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Forbidden Prayer - Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Forbidden Prayer - Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
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This book delineates the attempt, carried out by the Congregations
of the Inquisition and the Index during the sixteenth and early
seventeenth century, to purge various devotional texts in the
Italian vernacular of heterodox beliefs and superstitious elements,
while imposing a rigid uniformity in liturgical and devotional
practices. The first part of the book is focused on Rome's anxious
activity toward the infiltration of Protestant ideas in vernacular
treatises on prayer meant for mass consumption. It next explores
how, only in the second half of the sixteenth century, once Rome's
main preoccupation toward Protestant expansion had subsided, the
Church could begin thinking about a move from a rejection of any
consideration of the merits of interior prayer to a recovery and
acceptance of mental prayer. The final section is dedicated to the
primary objective of the Church's actions in purging superstitious
practices which was not simply the renewal of the spiritual life of
the faithful, but also the control of the religious and social life
of many faithful who were uneducated. Based on a careful
examination of the archival records of the two Roman dicasteri in
question, many of which have only been accessible to scholars since
1998, as well as a close reading of the many of suspect devotional
texts themselves, this book offers a fascinating contribution
towards a fuller appreciation of the complex landscape that
characterized the spiritual realities of early modern Italy.
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