Nicodemites : faith and concealment between Italy and Tudor England / by M. Anne Overell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Overell, M. Anne, author.

Series:

St. Andrews studies in Reformation history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nicodemus (Biblical figure).

Nicodemus.

Nicodemites--Early works to 1800.

Nicodemites.

Physical Description:

xii, 280 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden: Brill, [2018]

Summary:

In Nicodemites: Faith and Concealment Between Italy and Tudor England, Anne Overell examines a rarely glimpsed aspect of sixteenth-century religious strife: the thinkers, clerics and rulers who concealed their faith. This work goes beyond recent scholarly interest in conformity to probe inward dilemmas and the spiritual and cultural meanings of pretence. Among the dissimulators who appear here are Cardinal Reginald Pole and his circle in Italy and in England, and also John Cheke and William Cecil. Although Protestant and Catholic polemicists condemned all Nicodemites, most of them survived reformation violence, while their habits of silence and secrecy became influential. This study concludes that widespread evasion about religious belief contributed to the erratic development of toleration.0.

Contents:

Part 1 Lives

1 The Landscape of 'Holy Cunning' p. 15

2 A Nursery of Nicodemism: The Circle of Reginald Pole in Italy p. 33

3 Pole's Nicodemite Piety? Viterbo to England p. 52

4 The Volte-Faces of Pietro Vanni p. 76

5 Nicodemite's Progress: Edward Courtenay p. 96

6 The Confusions of Il Beneficio di Cristo p. 115

7 The Case against Nicodemites p. 131

8 Exploiting Francesco Spiera in Italy and in England p. 150

9 Counsel for Nicodemite Sinners: Vermigli, Curione and Cheke p. 165

10 Radical Texts for the Queen of Nicodemites p. 186

11 Mixed Messages in Elizabethan England p. 205

12 Echoes p. 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index.

ISBN:

9004331662

9789004331662

OCLC:

1043569122