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Reviews / ERSY 29 ( 2009 ) 103 – 143 141 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/027628509X12548459642308 Daniel A. Crews , Twilight of the Renaissance: The Life of Juan de Valdés (To- ronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008 ). 320 pp. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8020 - 9867 - 2 . After years of industrious detective work in Spanish archives, Daniel Crews presents here an alternative paradigm on Juan de Valdés (d. 1541 ), whom historians generally portray as a religious reformer whose social circles and vernacular writings helped spur the cause of the spirituali in Italy. Born in La Mancha to a large, ambitious family of converso ancestry, Valdés witnessed his father combat the nobility and entered the University of Alcalá in perhaps its most dynamic decade, in 1526 . As a young man, he associated with religious figures in Castile who practiced alumbradismo , a set of spiritual preferences that favored private communication with God, neglected Christocentrism and the sacraments, and spurned priestly intermediaries. After Valdés’s Dialogue on Christian Doctrine appeared in 1529 —the only work he published in his lifetime—the Spanish Inquisition investigated its orthodoxy, which caused him to flee to Rome.
Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2009
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