Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies)

Leading scholars from Italy and the United States offer a fresh and nuanced image of the religious reform movements on the Italian peninsula in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. United in their conviction that religious ideas can only be fully understood in relation to the particular social, cultural, and political contexts in which they develop, these scholars explore a wide range of protagonists from popes, bishops, and inquisitors to humanists and merchants, to artists, jewelers, and nuns. What emerges is a story of negotiations, mediations, compromises, and of shifting boundaries between heresy and orthodoxy. This book is essential reading for all students of the history of Christianity in early modern Europe. Introduction: Renovatio And Reform In Early Modern Italy / John Jeffries Martin -- Part I: Reformers And Heretics : New Perspectives. Lorenzo Lotto And The Reformation In Venice / Massimo Firpo ; Making Heresy Marginal In Modena / Michelle M. Fontaine ; Rumors Of Heresy In Mantua / Paul V. Murphy -- Part Ii: Culture And Religion : The Contexts Of Reform. Renovatio, Reformatio, And Humanist Ambition In Rome / Ronald K. Delph ; An Erasmian Legacy : Ecclesiastes And The Reform Of Preaching At Trent / Frederick J. Mcginness ; The Turbulent Life Of The Florentine Community In Venice / Paolo Simoncelli -- Gasparo Contarini And The University Of Padua / Paul F. Grendler -- Venice And Justice : Saint Mark And Moses / Marion Leathers Kuntz -- Part Iii: The Vicissitudes Of Repression. The Inquisitor As Mediator / Silvana Seidel Menchi ; The Expurgatory Policy Of The Church And The Works Of Gasparo Contarini / Gigliola Fragnito ; The Heresy Of A Venetian Prelate : Archbishop Filippo Mocenigo / Elena Bonora -- Legal Remedies For Forced Monachization In Early Modern Italy / Anne Jacobson Schutte -- An Epilogue / John W. O'malley. [editors] Ronald K. Delph, Michelle M. Fontaine, John Jeffries Martin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.