Venice's Hidden Enemies

by Martin, John Jeffries

• ISBN13: 9780520077430
• ISBN10: 0520077431
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr on Demand

Summary

How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result is a profoundly important contribution to Renaissance and Reformation studies. Martin offers a vivid re-creation of the social and cultural worlds of the Venetian heretics--those men and women who articulated their hopes for religious and political reform and whose ideologies ranged from evangelical to anabaptist and even millenarian positions. In exploring the connections between religious beliefs and social experience, he weaves a rich tapestry of Renaissance urban life that is sure to intrigue all those involved in anthropological, religious, and historical studies--students and scholars alike.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Salvation and Society in Sixteenth-Century Venice	p. 1
A Republic Between Renaissance and Reform	p. 23
The Coming of the Inquisition	p. 49
Evangelism and the Emergence of Popular Reform	p. 71
The Humanity of Christ and the Hope for the Messiah	p. 97
Hiding	p. 123
The Place of Heresy in a Hierarchical Society	p. 147
The Turn of the Screw	p. 179
Two Horsemen of the Apocalypse	p. 197
Epilogue: The Final Executions	p. 217
Appendix: A Note on the Quantitative Study of the Inquisition	p. 235
Sources and Bibliography: Heresy and Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy	p. 249
General Index	p. 273
Index of Secondary Authors	p. 283
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