Converting and disciplining

Massimo Cattaneo

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-126-0

Converting and disciplining: the Roman Church and popular religiosity in the modern age

Authors

Massimo Cattaneo

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6450-3665

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-126-0

Keywords:

Roman Inquisition, History of Christianity 16th-19th centuries, Gender History, Social history of the 18th century, Rome in the Modern Age

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 186

Language: italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-28272

Abstract: Converting and disciplining, these are the two key words of the book.

Starting with the Lutheran Reformation, the Church of Rome realised the need both to defend itself against its enemies, old and new, external and internal, and to 'Christianise' its own faithful, to put in order the numerous contradictions that existed between doctrinal prescriptions and the concrete religious experience of the faithful. The instruments used were many, from confraternities to missionaries, inquisitors, the rediscovery of the first martyrs and the catacombs. What emerges, from the many sources used in the text, is an unruly Christianity, often unaware even of basic dogmas.

Through various case studies, the reader is presented with a religious history of the modern age, and in particular of the 18th century, used as a passepartout to understand the changes in popular mentality at a time when the Church was gradually forced to redesign its role in society.

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Author Biography

Massimo Cattaneo, University of Naples Federico II

Massimo Cattaneo is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Naples Federico II. He has conducted research in political, social and religious history from a history of mentalities perspective. He is a member of the editorial boards of Passato e Presente and Giornale di Storia. His publications include: La sponda sbagliata del Tevere. Mito e realtà di un'identità popolare tra antico regime e rivoluzione (Napoli 2004); Atlante storico dell'Italia rivoluzionaria e napoleonica (École Française de Rome 2013, with M.P. Donato, D. Armando, J.F. Chauvard).