Vernacular Bible Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: The "Catholic" Position Revisited
On the eve of the Council of Trent, there was no outright ban on vernacular Bible reading in the Catholic world, but only regionally diversified positions. In Germany, the Low Countries, Bohemia, Poland, and Italy, vernacular Bibles circulated and were widely read since the Middle Ages. Censorship m...
| Published in: | The catholic historical review |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Catholic University of America Press
2018
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| In: |
The catholic historical review
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Catholic church
/ Tridentinum (1545-1563 : Trient)
/ Bible
/ Vernacular language
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| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HA Bible KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KCC Councils KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Council of Trent (1545-1563)
B Vernacular Bible reading B Bible Versions B Medieval and early Modern Church History B Bible Reading B Censorship B Church History B Bible Translation |
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| Summary: | On the eve of the Council of Trent, there was no outright ban on vernacular Bible reading in the Catholic world, but only regionally diversified positions. In Germany, the Low Countries, Bohemia, Poland, and Italy, vernacular Bibles circulated and were widely read since the Middle Ages. Censorship measures, however, existed in England and Spain, where the official Church had to deal with what it considered erroneous \"Bible-based\" faith-systems. In France, it was the advent of l'évangélisme in the 1520s that gave cause to more restrictive measures. In all cases, however, the question should be asked to which degree such censorship measures were effective or whether the laity anyway continued to read their Bibles. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cat.2018.0001 |