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- English
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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 is a profoundly important contribution to Renaissance and Reformation studies. Martin offers a vivid re-creation of the social and cultural worlds of the Venetian heretics—those men and women who articulated their hopes for religious and political reform and whose ideologies ranged from evangelical to anabaptist and even millenarian positions. In exploring the connections between religious beliefs and social experience, he weaves a rich tapestry of Renaissance urban life that is sure to intrigue all those involved in anthropological, religious, and historical studies—students and scholars alike.
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 conn
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION Salvation and Society in Sixteenth-Century Venice
- CHAPTER ONE A Republic Between Renaissance and Reform
- CHAPTER TWO The Coming of the Inquisition
- CHAPTER THREE Evangelism and the Emergence of Popular Reform
- CHAPTER FOUR The Humanity of Christ and the Hope for the Messiah
- CHAPTER FIVE Hiding
- CHAPTER SIX The Place of Heresy in a Hierarchical Society
- CHAPTER SEVEN The Turn of the Screw
- CHAPTER EIGHT 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
- <INDEX>General Index
- <INDEX>Index of Secondary Authors