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Forbidden Prayer

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Forbidden Prayer book

Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy

Forbidden Prayer

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Forbidden Prayer book

Church Censorship and Devotional Literature in Renaissance Italy
ByGiorgio Caravale
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 22 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582719
Pages 308 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315582719
SubjectsHumanities
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Caravale, G. (2012). Forbidden Prayer. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582719

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

PART I: Inner Devotion, Lutheranism, and Church Censorship in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century

chapter 1|24 pages

The Pater Noster from Savonarola to Seripando

chapter 2|16 pages

Mental Prayer and the Spirituali

chapter 3|11 pages

Serafino da Fermo and Lorenzo Davidico

chapter 4|14 pages

Pier Paolo Vergerio and the Antidevotional Controversy

part |2 pages

PART II: Superstitious Prayer and Mystic Prayer: Church Censorship from the Index of Paul IV to that of Clementine

chapter 5|19 pages

Towards Renewed Inwardness

chapter 6|8 pages

Mental Prayer and Catholic Orthodoxy

chapter 7|50 pages

Censorship and Self-Censorship in the 1580s

chapter 8|16 pages

From Heresy to Liturgy

part |2 pages

PART III: Toward the Failure of the Struggle against Superstition: The Clementine Index in its First Years of Application

chapter 9|26 pages

The Making of Liturgic Uniformity: Mere Wishful Thinking?

chapter 10|34 pages

A Fight against Superstition or a Struggle against the Illiterates?

chapter 11|20 pages

First Signs of Surrender

chapter 12|16 pages

Roberto Bellarmino and Tommaso Campanella: An Unexpected Encounter

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