Main description: Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region's violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism t…
There is broad historical awareness for Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Europe, and the ‘West’ as a whole, but given the persistent myths about the persona and work of this reformer, there is a need for a radical re-historicization of Luther and his rece…
Main description: The Early Modern Age (15th-18th cents) saw the appearance of a vast number of Latin plays. The papers collected in this volume analyse exemplars of individual dramas or complexes of dramas to provide insights into the fundamental structures of the genre, but al…