Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe: Introduction
Part 1 The Bible in the European History: a Constant Exposition and an Essential Reference
Chapter 1 Fides ex auditu: Hearing and Reading the Bible
Chapter 2 Under the Sign of Jonah: the Bible in Early Modern Europe
Chapter 3 Some Irreligious Uses of the Bible in the Early Modern Period
Part 2 To Read or Not to Read the Bible: Instructions and Prohibitions about Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe
Chapter 4 The Debate Surrounding Lay Bible Reading in Spain in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 5 Lay Debates about the Sacrality of the Bible in Sixteenth-Century Geneva
Chapter 6 The Bible and the Early Modern Catholic Tradition: from Rome to the Margins of Europe
Part 3 Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe: a Plurality of Books, Uses, and Interpretations
Chapter 7 Reading the Gospels in the Life and Passion of Christ in French (ca. 1400–ca. 1550)
Chapter 8 For Early Modern Printed Biblical Literature in Italian: Lay Authorship and Readership
Chapter 9 Bible Production and Bible Readers in the Age of Confessionalisation: the Case of the Low Countries
Chapter 10 The Other Psalm Singing: Biblical Training in the Catholic Petites Écoles during the Late Renaissance
Part 4 Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe: the Formation of Social and Professional Identities
Chapter 11 Francisco Vallés’ De Sacra Philosophia: a Medical Reading of the Bible
Chapter 12 The Finger and the Tongue of God: Johannes Kepler, Reformation Theology, and the New Astronomy
Chapter 13 Women Interpreting Genesis in Early Modern Italy: Arguments Supporting Gender Equality
Part 5 Afterword
Chapter 14 Afterword: the Bible and the Laity in Long-Term Perspective
Index Nominum