Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization
1st Edition
Edited
By Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea, Bernard Heyberger, Christian Windler
June 30, 2021
Over recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in early modern Catholic missions in Asia as laboratories of cultural contact. This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions, which has shown that missionaries in Asia cooperated with and ...
Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh: Al-Damanhuri’s "Clear Statement" on Anatomy
1st Edition
By Ahmed Ragab
December 18, 2020
In 1768, Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī became the rector (shaykh) of al-Azhar, which was one of the most authoritative and respected positions in the Ottoman Empire. He occupied this position until his death. Despite being a prolific author, whose writings are largely extant, al-Damanhūrī remains almost ...
Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Peter A. Mazur
December 12, 2019
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conversion took on a new importance within the Catholic world, as its leaders faced the challenge of expanding the church's reach to new peoples and continents while at the same time reinforcing its authority in the Old World. Based on new archival ...
Food and Religious Identities in Spain, 1400-1600
1st Edition
By Jillian Williams
December 12, 2019
In the late fourteenth century, the Iberian Peninsula was home to three major religions which coexisted in relative peace. Over the next two centuries, various political and social factors changed the face of Iberia dramatically. This book examines this period of dynamic change in Iberian history ...
John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse: Preaching, Prophecy and Politics
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By Martyn Calvin Cowan
December 12, 2019
John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British Civil War and Interregnum. Using Owen’s sermons from this period as a window into the mind of a ...
Missionary Strategies in the New World, 1610-1690: An Intellectual History
1st Edition
By Catherine Ballériaux
December 12, 2019
The study is an intellectual and comparative history of French, Spanish, and English missions to the native peoples of America in the seventeenth century, c. 1610–1690. It shows that missions are ideal case studies to properly understand the relationship between religion and politics in early ...
Exile and Religious Identity, 1500–1800
1st Edition
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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....
Images of Islam, 1453–1600: Turks in Germany and Central Europe
1st Edition
By Charlotte Colding Smith
February 13, 2018
This book explores sixteenth-century German attitudes during a time of social, political and religious upheaval. It focuses on how medieval and fifteenth-century images of Islam, Saracens and the early Ottoman Empire evolved in incunabula print and images within Christian Europe....
Female Piety and the Catholic Reformation in France
1st Edition
By Jennifer Hillman
February 06, 2018
This book offers a new perspective on how female piety evolved in the decades after the devot generation had pioneered the Catholic Reformation in France. It presents female devotional culture as generational and something which ought to be understood as a response to changing spiritual currents....
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
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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 ...