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The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674075290
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation ItalyDDC classification:
  • 274.506
LOC classification:
  • BR390
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Where Sermons Mattered -- 2. Mendicant Preachers -- 3. Sermons and Diocesan Reform -- 4. Treatises for Laypeople -- 5. The Generation after Trent -- Epilogue: Sermons and Their Reception -- Appendix: Key Preachers in Italy -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region's violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Where Sermons Mattered -- 2. Mendicant Preachers -- 3. Sermons and Diocesan Reform -- 4. Treatises for Laypeople -- 5. The Generation after Trent -- Epilogue: Sermons and Their Reception -- Appendix: Key Preachers in Italy -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region's violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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