Some Italian Vernacular Religious Books, their Authors and their Readers, 1543–8
What might count as elite religion and popular religion within the restricted sphere of literate culture? The answer here is in terms of the production and reception of religious texts. Who wrote them and who read them, and with what kinds of assumptions and attitudes? Here I discuss the following q...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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Studies in church history
Year: 2006, Volume: 42, Pages: 197-205 |
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| Summary: | What might count as elite religion and popular religion within the restricted sphere of literate culture? The answer here is in terms of the production and reception of religious texts. Who wrote them and who read them, and with what kinds of assumptions and attitudes? Here I discuss the following questions: do the categories ‘elite’ and ‘popular’ divide up the field without remainder? Are ‘elite’ and ‘popular’ necessarily at odds? If ‘elite’ and ‘popular’ are not necessarily at odds, are they sometimes so? |
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| ISSN: | 2059-0644 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0424208400003958 |
