The Michelson, Emily. creator text bibliography Electronic books. Church history. Criticism, interpretation, etc. mau Cambridge, Mass Harvard University Press ©2013 2013 monographic eng 1 online resource. Italian preachers during the Reformation era found themselves in the trenches of a more desperate war than anything they had ever imagined. This war--the splintering of western Christendom into conflicting sects--was physically but also spiritually violent. In an era of tremendous religious convolution, fluidity, and danger, preachers of all kinds spoke from the pulpit daily, weekly, or seasonally to confront the hottest controversies of their time. Preachers also turned to the printing press in unprecedented numbers to spread their messages. Emily Michelson challenges the stereotype that Protestants succeeded in converting Catholics through superior preaching and printing. Catholic preachers were not simply reactionary and uncreative mouthpieces of a monolithic church. Rather, they deftly and imaginatively grappled with the question of how to preserve the orthodoxy of their flock and maintain the authority of the Roman church while also confronting new, undeniable lay demands for inclusion and participation. These sermons--almost unknown in English until now--tell a new story of the Reformation that credits preachers with keeping Italy Catholic when the region's religious future seemed uncertain, and with fashioning the post-Reformation Catholicism that thrived into the modern era. By deploying the pulpit, pen, and printing press, preachers in Italy created a new religious culture that would survive in an unprecedented atmosphere of competition and religious choice. Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region's violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours. Where sermons mattered -- Mendicants -- Sermons and diocesan reform -- Treatises -- The generation after Trent -- Epilogue: sermons and their reception. Emily Michelson. Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. e-it--- Reformation Italy Sermons History and criticism Sermons Italy Italy Church history RELIGION Christianity History RELIGION Christianity Catholic Reformation Sermons Italy BR390 .M53 2013eb 274.506 Michelson, Emily. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2013 (DLC) 2012034735 (OCoLC)812067708 9780674075290 0674075293 22573/ctt2f17jt JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=520781 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=520781 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=520781 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=520781 N$T 130325 20200709055718.0 ocn831664346 eng