Nicodemites : faith and concealment between Italy and Tudor England /
Overell, M. Anne,
Nicodemites : faith and concealment between Italy and Tudor England / by M. Anne Overell. - xii, 280 pages ; 25 cm. - St. Andrews studies in Reformation history . - St. Andrews studies in Reformation history. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index.
In Nicodemites: Faith and Concealment Between Italy and Tudor England, Anne Overell examines a rarely glimpsed aspect of sixteenth-century religious strife: the thinkers, clerics and rulers who concealed their faith. This work goes beyond recent scholarly interest in conformity to probe inward dilemmas and the spiritual and cultural meanings of pretence. Among the dissimulators who appear here are Cardinal Reginald Pole and his circle in Italy and in England, and also John Cheke and William Cecil. Although Protestant and Catholic polemicists condemned all Nicodemites, most of them survived reformation violence, while their habits of silence and secrecy became influential. This study concludes that widespread evasion about religious belief contributed to the erratic development of toleration.
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Nicodemus (Biblical figure)
Nicodemus (Biblical figure)
Catholic Church--Relations--Protestant churches.
Catholic Church.
Nicodemites.
Protestant churches--Relations--Catholic Church.
Religious tolerance--History--Italy--16th century.
Religious tolerance--History--England--16th century.
Protestant churches.
Interfaith relations.
Nicodemites.
Early works.
BX4818.3 / .O94 2019
280/.4
Nicodemites : faith and concealment between Italy and Tudor England / by M. Anne Overell. - xii, 280 pages ; 25 cm. - St. Andrews studies in Reformation history . - St. Andrews studies in Reformation history. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index.
In Nicodemites: Faith and Concealment Between Italy and Tudor England, Anne Overell examines a rarely glimpsed aspect of sixteenth-century religious strife: the thinkers, clerics and rulers who concealed their faith. This work goes beyond recent scholarly interest in conformity to probe inward dilemmas and the spiritual and cultural meanings of pretence. Among the dissimulators who appear here are Cardinal Reginald Pole and his circle in Italy and in England, and also John Cheke and William Cecil. Although Protestant and Catholic polemicists condemned all Nicodemites, most of them survived reformation violence, while their habits of silence and secrecy became influential. This study concludes that widespread evasion about religious belief contributed to the erratic development of toleration.
9004331662 9789004331662
2018960027
Nicodemus (Biblical figure)
Nicodemus (Biblical figure)
Catholic Church--Relations--Protestant churches.
Catholic Church.
Nicodemites.
Protestant churches--Relations--Catholic Church.
Religious tolerance--History--Italy--16th century.
Religious tolerance--History--England--16th century.
Protestant churches.
Interfaith relations.
Nicodemites.
Early works.
BX4818.3 / .O94 2019
280/.4