Abstract: (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)Trent: What Happened at the Council . By John W. O'Malley . Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2013. 335 pp. $27.95 cloth.Book Reviews and NotesJohn O'Malley sets a clear goal for this very readable book: to provide an introduction to the Council of Trent (1545-1563), and to furnish a "framework" (12) for understanding it. Both the long struggle to convoke a council, and what happened when it finally met at Trent, as well as what did not happen over that eighteen ...
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