Venice's hidden enemies : Italian heretics in a Renaissance city /
How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1993.
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| Collection: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
16. |
| Accès en ligne: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21282 |
Table des matières:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Salvation and Society in Sixteenth- Century Venice
- 1. A Republic Between Renaissance and Reform
- 2. The Coming of the Inquisition
- 3. Evangelism and the Emergence of Popular Reform
- 4. The Humanity of Christ and the Hope for the Messiah
- 5. Hiding
- 6. The Place of Heresy in a Hierarchical Society
- 7. The Turn of the Screw
- 8. Two Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Epilogue: The Final Executions
- Appendix: A Note on the Quantitative Study of the Inquisition
- Sources and Bibliography: Heresy and Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy
- General Index
- Index of Secondary Authors