Preaching and inquisition in Renaissance Italy : words on trial
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Preaching and inquisition in Renaissance Italy : words on trial
（Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700）
Brill, c2016
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Predicazione e inquisizione nell'Italia del Cinquecento : Ippolito Chizzola tra eresia e controversia antiprotestante
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Bibliography: p. [248]-266
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
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
1 Brescia, Land of Contagion
2 A Dangerous Friendship
3 A Network of Compromising Relationships
4 Pulpit on Trial: The Beginning of the Roman Inquisitorial Process
5 An Erasmian Preacher
6 A Controversial Sacrament
7 Ambiguities of the Word: Dissimulation, Confession and Preaching
8 The End of the Trial
9 Rehabilitation
10 Conversion
11 Cosimo de Medici's Roman Spy: 'Secret Afffairs' and 'Insults'
12 At the Service of Holy Roman Church
13 The 'Scorpion's Tail': Controversy in Power
Appendix: Chizzola trial
Bibliography
Index of Names
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