The pulpit and the press in Reformation Italy / Emily Michelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michelson, Emily.

Series:

I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.

I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation--Italy.

Reformation.

Sermons--History and criticism.

Sermons.

Sermons--Italy.

Italy--Church history.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Italian preachers during the Reformation era found themselves in the trenches of a more desperate war than anything they had ever imagined. This war-the splintering of western Christendom into conflicting sects-was physically but also spiritually violent. In an era of tremendous religious convolution, fluidity, and danger, preachers of all kinds spoke from the pulpit daily, weekly, or seasonally to confront the hottest controversies of their time. Preachers also turned to the printing press in unprecedented numbers to spread their messages. Emily Michelson challenges the stereotype that Protestants succeeded in converting Catholics through superior preaching and printing. Catholic preachers were not simply reactionary and uncreative mouthpieces of a monolithic church. Rather, they deftly and imaginatively grappled with the question of how to preserve the orthodoxy of their flock and maintain the authority of the Roman church while also confronting new, undeniable lay demands for inclusion and participation. These sermons-almost unknown in English until now-tell a new story of the Reformation that credits preachers with keeping Italy Catholic when the region's religious future seemed uncertain, and with fashioning the post-Reformation Catholicism that thrived into the modern era. By deploying the pulpit, pen, and printing press, preachers in Italy created a new religious culture that would survive in an unprecedented atmosphere of competition and religious choice.

Contents:

Where sermons mattered

Mendicants

Sermons and diocesan reform

Treatises

The generation after Trent

Epilogue: sermons and their reception.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674075313

0674075315

9780674075290

0674075293

OCLC:

831664346