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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, Élise Boillet, Gordon Campbell, Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, Sabrina Corbellini, François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, Max Engammare, Wim François, Ignacio J. García Pinilla, Stefano Gattei, Margriet Hoogvliet, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, and Concetta Pennuto.
A propos de l'auteur
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.
