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8%OFFEmily Michelson - The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy - 9780674072978 - V9780674072978
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The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy

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Description for The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy Hardback. Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region's violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HRCC7; HRCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.

Italian 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
Condition
New
Weight
557g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674072978
SKU
V9780674072978
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About Emily Michelson
Emily Michelson is a lecturer in History, University of St Andrews.

Reviews for The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy
Michelson’s rich book has the great merit of filling a rather surprising gap in the historiography. This void could be partly ascribed to the complexity of the subject and to the large number of sources, primary and secondary, that had to be consulted for such a work. The Pulpit and the Press is based on a vast number of sixteenth-century ... Read more

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