Nicodemites

Faith and Concealment between Italy and Tudor England

AvM. Anne Overell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

2 245 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

In Nicodemites: Faith and Concealment Between Italy and Tudor England, Anne Overell examines a rarely glimpsed aspect of sixteenth-century religious strife: the thinkers, clerics, and rulers, who concealed their faith. This work goes beyond recent scholarly interest in conformity to probe inward dilemmas and the spiritual and cultural meanings of pretence. Among the dissimulators who appear here are Cardinal Reginald Pole and his circle in Italy and in England, and also John Cheke and William Cecil. Although Protestant and Catholic polemicists condemned all Nicodemites, most of them survived reformation violence, while their habits of silence and secrecy became influential. This study concludes that widespread evasion about religious belief contributed to the erratic development of toleration."Anne Overell is an accomplished practitioner of history as a sideways glance, revealing subtleties and contours that others have missed. In doing so, she enriches the story of the Reformation and helps us see its humanity and nuance more vividly and completely." - Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-25
Mått:155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:603 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004331662

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

Anne Overell is Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University UK. She has published extensively on sixteenth-century religious reform, especially in her Italian Reform and English Reformations, and also on the many Nicodemites who sought safety by concealing their faith.

Recensioner i media

“Anne Overell has masterfully deepened and expanded the meaning of “nicodemite” […]. Overell’s painstaking research, much of which is anchored in manuscript sources, including correspondence, casts new light on Reformation-era nicodemism.”Carlos Eire, Yale University. In: British Catholic History, Vol. 34, No. 4 (October 2019), pp. 662–666.“Overell presents a complex and sympathetic picture of the motives behind religious prevarication that moves beyond a simple fear of physical abuse.”Robert Ingoglia, St. Thomas Aquinas College. In: Choice, March 2019.“Overell's book is an outstanding achievement that will reward its readers.”Susan Wabuda, Fordham University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 659–662.

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue 1Part 1Lives1 The Landscape of ‘Holy Cunning’2 A Nursery of Nicodemism: The Circle of Reginald Pole in Italy3 Pole’s Nicodemite Piety? Viterbo to England4 The Volte-Faces of Pietro Vanni5 Nicodemite’s Progress: Edward CourtenayPart 2Texts6 The Confusions of Il Beneficio di Cristo7 The Case against Nicodemites8 Exploiting Francesco Spiera in Italy and in England9 Counsel for Nicodemite Sinners: Vermigli, Curione and Cheke10 Radical Texts for the Queen of Nicodemites11 Mixed Messages in Elizabethan England12 EchoesBibliographyIndex