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Cursed Blessings
Cursed Blessings explores the relationship between sexual nonconformity and religious radical dissent in the early modern Western European world. While many studies have been devoted to the process of the "hereticalization" of nonnormative sexual practices and its use in anti-heretical propaganda, this book is entirely devoted to understanding the meaning of unconventional sexual behaviors from the perspective of the dissenters. Divided into three parts, the first focuses on the Italian peninsula and explores alternative views on sexuality inspired by Renaissance currents of anti-clericalism, ancient Christian heresies, traditions of apocrypha of the New Testament, and Rabbinic literature. I...
The Oxford History of Poetry in English
The Oxford History of Poetry in English (OHOPE) is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. OHOPE both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. By taking as its purview the full seventeenth century, 1603-1700, this volume re-draws the existing lit...
The Oxford History of Poetry in English
Beginning with the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I and ending late in the seventeenth century, this volume traces the growth of the literary marketplace, the development of poetic genres, and the participation of different writers in a century of poetic continuity, change, and transformation.
Involving Readers
This volume explores how and by whom early modern Dutch Bibles were used. Through a detailed analysis of paratextual features and readers’ traces in over 180 surviving Bible copies, Renske Hoff displays how individuals manifested their faith in owning, reading, and personalising the Bible, in a period characterised by religious turmoil. From nuns and countesses to tailors and merchants: Bibles were read by a diverse public. Printer-publishers shaped the contents and paratextual features of their Bible editions to suit the varied wishes of the reading public. Readers themselves added marginalia, corrected the text, or pasted texts and images in their books, displaying their creativity as users as well as stressing the malleability of the material Bible.
Music, Medicine and Religion at the Ospedale Di Santo Spirito in Rome
Explores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital''s institutional, social and historical contexts, undergoing change in response to broader cultural and religious movements.This book explores connections between the physical care of the sick based on the study of medicine, concepts of healing founded on religious thought, and the practice of music at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito (Hospital of the Holy Spirit) in Rome. The hospital was a unique institution that was regulated by the Roman Catholic Church but simultaneously reflected the significant shifts in scientific thought emerging during the period that coincided with post-Tridentine reforms in the church.The...
Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy
The chapters in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in Italy across the long sixteenth century, considering an era when music-making was both a subject of Italian painting and a central metaphor in treatises on the arts. Beginning in the fifteenth century, transformations emerge in the depiction of music within visual arts, the conceptualization of music in ethics and poetics, and in the practice of musical harmony. This book brings together contributors from across musicology and art history to consider the trajectories of these changes and the connections between them, both in theory and in the practices of everyday life. In sixteen chapters, the contributors blend i...
Publishing for the Popes
In this book Paolo Sachet provides a detailed account of the attempts made by the Roman Curia to exploit printing in the mid-sixteenth century, after the Reformation but before the implementation of the ecclesiastical censorship. Conventional wisdom holds that Protestant exploitation of printing was astute, active and forward-looking, whereas the papacy was inept, passive and reactionary in dealing with the relatively new medium of communication. Publishing for the Popes aims to provide an impartial assessment of this assumption. By focusing on the editorial projects undertaken by members of the Roman Curia between 1527 and 1555, Sachet examines the Catholic Church’s attitude towards printing, exploring its biases and tactics. See inside the book.
L'Arétin et la Bible
En moins d'un an, de juin 1534 à mai 1535, entre Réforme et Contre-Réforme, Pierre l'Arétin publie à Venise La Passion de Jésus, Les Sept Psaumes de la pénitence de David et L'Humanité du Christ. L'idée érasmienne de la divulgation du message évangélique dans le respect de sa simplicité, déjà approuvée par les premières traductions bibliques d'Antonio Brucioli, justifie l'Arétin dans sa réécriture en prose italienne de textes de la Bible. Fondant cette oeuvre sur les thèmes de la Passion rédemptrice du Christ et de l'infinie miséricorde divine, il s'emploie à perpétuer une doctrine de conciliation de la grâce et du méri...
The English Bible in the Early Modern World
The English Bible in the Early Modern World addresses the most significant book available in the English language in the centuries after the Reformation, and investigates its impact on popular religion and reading practices, and on theology, religious controversy and intellectual history between 1530 and 1700. Individual chapters discuss the responses of both clergy and laity to the sacred text, with particular emphasis on the range of settings in which the Bible was encountered and the variety of responses prompted by engagement with the Scriptures. Particular attention is given to debates around the text and interpretation of the Bible, to an emerging Protestant understanding of Scripture and to challenges it faced over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
La Cazzaria
Nella Cazzaria, dialogo cinquecentesco del senese Antonio Vignali, gli organi sessuali, chiamati qui coi loro nomi, sono protagonisti di una vicenda che scaturisce da una fantasia di inesauribile creatività. Si dà conto della loro origine e di tutte le interazioni che li riguardano. Nella seconda parte del dialogo le tre specie coinvolte (“cazzi”, “potte” e “culi”) diventano attori di una lotta per il potere che maschera gli avvenimenti senesi degli anni Venti del Cinquecento. Opera nei secoli censuratissima per la materia oscena, per la celebrazione della sodomia, per la satira antireligiosa e antifratesca, è di fatto una parodia non solo del dialogo platonico (protagonisti l’Arsiccio, maestro, e il Sodo, allievo) ma di tutta la cultura umanistica, con la riduzione della centralità dell’uomo nel creato a quella degli organi che concorrono alla sua generazione.
