Nicodemites

Anne Overell is Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University UK. She has published extensively on sixteenth-century religious reform, especially in her Italian Reform and English Reformations, and also on the many Nicodemites who sought safety by concealing their faith.

• Prologue 1Part 1Lives1 The Landscape of ‘Holy Cunning’2 A Nursery of Nicodemism: The Circle of Reginald Pole in Italy3 Pole’s Nicodemite Piety? Viterbo to England4 The Volte-Faces of Pietro Vanni5 Nicodemite’s Progress: Edward CourtenayPart 2Texts6 The Confusions of Il Beneficio di Cristo7 The Case against Nicodemites8 Exploiting Francesco Spiera in Italy and in England9 Counsel for Nicodemite Sinners: Vermigli, Curione and Cheke10 Radical Texts for the Queen of Nicodemites11 Mixed Messages in Elizabethan England12 EchoesBibliographyIndex

“Anne Overell has masterfully deepened and expanded the meaning of “nicodemite” […]. Overell’s painstaking research, much of which is anchored in manuscript sources, including correspondence, casts new light on Reformation-era nicodemism.”Carlos Eire, Yale University. In: British Catholic History, Vol. 34, No. 4 (October 2019), pp. 662–666.“Overell presents a complex and sympathetic picture of the motives behind religious prevarication that moves beyond a simple fear of physical abuse.”Robert Ingoglia, St. Thomas Aquinas College. In: Choice, March 2019.“Overell's book is an outstanding achievement that will reward its readers.”Susan Wabuda, Fordham University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 659–662.