Emily Michelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Michelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Michelson |
| SIGNATURE | MICHELSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7940-9954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge Companion to Counter-Reformation Sanctity
This groundbreaking Companion explores how Counter-Reformation sanctity reshaped religious identities, sacred traditions, and devotional practices that transformed Catholicism into the first global religion. Offering a fresh perspective on early modern Catholicism, it moves beyond traditional debates about Reformation and Reform and presents sanctity as the defining lens through which to view the period's transformative changes. By examining the …
Roamin' Holiday
This article analyses accounts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Anglophone travellers to Rome who encountered and described Catholic rituals of walking. These visitors observed Catholic rituals such as pilgrimages and processions so closely that they came to understand the act of walking and ways of walking as expressions of religious identity. They also used the language of walking to interpret such moments of encounter in their narratives.…
Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews
Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews
Starting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion. Harshly policed, they were made to march en masse toward the sermon and sit through it, all the while scrutinized by local Christians, foreign visitors, and potential converts. This book demonstrates how this display was vital to the development of early modern Catholicism. Drawing from a trove of overlooked manuscrip…
The Jews and the Reformation, by Kenneth Austin
A comprehensive discussion of Reformation attitudes towards Jews and Judaism is both timely and necessary. Fortunately, in Kenneth Austin’s hands, it is also masterly. His book provides a lucid, thorough and erudite introduction to almost every aspect of this subject. As Austin points out, Judaism has long been a shameful and embarrassing subject for Reformation historians of all denominations. Early modern treatment of Jews ranged from dismissiv…
A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome
A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome investigates the lives and stories of the many groups and individuals in Rome, between 1500 and approximately 1750, who were not Roman (Latin) Catholic. It shows how early modern Catholic people and institutions in Rome were directly influenced by their interactions with other religious traditions. This collection reveals the significant impact of Protestants, Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Rit…
Mampieri, Martina. Living under the Evil Pope
Mampieri, Martina. Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Nehemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th cent.). An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 44, Number 1, Winter 2021, pp. 9-324), on Érudit
Conversionary Preaching and the Jews in Early Modern Rome
This article examines how a seemingly universal category, the imaginary Jew, fared in a local setting – arguably the most compelling and high-stakes local setting in Europe: early modern Rome. In Rome – the caput mundi, city of the Holy See – the premier manufacturer of Judaic symbolism confronted Europe’s oldest continuous community Jewish community. Imagined Jews and living Jews in Rome were equally robust, equally impossible to ignore, and had…
Intellettuali in esilio
Massimo Rospocher, editor. Beyond the Public Sphere
This rich collection of fourteen widely ranging essays revisits the influential theory of public space proffered by Jürgen Habermas in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (1962; English trans. 1989). In that work, Habermas argued for the development of a public sphere as “a space of mediation between authority and the individual” (p. 11), fostered in the social institutions of the bo…
A Linking of Heaven and Earth
Michelson, Emily, Scott K. Taylor, and Mary Noll Venables (eds.). A Linking of Heaven and Earth: Studies in Religious and Cultural History in Honor of Carlos M. N. Eire. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Buchanan polygraphe. In Memoriam Ian D. McFarlane), on Érudit
Dramatics in (And Out Of) the Pulpit in Post-Tridentine Italy
Visual and physical aspects of the early modern sermon are its most elusive elements, yet they were critically important to early modern preachers, especially in the age of print. This essay surveys various factors that encouraged an increasing emphasis on gesture and performance in the pulpit in the early modern period, particularly religious reform, and asks what influence printed sermons had on oral preaching in Italy from the mid-sixteenth ce…
The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy
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 that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours.
Rituals of Prosecution
The Italian Inquisition – By Christopher F. Black
Il cardinale Giovanni Morone e l'ultima fase del concilio di Trento
Massimo Firpo and Ottavia Niccoli, eds. Il cardinale Giovanni Morone e l'ultima fase del concilio di Trento. Fondazione Bruno Kessler. Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento 80. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2010. 293 pp. index. illus. €23. ISBN: 978–88–15–13811–8. - Volume 64 Issue 1
Luigi Lippomano, His Vicars, and the Reform of Verona from the Pulpit
Luigi Lippomano was a deeply worried man. He had heard that Lutheran ideas were being debated openly in Verona-even in such inappropriate places as "the piazzas, the workshops, the taverns, and even the women's washrooms." As bishop of Verona, responsible for the city's spiritual health, he feared that he would see the city reduced to outright heresy. He felt increasingly stymied, watching his flock "become more corrupted every day" from inapprop…
From the Council of Trent to “Tridentinism”
This chapter describes the emergence of the system called “Tridentinism” following the Council of Trent. The Council incorporated, redefined, and updated the norms of the previous centuries to such an extent that it became preferable to view these norms through the lens of the Council's decrees. The body of Tridentine decrees increasingly edged all previous sources out of ecclesiastical use. Thus, it became obligatory to refer to Trent for soluti…
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From the Council of Trent to “Tridentinism”
This chapter describes the emergence of the system called “Tridentinism” following the Council of Trent. The Council incorporated, redefined, and updated the norms of the previous centuries to such an extent that it became preferable to view these norms through the lens of the Council's decrees. The body of Tridentine decrees increasingly edged all previous sources out of ecclesiastical use. Thus, it became obligatory to refer to Trent for soluti…
Luigi Lippomano, His Vicars, and the Reform of Verona from the Pulpit
Luigi Lippomano was a deeply worried man. He had heard that Lutheran ideas were being debated openly in Verona-even in such inappropriate places as "the piazzas, the workshops, the taverns, and even the women's washrooms." As bishop of Verona, responsible for the city's spiritual health, he feared that he would see the city reduced to outright heresy. He felt increasingly stymied, watching his flock "become more corrupted every day" from inapprop…
The Italian Inquisition – By Christopher F. Black
Il cardinale Giovanni Morone e l'ultima fase del concilio di Trento
Massimo Firpo and Ottavia Niccoli, eds. Il cardinale Giovanni Morone e l'ultima fase del concilio di Trento. Fondazione Bruno Kessler. Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento 80. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2010. 293 pp. index. illus. €23. ISBN: 978–88–15–13811–8. - Volume 64 Issue 1
The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy
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 that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours.
Rituals of Prosecution
Massimo Rospocher, editor. Beyond the Public Sphere
This rich collection of fourteen widely ranging essays revisits the influential theory of public space proffered by Jürgen Habermas in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (1962; English trans. 1989). In that work, Habermas argued for the development of a public sphere as “a space of mediation between authority and the individual” (p. 11), fostered in the social institutions of the bo…
A Linking of Heaven and Earth
Michelson, Emily, Scott K. Taylor, and Mary Noll Venables (eds.). A Linking of Heaven and Earth: Studies in Religious and Cultural History in Honor of Carlos M. N. Eire. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Buchanan polygraphe. In Memoriam Ian D. McFarlane), on Érudit
Dramatics in (And Out Of) the Pulpit in Post-Tridentine Italy
Visual and physical aspects of the early modern sermon are its most elusive elements, yet they were critically important to early modern preachers, especially in the age of print. This essay surveys various factors that encouraged an increasing emphasis on gesture and performance in the pulpit in the early modern period, particularly religious reform, and asks what influence printed sermons had on oral preaching in Italy from the mid-sixteenth ce…
Intellettuali in esilio
Conversionary Preaching and the Jews in Early Modern Rome
This article examines how a seemingly universal category, the imaginary Jew, fared in a local setting – arguably the most compelling and high-stakes local setting in Europe: early modern Rome. In Rome – the caput mundi, city of the Holy See – the premier manufacturer of Judaic symbolism confronted Europe’s oldest continuous community Jewish community. Imagined Jews and living Jews in Rome were equally robust, equally impossible to ignore, and had…
A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome
A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome investigates the lives and stories of the many groups and individuals in Rome, between 1500 and approximately 1750, who were not Roman (Latin) Catholic. It shows how early modern Catholic people and institutions in Rome were directly influenced by their interactions with other religious traditions. This collection reveals the significant impact of Protestants, Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Rit…
Mampieri, Martina. Living under the Evil Pope
Mampieri, Martina. Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Nehemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th cent.). An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 44, Number 1, Winter 2021, pp. 9-324), on Érudit
Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews
Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews
Starting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion. Harshly policed, they were made to march en masse toward the sermon and sit through it, all the while scrutinized by local Christians, foreign visitors, and potential converts. This book demonstrates how this display was vital to the development of early modern Catholicism. Drawing from a trove of overlooked manuscrip…
The Jews and the Reformation, by Kenneth Austin
A comprehensive discussion of Reformation attitudes towards Jews and Judaism is both timely and necessary. Fortunately, in Kenneth Austin’s hands, it is also masterly. His book provides a lucid, thorough and erudite introduction to almost every aspect of this subject. As Austin points out, Judaism has long been a shameful and embarrassing subject for Reformation historians of all denominations. Early modern treatment of Jews ranged from dismissiv…
Roamin' Holiday
This article analyses accounts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Anglophone travellers to Rome who encountered and described Catholic rituals of walking. These visitors observed Catholic rituals such as pilgrimages and processions so closely that they came to understand the act of walking and ways of walking as expressions of religious identity. They also used the language of walking to interpret such moments of encounter in their narratives.…
The Cambridge Companion to Counter-Reformation Sanctity
This groundbreaking Companion explores how Counter-Reformation sanctity reshaped religious identities, sacred traditions, and devotional practices that transformed Catholicism into the first global religion. Offering a fresh perspective on early modern Catholicism, it moves beyond traditional debates about Reformation and Reform and presents sanctity as the defining lens through which to view the period's transformative changes. By examining the …
History (15 works) · Art (11 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Classics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (6 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (5 works)