Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations

Published by Penn State University Press 2007

Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy

Contexts and Contestations

Edited by: Ronald K. Delph , Michelle M. Fontaine and John Jeffries Martin

Volume 76 in the series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271090795

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About this book

Leading scholars from Italy and the United States offer a fresh and nuanced image of the religious reform movements on the Italian peninsula in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. United in their conviction that religious ideas can only be fully understood in relation to the particular social, cultural, and political contexts in which they develop, these scholars explore a wide range of protagonists from popes, bishops, and inquisitors to humanists and merchants, to artists, jewelers, and nuns. What emerges is a story of negotiations, mediations, compromises, and of shifting boundaries between heresy and orthodoxy. This book is essential reading for all students of the history of Christianity in early modern Europe.

Author / Editor information

Delph Ronald K. :

Ronald K. Delph teaches medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation history at Eastern Michigan University, where he has been on the history faculty since 1993.Fontaine Michelle M. :

Michelle M. Fontaine was associate professor at the University of Arkansas and now teaches social sciences at the high school level in the San Francisco Bay area.Martin John Jeffries :

John Jeffries Martin serves as chair of the history department at Trinity University in Texas, where he teaches medieval and early modern European history.

Reviews

“These essays show that the contemporary bureaucracy of repression operated with limited effectiveness, accomplishing only a portion of the religious, cultural, and social changes we associated with the age of reform. Indeed, the volume beautifully shows that late sixteenth-century religion was complex, incomprehensible via simple characterization.”
—The Catholic Historical Review

“This volume highlights the newly-discovered complexity of the early modern Italian religious landscape and includes essays by both Italian and North American scholars.… The twelve essays published here demonstrate the range and growing maturity of scholarship on early modern Italian religious culture.”
—Journal of Ecclesiastical History

“This stimulating and eminently readable collection of twelve articles, dedicated to Elizabeth Gleason, aims to highlight some more recent approaches by some leading historians from Italy and North America to the study of religious debate and conflict and concepts of heresy in Italy and of attempts to control the unorthodox from the 1530s to 1590s... Altogether we have a stimulation collection of high scholarship, fostering new contestations to old prejudices.”
—Renaissance Quarterly

“It brings together a superb collection of North American and Italian scholars, and includes both established figures and younger academics addressing the varieties of reform thought and practice in Italy through the course of the sixteenth century.”
—Sixteenth Century Journal

“As volume 76 of the prestigious series Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies from Truman State University Press… The exploration of unedited sources… has produced a number of original contributions.”
—Bruniana & Campanelliana

“One of the strengths of the collection, however, is that it brings together many of the most important scholars of early modern Italian religion from both North America and Italy, some of whose work appears here for the first time in English translation.”
—American Historical Review

“The essays in this book are so effective at complicating the middle decades of the sixteenth century and avoiding overly rigid generalizations that one is left wondering if this subsequent shift away from conciliation toward more militant forms of inquisitorial activity was quite so straightforward and uniform in every location. Although Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy touches on both the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, its essays are at their most effective when rehabilitating the mid-sixteenth century from the limitations of the traditional “Reformation” and “Counter-Reformation” framework. Perhaps with further scrutiny, the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries will prove to be an era of similar contestation and compromise in early modern Italy, rather than of naked repression deferred.”
—Book Reviews and Notes

“An anthology of scholarly essays by learned authors examining religious reform movements on the Italian peninsula during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries... an index for quick references rounds out this thoughtful and multidimensional scrutiny of a critical turning point in Christianity’s historical evolution.”
—Midwest Book Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Ronald K. Delph, Michelle M. Fontaine and John Jeffries Martin Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction. Renovatio and Reform in Early Modern Italy John Jeffries Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Reformers and Heretics. New Perspectives
Lorenzo Lotto and the Reformation in Venice Massimo Firpo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. Making Heresy Marginal in Modena Michelle M. Fontaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 3. Rumors of Heresy in Mantua Paul V. Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Part Two. Culture and Religion. The Contexts of Reform
Chapter 4. Renovatio, Reformatio, and Humanist Ambition in Rome Ronald K. Delph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Chapter 5. An Erasmian Legacy. Ecclesiastes and the Reform of Preaching at Trent Frederick J. McGinness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 6. The Turbulent Life of the Florentine Community in Venice Paolo Simoncelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 7. Gasparo Contarini and the University of Padua Paul F. Grendler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Chapter 8. Venice and Justice. Saint Mark and Moses Marion Leathers Kuntz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Part Three. The Vicissitudes of Repression
Chapter 9. The Inquisitor as Mediator Silvana Seidel Menchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Chapter 10. The Expurgatory Policy of the Church and the Works of Gasparo Contarini Gigliola Fragnito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Chapter 11. The Heresy of a Venetian Prelate. Archbishop Filippo Mocenigo Elena Bonora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Chapter 12. Legal Remedies for Forged Monachization in Early Modern Italy Anne Jacobson Schutte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
An Epilogue John W. O’Malley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 280

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Published: August 25, 2006
ISBN: 9780271090795