TY  - BOOK
AU  - Overell,M.Anne
TI  - Nicodemites: faith and concealment between Italy and Tudor England 
T2  - St. Andrews studies in Reformation history
SN  - 9004331662
AV  - BX4818.3 .O94 2019
U1  - 280/.4 23
KW  - Nicodemus
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Relations
KW  - Protestant churches
KW  - fast
KW  - Nicodemites
KW  - Religious tolerance
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - England
KW  - Interfaith relations
KW  - Early works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -