1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452721303321

Autore

Michelson Emily

Titolo

The pulpit and the press in Reformation Italy [[electronic resource] /] / Emily Michelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-674-07531-5

0-674-07529-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history

Disciplina

274.506

Soggetti

Reformation - Italy

Sermons - History and criticism

Sermons - Italy

Electronic books.

Italy Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Where sermons mattered -- Mendicants -- Sermons and diocesan reform -- Treatises -- The generation after Trent -- Epilogue: sermons and their reception.

Sommario/riassunto

Italian preachers during the Reformation era found themselves in the trenches of a more desperate war than anything they had ever imagined. This war-the splintering of western Christendom into conflicting sects-was physically but also spiritually violent. In an era of tremendous religious convolution, fluidity, and danger, preachers of all kinds spoke from the pulpit daily, weekly, or seasonally to confront the hottest controversies of their time. Preachers also turned to the printing press in unprecedented numbers to spread their messages. Emily Michelson challenges the stereotype that Protestants succeeded in converting Catholics through superior preaching and printing. Catholic preachers were not simply reactionary and uncreative mouthpieces of a monolithic church. Rather, they deftly and imaginatively grappled with the question of how to preserve the orthodoxy of their flock and maintain the authority of the Roman church while also confronting new, undeniable lay demands for



inclusion and participation. These sermons-almost unknown in English until now-tell a new story of the Reformation that credits preachers with keeping Italy Catholic when the region's religious future seemed uncertain, and with fashioning the post-Reformation Catholicism that thrived into the modern era. By deploying the pulpit, pen, and printing press, preachers in Italy created a new religious culture that would survive in an unprecedented atmosphere of competition and religious choice.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910506404103321

Autore

Maitrarat Penpisoot Kwan

Titolo

The History of Higher Education in Thailand : Confronting Challenges / / by Penpisoot Kwan Maitrarat, Roger Openshaw, Margaret Walshaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030790769

3030790762

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Excellence and Equity in Global Education, , 2947-5953

Disciplina

378.593

378.59309

Soggetti

Education, Higher

Education - History

International education

Comparative education

Higher Education

History of Education

International and Comparative Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The early historical context of higher education in Thailand -- Chapter 3: The People’s Revolution (1932) and its effects -- Chapter 4: Higher education following the first



two decades following World War -- Chapter 5: Unprecedented growth and the ‘October Movement’ -- Chapter 6: Exigencies in higher education following a local and a global financial recession -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the history of higher education in Thailand, and the ways in which excellence and equity have played out over time. Classed as a developing country, Thailand has implemented wide-reaching legislative and regulatory responses relating to the purpose, character of and access to higher education. The authors investigate these changes by interrogating the mechanisms and reciprocities that have operated at the international level to trigger this decision making, and acknowledge that these changes have often run up against long-standing cultural norms and ideologies. Thailand has a highly stratified society, and maintains a strong commitment to the preservation of Thai identity and traditional values: tensions and pressures are likely to arise when history, culture and ideology are not aligned with political decree. Importantly, the push and pull between equity and excellence within the education system are likely to lie at the heart of those tensions. .