
Censorship and Heresy in Revolutionary England and Counter-Reformation Rome
Story of a Dangerous Book
Giorgio Caravale(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 5. October 2017
Book
Hardback
XI, 233 pages
978-3-319-57438-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the secrets of the extraordinary editorial success of Jacobus Acontius'
Satan's Stratagems
, an important book that intrigued readers and outraged religious authorities across Europe. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work, first published in Basel in 1565, was a resounding success. For the next century it was republished dozens of times in different historical context, from France to Holland to England. The work sowed the idea that religious persecution and coercion are stratagems made up by the devil to destroy the kingdom of God. Acontius' work prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflicts. In Revolutionary England it was propagated by latitudinarians and independents, but also harshly censored by Presbyterians as a dangerous Socinian book. Giorgio Caravale casts new light on the reasons why both Catholics and Protestants welcomed this work as one of the most threatening attacks to their religious power. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of toleration, in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation across Europe.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12 farbige Abbildungen
XI, 233 p. 12 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
438 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-57438-7 (9783319574387)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-57439-4
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Story of a Dangerous Book
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Story of a Dangerous Book
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Person
Giorgio Caravale is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Roma Tre, Italy. Previous publications include
Beyond the Inquisition: Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the
Origins of the Counter-Reformation
(2017),
Preaching and Inquisition in Renaissance Italy: Words
on Trial
(2016),
The Italian Reformation Outside Italy: Francesco Pucci's Heresy in Sixteenth-
Century Europe
(2015) and
Forbidden Prayer: Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in
Renaissance Italy
(2011).
Content
Chapter I. Introduction.- Chapter II. Jacob Acontius from Trent to
Devil's Stratagems
(1565).- Chapter III. The Seventeenth-Century Fortunes of
Devil's Stratagems
: English Censure.- Chapter IV. Roman Censure.- Foreword to the Appendix.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Bibliography.- Index.