Forbidden prayer : church censorship and devotional literature in Renaissance Italy / Giorgio Caravale.

• Part I Interior Devotion, Lutheranism and Ecclesiastical Censorship In the First Half of the 16th Century: The Pater noster from Savonarola to Seripando; Mental prayer and the spiritual; Serafinoda Fermo and Lorenzo Davidico; Pier Paolo Vergerio's antiDevotional polemics.; Part II Superstition Prayer and Mystic Prayer: Ecclesiastic Censorship from the Index of Paul IV to the Clementine One: Toward renewed inwardness; Mental prayer and Catholic orthodoxy; Censorship and self-Censorship In the 80s; From heresy to liturgy.; Part III Toward the Failure of the Struggle against Superstition: the Clementine Index In its First Years of Application: The making of liturgical uniformity: mere wishful thinking; A fight against superstition or a struggle against the illiterates?; First signs of surrender; Roberto Bellarmino and Tomasso Campanella: an unexpected encounter; Bibliography; Index of names.

• This book delineates the attempt, carried out by the Congregations of the Inquisition and the Index during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, to purge various Devotional texts In the Italian vernacular of heterodox beliefs and superstitious elements, while imposing a rigid uniformity In liturgical and Devotional practices. The first part of the book is focused on Rome's anxious activity toward the infiltration of Protestant ideas In vernacular treatises on prayer meant for mass consumption. It next explores how, only In the second half of the sixteenth century, once Rome's main preoccupation toward Protestant expansion had subsided, the Church could begin thinking about a move from a rejection of any consideration of the merits of interior prayer to a recovery and acceptance of mental prayer. The final section is dedicated to the primary objective of the Church's actions In purging superstitious practices which was not simply the renewal of the spiritual life of the faithful, but also the control of the religious and social life of many faithful who were uneducated. Based on a careful examination of the archival records of the two Roman dicasteri In question, many of which have only been accessible to scholars since 1998, as well as a close reading of the many of suspect Devotional texts themselves, this book offers a fascinating contribution towards a fuller appreciation of the complex landscape that characterized the spiritual realities of early modern Italy. 

Ämnesord

Uppbyggelselitteratur  (sao)

Censur  (sao)

Kristendom  (sao)

Kyrkohistoria  (sao)

Renässansen  (sao)

Censur  -- religiösa aspekter -- historia (sao)

Inkvisitionen  -- Italien (sao)

Uppbyggelselitteratur  -- utgivning (sao)

Church history  (LCSH)

Christian literature  (LCSH)

Devotional literature  (LCSH)

Censorship  (LCSH)

Christianity  (LCSH)

Renaissance  (LCSH)

Italien  (sao)

Klassifikation

BR115.C38 (LCC)

242.8024509031 (DDC)

242/.8024509031 (DDC)

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