Reform Before the Reformation: Vincenzo Querini and the Religious Renaissance in Italy

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-12379-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

An important aspect of the Italian Renaissance was church reform. This book examines the nature of that reform - especially in Venice, Florence and Rome - as viewed through the unpublished manuscripts of a Venetian nobleman who became a Camaldolese hermit: Vincenzo Querini (1478-1514). This book sets Querini's personal journey to reform in the context of Venetian society, as well as against the backdrop of political crisis, cultural revival, and monastic renaissance in Italy generally. Querini's attempt to reform himself, the Roman Catholic Church, and the whole of Christendom are of interest to historians seeking to revise the chronology of early modern church reform since he employed a range of scriptural, humanist, conciliar, monastic, and mystical methods that had medieval antecedents but were also imitated by reformers after the Reformation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowd, Stephen David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Contemplative in Action
2. Personal Reform: How to Be a Renaissance Hermit
3. Monastic Reform
4. Reform by Council
5. Reform by the Word and by the Sword
6. Prophecy and Reform
7. Catholicism and Reform

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen D. Bowd Ph.D. (1998) in History, University of Edinburgh, is Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published on humanism, prophecy, and church reform in Italy during the Renaissance.