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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מחבר ראשי: Martin, John Jeffries, 1951-
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
סדרה:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 16.
גישה מקוונת:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21282
תוכן הענינים:
  • 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