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Reform before the Reformation : Vincenzo Querini and the religious Renaissance in Italy

Title: Reform before the Reformation : Vincenzo Querini and the religious Renaissance in Italy / by Stephen D. Bowd.
Author: Bowd, Stephen D.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

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Description

xvi, 267 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"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 Florence and Rome - as viewed through the unpublished manuscripts of a Venetian nobleman who became a Camaldolese hermit: Vincenzo Querini (1478-1514).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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in medieval and Reformation thought ; v. 87

Uniform Title

Studies in medieval and Reformation thought ; v. 87.

Subject

Genre/Form

Church history
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-253) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Catholic reform and the Reformation -- Reform before the Reformation -- Vincenzo Querini and the church in Renaissance Italy -- Chapter One : The contemplative in action -- The Italian wars -- Humanist studies -- Political duties -- Chapter Two : Personal reform : How to be a Renaissance hermit -- Nobles and monks -- Action and contemplation -- The naked Christ -- Salvation in the city -- Chapter three : Monastic reform -- Wayward monks and wandering hermits -- The hermits and the world -- Chapter four : Reform by council -- The challenge of the Schismatic council -- Papal authority and reform -- Conclusion -- Chapter five : Reform by the word and by the sword -- The fifth Lateran concil (1512-17) -- Reform by the word -- Reform by the sword -- Humanism and scriptural studies -- Chapter six : Prophecy and reform -- Prophets and hermits -- Hidden and forbidden knowledge -- Hermits and prophecy -- Chapter seven : Catholicism and reform -- The death of Querini -- Venice and the Spirituali -- Italian cathoilc reformers -- Conclusion.

ISBN

9004123792
9789004123793

LCCN

2001052460
99807261894

OCLC

ocm48144436
48144436
SCSB-1241144

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library