Heresy, Culture, and Religion in Early Modern Italy: Contexts and Contestations

by John Jeffries Martin and Michelle M. Fontaine

Leading scholars from Italy and the United States offer a fresh and nuanced image of the religious reform movements on the Italian peninsula in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. United in their conviction that religious ideas can only be fully understood in relation to the particular social, cultural, and political contexts in which they develop, these scholars explore a wide range of protagonists from popes, bishops, and inquisitors to humanists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931112584
• ISBN13: 9781931112581
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"