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The aim of this collection of essays is to bring together new comparative research studies on the place and role of the Bible in early modern Europe. It focuses on lay readings of the Bible, interrogating established historical, social, and confessional paradigms. It highlights the ongoing process of negotiation between the faithful congregation and ecclesiastical institutions, in both Protestant and Catholic countries. It shows how, even in the latter, where biblical translations were eventually forbidden, the laity drew upon the Bible as a source of ethical, cultural, and spiritual inspiration, contributing to the evolution of central aspects of modernity. Interpreting the Bible could indeed be a means of feeding critical perspectives and independent thought and behavior.
Contributors: Erminia Ardissino, Xavier Bisaro, Élise Boillet, Gordon Campbell, Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, Sabrina Corbellini, François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, Max Engammare, Wim François, Ignacio J. García Pinilla, Stefano Gattei, Margriet Hoogvliet, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, and Concetta Pennuto.
Contributors: Erminia Ardissino, Xavier Bisaro, Élise Boillet, Gordon Campbell, Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, Sabrina Corbellini, François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, Max Engammare, Wim François, Ignacio J. García Pinilla, Stefano Gattei, Margriet Hoogvliet, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, and Concetta Pennuto.
Price: $148.00
Pages: 312
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Intersections
Publication Date:
09 January 2020
ISBN: 9789004417427
Format: Hardcover
“This fine collection of essays conveys different perspectives on the relationship of the laity to the Bible throughout the early modern period. […] Sprawling throughout this volume are a number of interconnected issues that make this collection especially useful as a guide to the ways the Bible connected people across Europe.”
Donald K. McKim, Germantown, Tennessee. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Fall 2021), pp. 1026–1028.
"La ricchezza e varietà di esame da casi singoli a riflessioni più generali rendono il volume molto interessante e promettente di altri sviluppi, grazie all’ottima scelta di temi e alla caratura degli studiosi invitati."
Michaela Valente, Roma, in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance LXXXIII.2, pp. 367-369
"The richness and variation of the research, from single cases to more general reflections, make this volume very interesting and promising for other developments, due to the excellent choice of themes and the caliber of the invited scholars."
Michaela Valente, Roma, in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance LXXXIII.2, pp. 367-369
Donald K. McKim, Germantown, Tennessee. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Fall 2021), pp. 1026–1028.
"La ricchezza e varietà di esame da casi singoli a riflessioni più generali rendono il volume molto interessante e promettente di altri sviluppi, grazie all’ottima scelta di temi e alla caratura degli studiosi invitati."
Michaela Valente, Roma, in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance LXXXIII.2, pp. 367-369
"The richness and variation of the research, from single cases to more general reflections, make this volume very interesting and promising for other developments, due to the excellent choice of themes and the caliber of the invited scholars."
Michaela Valente, Roma, in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance LXXXIII.2, pp. 367-369
Erminia Ardissino, Ph.D. (1993), Università di Torino, is professor of Italian Literature at that university. She has published several monographs and many articles and critical editions on Dante, Renaissance, and the Baroque age, including an essay on Galileo’s letters (2010).
Élise Boillet is a CNRS researcher at the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) of the University of Tours. Her field of research is Italian Renaissance biblical and religious culture and literature. She has published a monograph on Pietro Aretino’s biblical works and provided their critical edition.
Élise Boillet is a CNRS researcher at the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) of the University of Tours. Her field of research is Italian Renaissance biblical and religious culture and literature. She has published a monograph on Pietro Aretino’s biblical works and provided their critical edition.