Preaching and inquisition in Renaissance Italy : words on trial

Author:

Caravale, Giorgio

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Subject:

Chizzola, Ippolito, - active 16th century
Chizzola, Ippolito, - active 16th century - Correspondence
Catholic Church - Clergy - Correspondence
Preaching - Italy - History - 16th century
Inquisition - Italy
Christian heresies - Italy - History - 16th century
Trials (Heresy) - Italy - History - 16th century
Clergy - Italy - Correspondence

Contributor:

Gordon, Frank, translator

ISBN:

9789004325456 and 900432545X

Series:

Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700

Description:

viii, 274 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-266) and index

Contents:

Introduction to the English edition. The ambiguity of the Word; Words on trial; inquisition and historiography; The history of preaching in Renaissance Italy. Continuity and discontinuity; Preaching and heresy. A two-sided coin ; Sermons, orality and inquisitorial sources ; Orality and written culture; Risks and limits -- Prologue : preaching, heresy, and inquisition in the first half of the sixteenth-century -- Brescia, land of contagion -- A dangerous friendship -- A network of compromising relationships -- Pulpit on trial: the beginning of the Roman inquisitorial process -- An Erasmian preacher -- A controversial sacrament -- Ambiguities of the word: dissimulation, confession and preaching -- The end of the trial -- Rehabilitation -- Conversion -- Cosimo de Medici's Roman spy: 'secret affairs' and 'insults' -- At the service of Holy Roman church -- The 'scorpion's tail': controversy in power -- Appendix : Chizzola trial

Summary:

"As has been well documented, the printed word was an essential vehicle for the transmission of reformed theology, and one that has left a tangible record for historians to explore. Yet as contemporaries well recognized, books were only a part of the process. It was the spoken word - and especially preaching - that created the demand for printed works. Sermons were the plough that prepared the ground for Lutheran literature to flourish. In order to better understand the relationship between oral sermons and the spread of protestant ideas, Preaching and Inquisition in Renaissance Italy draws upon the records of the Roman Inquisition to see how that institution confronted the challenges of reform on the Italian peninsula in the sixteenth century. At the heart of its subject matter is the increasingly sophisticated rhetorical skill of heterodox preachers at the time, who achieved their ends by silence and omission rather than positive affirmations of Lutheran tenets"-- Page 4 of cover

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

BX4705.C4774 C3713 2016

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