Table of Contents

Part I Inner Devotion, Lutheranism, and Church Censorship in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 1 The Pater Noster from Savonarola to Seripando; Chapter 2 Mental Prayer and the Spirituali; Chapter 3 Serafino da Fermo and Lorenzo Davidico; Chapter 4 Pier Paolo Vergerio and the Antidevotional Controversy; Part II Superstitious Prayer and Mystic Prayer; Chapter 5 Towards Renewed Inwardness; Chapter 6 Mental Prayer and Catholic Orthodoxy; Chapter 7 Censorship and Self-Censorship in the 1580s; Chapter 8 From Heresy to Liturgy; Part III Toward the Failure of the Struggle against Superstition; Chapter 9 The Making of Liturgic Uniformity; Chapter 10 A Fight against Superstition or a Struggle against the Illiterates?; Chapter 11 First Signs of Surrender; Chapter 12 Roberto Bellarmino and Tommaso Campanella;