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Right Thinking and Sacred Oratory in Counter-Reformation Rome /

At the end of the sixteenth century, when painters, writers, and scientists from all over Europe flocked to Rome for creative inspiration, the city was also becoming the center of a vibrant and assertive Roman Catholic culture. Closely identified with Rome, the Counter-Reformation church sought to s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McGinness, Frederick J., 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1995]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Roman Eloquence and Christian Virtue: A Paideia for Defenders of the Respublica Christiana
  • Chapter Two. "Vices and Virtues, Punishment and Glory": Homiletic Instructions, Sacred Rhetoric, and Zeal for the Word of God
  • Chapter Three. "And to Heare the Maner of the Italian Preacher. . ." Tridentine Rome and the Ambience of the Sacred Orator
  • Chapter Four. "To Penetrate into the Deep-Down Things . . Arcana Dei and the Majesty of the Papal Liturgy
  • Chapter Five. Right Thinking: Conformity, Militant Catholicism, and the Return to Discipline
  • Chapter Six. Like "A Sundial Set into a Rock": The Supreme Hierarch of the Church Militant
  • Chapter Seven. From Vices to Virtues, Punishment to Glory: Rome, Civitas Sancta
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. Liturgical Texts for the Feasts Celebrated by the Papal Court with a Latin Sermon
  • Appendix 2. List of Popes
  • Abbreviations Used in Notes
  • Notes
  • Bibliographical Essay
  • Index.