Preaching and Inquisition in Renaissance Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Preaching and Inquisition in Renaissance Italy write by Giorgio Caravale. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Preaching and Inquisition in Renaissance Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Prophecy and People in Renaissance Italy
Prophecy and People in Renaissance Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prophecy and People in Renaissance Italy write by Ottavia Niccoli. This book was released on 1990-08. Prophecy and People in Renaissance Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the midst of the religious ferment, foreign invasions, and internal political strife that beset Italy before the full effects of the Counter-Reformation, the powerful and humble alike turned to popular prophecy for guidance and solace. Ottavia Niccoli examines here the forms of these prophecies--including interpretations of natural disasters, abnormal births, floods, and planetary conjunctions--and gives examples of how they were transmitted from the lower classes to the elite through street singers, apocalyptic preachers, astrologers, and printers. By tracing the ongoing revision of the prophecies, Niccoli reveals them as an indication of how various levels of society viewed events of the time, as a form of propaganda for such causes as anti-Lutheranism, and as a reflection of the interaction between "high" and "low" culture. Based on popular leaflets, diaries, civic chronicles, and iconographic sources, this book explores the expression of a culture in which nature, religion, and politics formed a unified system with a uniform code of interpretation. It connects the decline of prophecy in Italy with the end of the Italian wars and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation, when popular preaching was banned and charismatic religion discouraged.
The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy
The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy write by Emily Michelson. This book was released on 2013-04-01. The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region’s violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours.
Anointment of Dionisio
Anointment of Dionisio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anointment of Dionisio write by Marion Leathers Kuntz. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Anointment of Dionisio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Prosecution of Heresy
The Prosecution of Heresy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prosecution of Heresy write by John A. Tedeschi. This book was released on 1991. The Prosecution of Heresy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A series of studies on the judicial processes by which the Inquisition combatted Protestantism, witchcraft and occultism.
