Bibliograph

Religious authority in the Spanish Renaissance, Lu Ann Homza

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Religious authority in the Spanish Renaissance, Lu Ann Homza

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Religious authority in the Spanish Renaissance

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Lu Ann Homza

Series statement

Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, 118th ser., 1

Summary

This in-depth study of religious tensions in early modern Spain offers a new and enlightening perspective on the era of the Inquisition. Traditionally, the Spanish Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries has been framed as an epic battle of opposites. The followers of Erasmus were in constant discord with conservative Catholics while the humanists were diametrically opposed to the scholastics. Historian Lu Ann Homza rejects this simplistic view. In Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance, she presents a subtler paradigm, recovering the profound nuances in Spanish intellectual and religious history. Through analyses of Inquisition trials, biblical translations, treatises on witchcraft and tracts on the episcopate and penance, Homza illuminates the intellectual autonomy and energy of Spain's ecclesiastics

Target audience

adult

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