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Right Thinking and Sacred Oratory in Counter-Reformation Rome
Frederick J. McGinness
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Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 352 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLC1; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
At the end of the sixteenth century, when painters, writers, and scientists from all over Europe flocked to Rome for creative inspiration, the city was also becoming the center of a vibrant and assertive Roman Catholic culture. Closely identified with Rome, the Counter-Reformation church sought to strengthen itself by building on Rome's symbolic value and broadcasting its cultural message loudly and skillfully to the European world. In a book that captures the texture and flavor of this rhetorical strategy, Frederick McGinness explores the new emphasis placed on preaching by Roman church leaders. Looking at the development of a sacred oratory ... Read more
At the end of the sixteenth century, when painters, writers, and scientists from all over Europe flocked to Rome for creative inspiration, the city was also becoming the center of a vibrant and assertive Roman Catholic culture. Closely identified with Rome, the Counter-Reformation church sought to strengthen itself by building on Rome's symbolic value and broadcasting its cultural message loudly and skillfully to the European world. In a book that captures the texture and flavor of this rhetorical strategy, Frederick McGinness explores the new emphasis placed on preaching by Roman church leaders. Looking at the development of a sacred oratory ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691635194
SKU
V9780691635194
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Reviews for Right Thinking and Sacred Oratory in Counter-Reformation Rome
Winner of the 1997 Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Catholic Historical Association "This is a valuable book. Its prolific notes offers a rich texture of detail. Its seven chapters approach roughly the same subject matter from different angles, so that some readers may wish for a more chronological or more analytic approach, but given the complexity of the subject the ... Read more