Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe

This essay collection aims to bring together new comparative research studies on the place of the Bible in early modern Europe. It focuses on lay readings of the Bible, showing their central contribution to modernity, and interrogates established historical paradigms.

About the author

Erminia Ardissino, Ph.D. (1993), Università di Torino, is professor of Italian Literature at that university. She has published several monographs and many articles and critical editions on Dante, Renaissance, and the Baroque age, including an essay on Galileo's letters (2010).

Élise Boillet is a CNRS researcher at the Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) of the University of Tours. Her field of research is Italian Renaissance biblical and religious culture and literature. She has published a monograph on Pietro Aretino's biblical works and provided their critical edition.

Product details

• Assisted by: Erminia Ardissino (Editor), Élise Boillet (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2020
• EAN: 9789004417427
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41742-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918