How the Church in the Renaissance tried to reform itself

This volume takes the Renaissance papacy as an institution promoting an ambivalent and complex project of religious reform, where the ideal of the affirmation of a new political power, nourished by classical cultural models, coexists in dialectic tension with the attempt to absorb and channel the diverse claims for the spiritual renewal of the Church, based on Biblical and apocalyptic motifs. In particular, this volume explores the influence of texts and motifs from ancient Christianity on the ideological and theological-political projects of the Catholic Church between 14311549 as well as the rise of the so-called Catholic orientalism in Renaissance Rome, the study of Hebrew texts, and Christian Kabbalah. Contributions by A. Annese, L. Battista, G. Bartolucci, F. Berno, D. Del Prete, A. Gerace, N. Kouremenos, V. Lauria, and T. Leinonen.

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Andrea Annese is Associate Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Bologna. Ludovico Battista is Assistant Professor in History of Christianity at the SARAS Department of the University of Rome La Sapienza.Antonio Gerace is an Early Modern Church historian, affiliated to KU Leuven.Andrea Annese is Associate Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Bologna. Ludovico Battista is Assistant Professor in History of Christianity at the SARAS Department of the University of Rome La Sapienza.Antonio Gerace is an Early Modern Church historian, affiliated to KU Leuven.Herman J. Selderhuis ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Theologischen Universität Apeldoorn, Direktor von Refo500, Wissenschaftlicher Kurator der Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek sowie Präsident des Internationalen Calvinkongresses.Dr. Christopher B. Brown is Associate Professor of Church History at Boston University.Dr. Günter Frank ist Direktor der Europäischen Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten und außerplanmäßiger Professor am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer ist Professorin em. für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Universität Bern.Tarald Rasmussen ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Universität Oslo.Dr. Violet Soen is Associate Professor for Early Modern History at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Leuven.Dr. Zsombor Tóth is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Literary Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.Dr. Günther Wassilowsky ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.Prof. Dr. Siegrid Westphal ist Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Osnabrück sowie Direktorin des Forschungszentrums Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit.