite a reconsideration of the relationship between the Roman Church and multiconfessional Europe, not in terms of abstract principles or fixed models, but through the shifting interplay of norms and practices, claims to universality and strategies of accommodation, functional memory and oblivion. What comes into view is not a coherent or unified policy, but a plurality of responses shaped within a complex institutional machinery, operating across diverse political, legal, and confessional landscapes.

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