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Author Caravale, Giorgio, author

Title Preaching and inquisition in Renaissance Italy : words on trial / by Giorgio Caravale
Published Boston : Brill, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Introduction to the English Edition; Introduction to the English Edition; 1 The Ambiguity of the Word; 2 Words on Trial; 3 Inquisition and Historiography ; 4 The History of Preaching in Renaissance Italy. Continuity and Discontinuity; 5 Preaching and Heresy. A Two-sided Coin; 6 Sermons, Orality and Inquisitorial Sources ; 7 Orality and Written Culture ; 8 Risks and Limits; Prologue; Preaching, Heresy and Inquisition in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century ; Chapter 1; Brescia, Land of Contagion; Chapter 2; A Dangerous Friendship
Chapter 3A Network of Compromising Relationships; Chapter 4; Pulpit on Trial: The Beginning of the Roman Inquisitorial Process; Chapter 5; An Erasmian Preacher; Chapter 6; A Controversial Sacrament; Chapter 7; Ambiguities of the Word: Dissimulation, Confession and Preaching; Chapter 8; The End of the Trial; Chapter 9; Rehabilitation; Chapter 10; Conversion; Chapter 11; Cosimo de Medici's Roman Spy: 'Secret Affairs' and 'Insults'; Chapter 12; At the Service of the Holy Roman Church; Chapter 13; The 'Scorpion's Tail': Controversy in Power; Appendix: Chizzola trial; Bibliography; Index of Names
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
Subject Chizzola, Ippolito
Chizzola, Ippolito, active 16th century -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Chizzola, Ippolito, active 16th century fast
Subject Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Correspondence.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Christian heresies -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
Trials (Heresy) -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
Preaching -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
Inquisition -- Italy
Clergy -- Italy -- Correspondence
Christian heresies
Clergy
Inquisition
Preaching
Trials (Heresy)
Italy
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004325468
9789004325463