Reading the Reformations

Theologies, Cultures and Beliefs in an Age of Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52123-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

In the last thirty years, understandings of the European reformations have been transformed. A generation of scholars has demonstrated how radically wide-ranging these movements were. Across family life, politics, material culture and philosophy, the reformations are now at the very heart of our understanding not just of early modern Europe, but of religion and identity in general.

This volume collects recent work from past and present members of the European Reformation Research Group, exploring key fronts in contemporary Reformation Studies, achieving a broad view of how historiography has developed in recent decades – and where it seems set to go next.

Autoren/Hrsg.

French, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Foreword: ERRG At Thirty

Andrew Pettegree

Introduction: Reading the Reformations

Anna French

Part I: Reading the Instructive

1: ‘Teaching the Simple’: Religious Education in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Ruth Atherton

2: ‘A godly forme of household’: Reading Reformed Religion in the Protestant Home’

Anna French

3: Divine Kingship, Royal Supremacy, and Romans 13 (1526-36)

Steven M. Foster

Part II: Reading the Communal

4: Reforming France: The Protestant Political Assemblies during the First War of Religion

David Nicoll

5: The Reformed Kirk and the Local Community: The Evidence of Perth’s Kirk Session

Helen Gair

6: Reading: The Reformation

Joe Chick

Part III: Reading the Material

7: ‘If these walls could talk’: Inscriptions, Patronage and the Material Culture of Worship

Andrew Spicer

8: Reading and not Reading the Material Evidence in Parish Churches

Susan Orlik

9. Surviving a Public Obsession: Reading The Female Body in Post-Reformation Legislation and Medicine

Heather Cowan

Part IV: Reading the Long Reformation

10: ‘The common practices of an imperfect world’: The Apparent Paradox of Cardinal Francesco Piccolomini’s Thoughts and Deeds

Susan May

11: Reading, Writing and Publishing Supernatural Narratives in England’s Long Reformation

Laura Sangha

12: Two Ways to Read the Bible in the Long Reformation

Alec Ryrie

Afterword: The European Reformation Research Group Looking Forward

Elizabeth Tingle

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Anna French, Ph.D. (2009, University of Birmingham) is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Liverpool. She has published a number of works, including Children of Wrath (Ashgate 2015/Routledge 2016) and Early Modern Childhood (Routledge, 2019).