Nicodemites

Faith and Concealment Between Italy and Tudor England
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-33166-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

In Nicodemites: Faith and Concealment Between Italy and Tudor England, Anne Overell examines a rarely glimpsed aspect of sixteenth-century religious strife: the thinkers, clerics, and rulers, who concealed their faith. This work goes beyond recent scholarly interest in conformity to probe inward dilemmas and the spiritual and cultural meanings of pretence. Among the dissimulators who appear here are Cardinal Reginald Pole and his circle in Italy and in England, and also John Cheke and William Cecil. Although Protestant and Catholic polemicists condemned all Nicodemites, most of them survived reformation violence, while their habits of silence and secrecy became influential. This study concludes that widespread evasion about religious belief contributed to the erratic development of toleration.

"Anne Overell is an accomplished practitioner of history as a sideways glance, revealing subtleties and contours that others have missed. In doing so, she enriches the story of the Reformation and helps us see its humanity and nuance more vividly and completely." - Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford

Autoren/Hrsg.

Overell, M Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue 1

Part 1

Lives

1 The Landscape of ‘Holy Cunning’

2 A Nursery of Nicodemism: The Circle of Reginald Pole in Italy

3 Pole’s Nicodemite Piety? Viterbo to England

4 The Volte-Faces of Pietro Vanni

5 Nicodemite’s Progress: Edward Courtenay

Part 2

Texts

6 The Confusions of Il Beneficio di Cristo

7 The Case against Nicodemites

8 Exploiting Francesco Spiera in Italy and in England

9 Counsel for Nicodemite Sinners: Vermigli, Curione and Cheke

10 Radical Texts for the Queen of Nicodemites

11 Mixed Messages in Elizabethan England

12 Echoes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Overell is Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University UK. She has published extensively on sixteenth-century religious reform, especially in her Italian Reform and English Reformations, and also on the many Nicodemites who sought safety by concealing their faith.