1st Edition
Reforms of Christian Life in Sixteenth-Century Italy
By Querciolo Mazzonis
Copyright 2022
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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Reforms of Christian Life presents a new narrative of the role of the Barnabites and Angelics, the Ursulines and the Somascans (founded in Northern Italy in the 1530s by Battista da Crema, Angela Merici, and Girolamo Miani) within sixteenth-century Italian reform movements.
While historiography has considered these companies under the category of ‘Catholic Reformation,’ this book argues... Read more
1. The Rise of the Companies, their Founders and their Spiritual Context 2. The Founders’ Concept of Christian Life 3. The Perception of the Church 4. The Companies and the Italian Reformist Circles 5. The Companies in the Late Sixteenth Century
Biography
Querciolo Mazzonis teaches History of Christianity at the University of Teramo. He researches on religious history in the Italian Renaissance from a cultural and gender perspective. Publications include a monograph on Angela Merici (2007), essays on devout women and Battista da Crema (2020).
