Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe

By Erminia Ardissino

The aim of this collection of essays is to bring together new comparative research studies on the place and role of the Bible in early modern Europe. It focuses on lay readings of the Bible, interrogating established historical, social, and confessional paradigms. It highlights the ongoing process of negotiation between the faithful congregation and ecclesiastical institutions, in both Protestant and Catholic countries. It shows how, even in the latter, where biblical translations were eventually forbidden, the laity drew upon the Bible as a source of ethical, cultural, and spiritual inspiration, contributing to the evolution of central aspects of modernity. Interpreting the Bible could indeed be a means of feeding critical perspectives and independent thought and behavior.

Contributors: Erminia Ardissino, Xavier Bisaro, lise Boillet, Gordon Campbell, Jean-Pierre Cavaill , Sabrina Corbellini, Fran ois Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, Max Engammare, Wim Fran ois, Ignacio J. Garc a Pinilla, Stefano Gattei, Margriet Hoogvliet, Tadhg hAnnrach in, and Concetta Pennuto.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004417427
• ISBN13: 9789004417427
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"