1st Edition
Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous religious change in Italy as in Europe as a whole, a period when movements for both reform and counter-reform reflected and affected shifting religious sensibilities. Cinquecento culture was profoundly shaped by these religious currents, from the reform poetry of the 1530s and early 1540s, to the efforts of Tridentine theologians later in the... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Abigail Brundin and Matthew Treherne; Swarming with hermits: religious friendship in Renaissance Italy, 1490-1540, Stephen Bowd; Manuscript collections of spiritual poetry in 16th-century Italy, Antonio Corsaro; Literary production in the Florentine academy under the first Medici dukes: reform, censorship, conformity, Abigail Brundin; Pontormo's lost frescoes in San Lorenzo, Florence: a reappraisal of their religious content, Chrysa Damianaki; Defining genres: the survival of mythological painting in counter-Reformation Venice, Tom Nichols; The representation of suffering and religious change in the early cinquecento, Harald Hendrix; Aretino, Titian and 'La Humanità di Cristo', Raymond B. Waddington; Varieties of experience: music and reform in Renaissance Italy, Iain Fenlon; Church reform and devotional music in 16th-century Rome: the influence of lay confraternities, Noel O'Regan; Liturgy as a mode of theological discourse in Tasso's late works, Matthew Treherne; Index.
Biography
Abigail Brundin is based at the University of Cambridge, UK and Matthew Treherne at the University of Leeds, UK.
’The strength of this book is its disengagement from periodization, choosing not to endorse a single point of view from which to analyze Italy’s volatile religious climate... The Result is a volume that conveys the full richness and complexity of sixteenth-century religious culture in Italy.’ Renaissance Quarterly 'The series [Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700] has some remarkable contributions, and the coeditors of this volume have produced another. ... The essays collected here fit nicely with the other works in this Ashgate series, books that indeed are humanizing our understanding of religious expression in the early modern world.' Sixteenth Century Journal
