Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521661720)

This book covers one of the most controversial subjects in Italian historiography, namely the success or failure of the Church's policy during the counter-Reformation to exert rigorous control not only over theology but over all branches of knowledge. By drawing extensively upon newly-opened sources in the archive of the former Congregation of the Holy Office, generally known as the "Inquisition", it affords a more articulated and objective assessment of the effects of ecclesiastical censorship on religion and culture in early modern Italy.

Author: Gigliola Fragnito
ISBN-10: 0521661722
ISBN-13: 9780521661720
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2001
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d