Venice's hidden enemies : Italian heretics in a Renaissance city / John Jeffries Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, John Jeffries, 1951-

Contributor:

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian heresies--Italy--Venice--History--16th century.

Christian heresies.

Renaissance--Italy--Venice.

Renaissance.

Reformation.

History.

Italy--Venice.

Reformation--Italy--Venice.

Venice (Italy)--Church history.

Venice (Italy).

Venice (Italy)--Intellectual life.

Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797.

Penn Provenance:

Peters, Edward, 1936- (donor) (Lea copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 287 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

John Hopkins Paperbacks edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Renaissance Venice is generally portrayed as a city of harmony and consensus. This book offers a sharply different view by highlighting the history of religious dissent in this early modern city. Drawing on sixteenth-century records from archives of the Roman Inquisition, John Jeffries Martin reconstructs the social and cultural worlds of the Venetian heretics--those men and women who articulated their hopes for religious and political reform. Among them were Evangelists, Protestants, Anabaptists, Antitrinitarians, and Millenarians, whose ideologies ranged from moderate to radical. The protagonists included men and women from all social classes; but artisans, above all those in the elite crafts, proved especially likely to give their support to the new reform ideas. Martin's analysis, which explores the interconnections of religious beliefs and social experience, offers new perspectives on the Italian Reformation and demonstrates widespread persistent popular support for this reform of church and society well after the establishment of the Roman Inquisition in the 1540s.

Contents:

A republic between Renaissance and reform

The coming of the Inquisition

Evangelism and the emergence of popular reform

The humanity of Christ and the hope for the Messiah

Hiding

The place of heresy in a hierarchical society

The turn of the screw

Two horseman of the Apocalypse.

Notes:

Originally published: Berkeley : University of California press, 1993, in series: Studies on the history of society and culture.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Edward Peters.

ISBN:

0801878772

9780801878770

OCLC:

52587502

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