LEADER 03706nam 2200685 a 450 001 996248285603316 005 20240416155042.0 010 $a0-674-07531-5 010 $a0-674-07529-3 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674075290 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039377 035 $a(EBL)3301249 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860708 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11438302 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860708 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10897394 035 $a(PQKB)10049515 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301249 035 $a(DE-B1597)209807 035 $a(OCoLC)831664346 035 $a(OCoLC)979742842 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674075290 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301249 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10678060 035 $a(dli)HEB32247 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000041 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039377 100 $a20120911d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe pulpit and the press in Reformation Italy /$fEmily Michelson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (272 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 1 $aI Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-07297-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWhere sermons mattered -- Mendicants -- Sermons and diocesan reform -- Treatises -- The generation after Trent -- Epilogue: sermons and their reception. 330 $aItalian preachers during the Reformation era found themselves in the trenches of a more desperate war than anything they had ever imagined. This war-the splintering of western Christendom into conflicting sects-was physically but also spiritually violent. In an era of tremendous religious convolution, fluidity, and danger, preachers of all kinds spoke from the pulpit daily, weekly, or seasonally to confront the hottest controversies of their time. Preachers also turned to the printing press in unprecedented numbers to spread their messages. Emily Michelson challenges the stereotype that Protestants succeeded in converting Catholics through superior preaching and printing. Catholic preachers were not simply reactionary and uncreative mouthpieces of a monolithic church. Rather, they deftly and imaginatively grappled with the question of how to preserve the orthodoxy of their flock and maintain the authority of the Roman church while also confronting new, undeniable lay demands for inclusion and participation. These sermons-almost unknown in English until now-tell a new story of the Reformation that credits preachers with keeping Italy Catholic when the region's religious future seemed uncertain, and with fashioning the post-Reformation Catholicism that thrived into the modern era. By deploying the pulpit, pen, and printing press, preachers in Italy created a new religious culture that would survive in an unprecedented atmosphere of competition and religious choice. 410 0$aI Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history. 606 $aReformation$zItaly 606 $aSermons$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSermons$zItaly 607 $aItaly$xChurch history 615 0$aReformation 615 0$aSermons$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSermons 676 $a274.506 700 $aMichelson$b Emily$0845971 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248285603316 996 $aThe pulpit and the press in Reformation Italy$91889384 997 $aUNISA