Religious authority in the Spanish Renaissance
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Religious authority in the Spanish Renaissance
（The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, 118th ser.,
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-304) and index
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ISBN 9780801862434
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The traditional view of the Spanish Renaissance is of a battle of opposites - humanists against scholastics, and followers of Erasmus in discord with conservative Catholics. In this work, Lu Ann Homza aims to offer a more subtle paradigm, recovering profound nuances in Spanish intellectual and religious history. Through analyses of Inquisition trials, biblical translations, treatises on witchcraft and tracts on the episcopate and penance, Homza illuminates the intellectual autonomy and energy of Spain's ecclesiastics. Although historians have long known that Spanish intellectuals in the early modern period could display inconsistencies in their preferences for humanism or scholasticism, this book demonstrates how such inconsistency - or elasticity - actually played out in practice. Charting the ways in which Spanish priests and friars read and cited their sources and designed the clerical and secular estates, Homza reveals surprising movements between humanism and scholasticism. As they regarded the Bible, Church history, or the pastoral care of souls, Spanish ecclesiastics displayed more flexibility and creativity than historians previously imagined.
Homza's approach aims to considerably deepen our understanding of the Renaissance in Spain, and her findings have implications for the understanding of the European Renaissance as a whole.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Trial of Juan de Vegara
Chapter 2. Erasmus and the New Testament: The Valladolid Conference of 1527
Chapter 3. A Converso and the Old Testament: The Literal Sense of Scripture
Chapter 4. The Construction of the Shepherd
Chapter 5. The Formation of the Flock
Chapter 6. The Bewitching of the Sheep
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780801879043
Description
In Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance, Lu Ann Homza rejects the traditional view of the Spanish Renaissance as a battle of strict opposites in favor of a more nuanced history. Through analyses of Inquisition trials, biblical translations, treatises on witchcraft, and tracts on the episcopate and penance, Homza illuminates the intellectual autonomy and energy of Spain's ecclesiastics, exploring the flexibility and inconsistency in their preferences for humanism or scholasticism, preferences which have long been thought to be steadfast.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Trial of Juan de Vegara
Chapter 2. Erasmus and the New Testament: The Valladolid Conference of 1527
Chapter 3. A Converso and the Old Testament: The Literal Sense of Scripture
Chapter 4. The Construction of the Shepherd
Chapter 5. The Formation of the Flock
Chapter 6. The Bewitching of the Sheep
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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