Controllo romano e disciplinamento post-tridentino: resistenze liturgiche e pletora clericale nella Grecìa salentina tra XVI e XVIII secolo

The Hellenophone enclave of Terra d'Otranto resisted full Latin normalization for a long time. After the Council of Trent, despite returning under Roman control, the bishops struggled to bring Catholic orthodoxy back to the liturgical level and quickly eradicate the old customs of an ecclesiastical body that did not passively accept sacred celibacy. The phenomenon of married priests during the seventeenth century gradually disappeared through the canonical weapon of the assignment of benefits, while it persisted for married clerics, whose presence within parish churches became cumbersome for a good part of the eighteenth century.