Censorship and Heresy in Revolutionary England and Counter-Reformation Rome

Censorship and Heresy in Revolutionary England and Counter-Reformation Rome
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9783319574394
ISBN-13 : 3319574396
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Censorship and Heresy in Revolutionary England and Counter-Reformation Rome by : Giorgio Caravale

This book explores the secrets of the extraordinary editorial success of Jacobus Acontius' Satan's Stratagems, an important book that intrigued readers and outraged religious authorities across Europe. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work, first published in Basel in 1565, was a resounding success. For the next century it was republished dozens of times in different historical context, from France to Holland to England. The work sowed the idea that religious persecution and coercion are stratagems made up by the devil to destroy the kingdom of God. Acontius' work prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflicts. In Revolutionary England it was propagated by latitudinarians and independents, but also harshly censored by Presbyterians as a dangerous Socinian book. Giorgio Caravale casts new light on the reasons why both Catholics and Protestants welcomed this work as one of the most threatening attacks to their religious power. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of toleration, in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation across Europe.

Global Reformations

Global Reformations
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780429678257
ISBN-13 : 0429678258
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Global Reformations by : Nicholas Terpstra

Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world. The volume explores global developments and tracks the many ways in which Reformation movements shaped relations of Christians with other Christians, and also with Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and aboriginal groups in the Americas. Contributions explore the negotiations, tensions, and contacts that developed across social, gender, and religious lines in different parts of the globe, focusing on how different convictions about religious reform and approaches to it shaped social action and cross-confessional encounters. The essays explore the convergence of religious reform, global expansion, and governmental consolidation in the early modern world and examine the Reformation as a global phenomenon; the authors ask how a global frame complicates our understanding of what the Reformation itself was and offer a unique and up-to-date examination of the Reformation that broadens readers’ understanding in creative and useful ways. Demonstrating new research and innovative approaches in the study of cross-cultural contact during the early modern period, this volume is ideal for advanced undergraduates and graduates of early modern history, religious history, women's & gender studies, and global history.

Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy

Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : 9789004375871
ISBN-13 : 9004375872
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy by :

Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy illuminates the vibrancy of spiritual beliefs and practices which profoundly shaped family life in this era. Scholarship on Catholicism has tended to focus on institutions, but the home was the site of religious instruction and reading, prayer and meditation, communal worship, multi-sensory devotions, contemplation of religious images and the performance of rituals, as well as extraordinary events such as miracles. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this volume affirms the central place of the household to spiritual life and reveals the myriad ways in which devotion met domestic needs. The seventeen essays encompass religious history, the histories of art and architecture, material culture, musicology, literary history, and social and cultural history. Contributors are Erminia Ardissino, Michele Bacci, Michael J. Brody, Giorgio Caravale, Maya Corry, Remi Chiu, Sabrina Corbellini, Stefano Dall’Aglio, Marco Faini, Iain Fenlon, Irene Galandra Cooper, Jane Garnett, Joanna Kostylo, Alessia Meneghin, Margaret A. Morse, Elisa Novi Chavarria, Gervase Rosser, Zuzanna Sarnecka, Katherine Tycz, and Valeria Viola.

Francis Cheynell

Francis Cheynell
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9789004688018
ISBN-13 : 9004688013
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Francis Cheynell by : Sergiej Saverio Slavinski

Sergiej S. Slavinski presents the first major study of Francis Cheynell's 1650 treatise on the doctrine of the Trinity. Situating Cheynell in his historical context, Slavinski examines Cheynell's role in the Trinitarian controversies of the Civil War and Interregnum England. The book demonstrates the interplay between polemic and piety in a work of Reformed scholasticism, showcasing how Cheynell’s eclectic theological method in reading Scripture reinforced his conviction of the Trinitarian persons as one true God. Slavinski argues that Cheynell’s polemical-practical Trinitarianism has the idea of Trinitarian oneness as infinite simplicity at its core.

Errors, False Opinions and Defective Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Errors, False Opinions and Defective Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Publisher : Firenze University Press
Total Pages : 147
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ISBN-10 : 9791221502657
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Synopsis Errors, False Opinions and Defective Knowledge in Early Modern Europe by : Marco Faini

This volume offers a series of insights into the fascinating topic of errors and false opinions in early modern Europe. It explores the semantic richness of the category of ‘error’ in a time when such category becomes crucial to European thought and culture. During decades of increasing normativity in the social and religious sphere as well as in the epistemological status of disciplines, recognizing and correcting error becomes an imperative task whose importance can hardly be overestimated. The efforts at establishing religious, political, and scientific orthodoxy led philosophers, doctors, philologist, scientist, and theologians, to reconsider the very foundations of knowledge in the attempt to dispel errors. Spanning geographically from Italy to France, England, and Germany, the articles here gathered provide stimulating glimpses into one of the most fascinating, multifaceted, and controversial aspects of early modern culture.

In Times of Strife

In Times of Strife
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Publisher : Taylor Institution Library
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9781838464134
ISBN-13 : 1838464131
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis In Times of Strife by : Charles Webster

The book explores the pursuit of humanitarian objectives in the face of war, exile and extreme social dislocation. Each chapter covers a pair of intellectuals and artists: Samuel Hartlib & Comenius, John Hall & William Rand, Ernst Barlach & Jakob Steinhardt, Salo & Robert Pratzer.

Forbidden Prayer

Forbidden Prayer
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781409429883
ISBN-13 : 1409429881
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Forbidden Prayer by : Giorgio Caravale

This book provides one of the first studies on ecclesiastical censorship entirely based on documents from the Holy Office Archives that up to 1998 were inaccessible to the great majority of scholars. It provides for the first time a general overview of ecclesiastical political strategies toward a crucial field of sixteenth-century religious book production, the vernacular devotional literature. In so doing it offers a fascinating insight into the Church's attempt to purge Catholic devotional works of heterodox beliefs and superstitious elements.

The Censor, the Editor, and the Text

The Censor, the Editor, and the Text
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 0812240111
ISBN-13 : 9780812240115
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Censor, the Editor, and the Text by : Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin

In The Censor, the Editor, and the Text, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin examines the impact of Catholic censorship on the publication and dissemination of Hebrew literature in the early modern period. Hebrew literature made the transition to print in Italian print houses, most of which were owned by Christians. These became lively meeting places for Christian scholars, rabbis, and the many converts from Judaism who were employed as editors and censors. Raz-Krakotzkin examines the principles and practices of ecclesiastical censorship that were established in the second half of the sixteenth century as a part of this process. The book examines the development of censorship as part of the institutionalization of new measures of control over literature in this period, suggesting that we view surveillance of Hebrew literature not only as a measure directed against the Jews but also as a part of the rise of Hebraist discourse and therefore as a means of integrating Jewish literature into the Christian canon. On another level, The Censor, the Editor, and the Text explores the implications of censorship in relation to other agents that participated in the preparation of texts for publishing—authors, publishers, editors, and readers. The censorship imposed upon the Jews had a definite impact on Hebrew literature, but it hardly denied its reading, in fact confirming the right of the Jews to possess and use most of their literature. By bringing together two apparently unrelated issues—the role of censorship in the creation of print culture and the place of Jewish culture in the context of Christian society—Raz-Krakotzkin advances a new outlook on both, allowing each to be examined through the conceptual framework usually reserved for the other.

Western Civilization: A Global and Comparative Approach

Western Civilization: A Global and Comparative Approach
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 494
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ISBN-10 : 9781317452270
ISBN-13 : 1317452275
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Western Civilization: A Global and Comparative Approach by : Kenneth L. Campbell

Featuring the one author, one voice approach, this text is ideal for instructors who do not wish to neglect the importance of non-Western perspectives on the study of the past. The book is a brief, affordable presentation providing a coherent examination of the past from ancient times to the present. Religion, everyday life, and transforming moments are the three themes employed to help make the past interesting, intelligible, and relevant to contemporary society.

Censorship

Censorship
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 2950
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ISBN-10 : 9781136798641
ISBN-13 : 1136798641
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Censorship by : Derek Jones

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.