Silvana Seidel Menchi – författare

Drawing on the extensive and underused body of legal records on marriage that exist in Europe’s ecclesiastical and secular archives, Marriage in Europe, 1400–1800 examines the institution not just as it was theorized by jurists and theologians, but as it was lived in reality.A comparative history that examines England, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Low Countries, and Sweden, this volume features the extensive and meticulous research of twelve leading international experts in the field. Their essays make use of material from thirty-one European archives, as well as a range of canons and decretals, poems, letters, novels, and treatises, to offer a history of marriage, both Catholic and Protestant. Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi, this collection is an essential resource for those interested in the history of marriage in Christian Europe.

Drawing on the extensive and underused body of legal records on marriage that exist in Europe’s ecclesiastical and secular archives, Marriage in Europe, 1400–1800 examines the institution not just as it was theorized by jurists and theologians, but as it was lived in reality.A comparative history that examines England, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Low Countries, and Sweden, this volume features the extensive and meticulous research of twelve leading international experts in the field. Their essays make use of material from thirty-one European archives, as well as a range of canons and decretals, poems, letters, novels, and treatises, to offer a history of marriage, both Catholic and Protestant. Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi, this collection is an essential resource for those interested in the history of marriage in Christian Europe.

Drawing on the extensive and underused body of legal records on marriage that exist in Europe’s ecclesiastical and secular archives, Marriage in Europe, 1400–1800 examines the institution not just as it was theorized by jurists and theologians, but as it was lived in reality.A comparative history that examines England, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Low Countries, and Sweden, this volume features the extensive and meticulous research of twelve leading international experts in the field. Their essays make use of material from thirty-one European archives, as well as a range of canons and decretals, poems, letters, novels, and treatises, to offer a history of marriage, both Catholic and Protestant. Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi, this collection is an essential resource for those interested in the history of marriage in Christian Europe.

1516 gab Erasmus von Rotterdam in Basel bei Johann Froben das Neue Testament heraus: die editio princeps des griechischen Textes, dazu eine revidierte lateinische Übersetzung sowie umfangreiche Anmerkungen. Diese Ausgabe sollte sich für die Wissenschafts- und Buchgeschichte als äußerst bedeutsam erweisen. Sie stellte einen Meilenstein der humanistischen Editionstätigkeit dar und legte die Grundlage für die Rezeption des biblischen Textes während der Reformation und Gegenreformation. Die Gestalt des griechischen Textes sollte auf Jahrhunderte hinaus maßgebend bleiben ( textus receptus). Mit seinen von Erasmus erweiterten und überarbeiteten Neuauflagen (1519, 1522, 1527 und 1535) wurde das Werk auch kommerziell zu einem einzigartigen Erfolg.Der vorliegende Band basiert auf einer Tagung, die anlässlich des bevorstehenden 500jährigen Jubiläums der Erstausgabe im September 2014 in Basel veranstaltet wurde.In 15 Beiträgen von international ausgewiesenen Spezialisten bietet der Band einen umfassenden Überblick über den neuesten Forschungsstand zu dieser epochalen Edition: Die philologische Vorgeschichte, der griechische Text und die Beigaben (Vorreden, Annotationes, Erasmus' lateinische Übersetzung) sowie Kommunikation und Rezeption des Werkes werden beleuchtet. Zugleich bietet der Band auch neue Einsichten über die Publizistik des Erasmus und die Geschichte des biblischen Textes."Der Band bietet neben zahlreichen detaillierten Forschungsbeiträgen, die in der weiteren Debatte nicht mehr übersehen werden können, den Nachweis einer intensiven und fruchtbaren interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit von Vertretern historisch arbeitender Disziplinen […]."Markus Wriedt in Theologische Literaturzeitung 141 (2016) 11, S. 1237-1239

Based primarily on Inquisition trial records from all parts of the Italian peninsula, this study vividly illustrates the broad diffusion of Erasmus's ideas in Italy. Silvana Seidel Menchi's protagonists are not the sophisticated intellectuals previously linked to the "e;prince of humanists,"e; but rather the shoemakers and druggists, goldsmiths and carpenters, weavers and soldiers, notaries and schoolmasters, priests and friars, physicians and students whose reading of Erasmus's works and acceptance of his message both enriched and complicated their lives. Italian Erasmians, like all Italian philo-Protestants, confronted an implacable adversary, the Roman Church and its Inquisition. Hence theirs was a destiny of marginalization and persecution.This innovative study makes a major contribution to our understanding of sixteenth-century Italian and European history in two important areas: the reception of Erasmus and the social dimensions of the Reformation.