Venice and the Radical Reformation : : Italian Anabaptism and Antitrinitarianism in European Context / / Riccarda Suitner.

• Superior document: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)
• VerfasserIn: Suitner, Riccarda,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Refo500 academic studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Acknowledgments
• List of illustrations
• Abbreviations
• 0. Introduction
• 0.1 The Venetian setting
• 0.2 Before Sozzini and the "Italian Heretics"
• 0.3 From Paduan medical milieux to pro-Judaism: the specificities of the Venetian Radical Reformation
• 0.4 The sources: a few preliminary observations
• 1. The landscape of dissent
• 1.1 Embracing the (Radical) Reformation in sixteenth-century Venice
• 1.1.1 The good citizen and the heterodox self
• 1.1.2 Becoming Anabaptist
• 1.1.3 Some figures
• 1.2 Places
• 1.2.1 The German Fondaco
• 1.2.2 Gardens, woods, universities, churches
• 1.2.3 Private houses
• 1.2.4 The collegia vicentina
• 1.2.5 Prisons
• 1.3 Punishing the Unknown
• 1.3.1 The danger of galleys
• 1.3.2 Rome and Venice: the two Inquisitions
• 1.3.3 From fine to death
• 1.3.4 Informers and inquisitors
• 1.3.5 The phantom defendants
• 1.4 The organisation of a new church
• 1.4.1 Points of reference: people and texts
• 1.4.2 A new lifestyle
• 1.4.3 The Carnival and its masks
• 1.4.4 The preparation of the council
• 2. In search of doctrinal uniformity
• 2.1 The meeting of 1550
• 2.1.1 The Venetian confessions of faith: Anabaptism and Antitrinitarianism
• 2.1.2 Winners and losers
• 2.1.3 The Inquisition's perspective: barriers and ambiguity
• 2.2 The Italian way
• 2.2.1 The classic revisited: adult baptism
• 2.2.2 Venice and Moravia
• 2.2.3 The Lord's Supper and the imitatio Christi
• 2.2.4 Sin and Hell
• 2.3 Italian Anabaptists: isolated minority or international Reformers?
• 2.3.1 The mobility factor
• 2.3.2 A community of brothers and sisters
• 3. Radical Reformers at the University of Padua
• 3.1 Students and teachers
• 3.1.1 Medical students at the Facultas artistarum.
• 3.1.2 Cadaver dissections and conversations about religion
• 3.1.3 The diaspora of Paduan physicians
• 3.2 The Soul, the blood, and the Trinity
• 3.2.1 A medical theory of Incarnation
• 3.2.2 Servet and Padua
• 3.2.3 Agostino Doni and Servet
• 3.2.4 Constantino Tessera's doctrine on the soul
• 3.3 The sleeping souls
• 3.3.1 A forgotten doctrine
• 3.3.2 Mortalism and materialism
• 3.3.3 A literal or metaphorical meaning?
• 3.3.4 The Fifth Lateran Council
• 3.3.5 Venice and its surroundings
• 3.3.6 European echoes
• 4. Entangled religions
• 4.1 Germany, the Iberian Peninsula, Naples: Judaism and the Radical Reformation outside Venice
• 4.1.1 Judaism and Anabaptism in the German-speaking territories
• 4.1.2 Servet and Judaism
• 4.1.3 Juan de Valdés and the Naples-Venice connection
• 4.2 Entangled religions in a Renaissance Republic
• 4.2.1 Jews, conversos, radical Reformers
• 4.2.2 The cloistered nuns of Udine and their Jewish-Antitrinitarian utopia
• 4.2.3 The fascination of the Kabbalah
• 4.2.4 The University of Padua as a contact zone between Jews and radical Reformers
• 4.3 Venice, Poland and Transylvania
• 4.3.1 Continuing the theme
• 4.3.2 The supremacy of the Old Testament
• 4.4 Antitrinitarianism and Islam: from Venice to the East
• 4.4.1 Venetian 'heresy' and Muslim erudition
• 4.4.2 Prisoners and translators
• 5. Epilogue
• 5.1 The defeat
• 5.2 The Venetian Radical Reformation, Socinianism, and the Enlightenment
• Bibliography
• Manuscript sources
• Printed sources
• Secondary literature
• Index.