Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
Exile and Religious Identity, 1500–1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Jesse Spohnholz, Gary K. Waite
February 26, 2018
Exile was a central feature of society throughout the early modern world. For this reason the contributors to this volume see exile as a critical framework for analysing and understanding society at this time....
Calvinism, Reform and the Absolutist State in Elizabethan Ireland
1st Edition
By Mark A Hutchinson
March 29, 2017
Despite the best efforts of the English government, Elizabethan Ireland remained resolutely Catholic. Hutchinson examines this ‘failure’ of the Protestant Reformation. He argues that the emerging political concept of the absolutist state forms a crucial link between English policy in Ireland and ...
Indulgences after Luther: Pardons in Counter-Reformation France, 1520–1720
1st Edition
By Elizabeth C Tingle
March 29, 2017
Indulgences have been synonymous with corruption in the Catholic Church ever since Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the church door in Wittenberg in 1517. Tingle explores the nature and evolution of indulgences in the Counter Reformation and how they were used as a powerful tool of ...
The Renaissance Ethics of Music: Singing, Contemplation and Musica Humana
1st Edition
By Hyun-Ah Kim
March 29, 2017
In early modern Europe, music – particularly singing – was the arena where body and soul came together, embodied in the notion of musica humana. Kim uses this concept to examine the framework within which music and song were used to promote moral education and addresses Renaissance ideas of ...
Angels and Belief in England, 1480–1700
1st Edition
By Laura Sangha
January 20, 2016
This study looks at the way the Church utilized the belief in angels to enforce new and evolving doctrine.Angels were used by clergymen of all denominations to support their particular dogma. Sangha examines these various stances and applies the role of angel-belief further, to issues of wider ...
Anglo-German Relations and the Protestant Cause: Elizabethan Foreign Policy and Pan-Protestantism
1st Edition
By David Gehring
January 20, 2016
Challenging accepted notions of Elizabethan foreign policy, Gehring argues that the Queen’s relationship with the Protestant Princes of the Holy Roman Empire was more of a success than has been previously thought. Based on extensive archival research, he contends that the enthusiastic and ...
Celestial Wonders in Reformation Germany
1st Edition
By Ken Kurihara
January 20, 2016
Celestial phenomena were often harnessed for use by clerics in early modern Germany. Kurihara examines how and why interest in these events grew in this period, how the clergy exploited these beliefs and the role of sectarianism in Germany at this time....
Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560–1750
1st Edition
By Andrew Redden
January 20, 2016
Uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the transcultural phenomenon of the devil in early modern Peru. This work demonstrates that the interaction between the Christian and the Andean worlds was far more complex than any interpretation that posits a clear dichotomy between conversion and ...
Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture, 1450–1730
1st Edition
By Barry L. Stiefel
January 20, 2016
Before the mid-fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects. Stiefel presents a study of the material culture and religious architecture that this era produced....
John Bale and Religious Conversion in Reformation England
1st Edition
By Oliver Wort
January 20, 2016
Focusing on the life and work of the evangelical reformer John Bale (1485–1563), Wort presents a study of conversion in the sixteenth century....
Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany
1st Edition
By Jennifer Spinks
January 20, 2016
Presents an exmination of printed representations of monstrous births in German-speaking Europe from the end of the fifteenth century and through the sixteenth century, beginning with a seminal series of broadsheets from the late 1490s by humanist Sebastian Brant, and including prints by Albrecht ...
Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy
1st Edition
By Marion Gibson
January 20, 2016
Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, this book highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period ...