Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
Priestly Resistance to the Early Reformation in Germany
1st Edition
By Jourden Travis Moger
January 20, 2016
Moger’s study explores the personal experience of those who found themselves on the ‘losing side’ of the Reformation. Using the private diary of Catholic priest, Wolfgang Königstein, Moger discusses the early years of Protestantism and its effects on the lives of German Catholics....
Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe: Strategies of Exile
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy G. Fehler, Greta Grace Kroeker, Charles H. Parker, Jonathan Ray
January 20, 2016
This collection of essays looks at the shared experience of exile across different groups in the early modern period. Contributors argue that exile is a useful analytical tool in the study of a wide variety of peoples previously examined in isolation....
Religious Space in Reformation England: Contesting the Past
1st Edition
By Susan Guinn-Chipman
January 20, 2016
The dissolution of the monasteries in England during the 1530s began a turbulent period of religious restructuring. Focusing on the counties of Wiltshire and Cheshire, Guinn-Chipman looks at the changing nature of religion over the next two centuries....
Sacred History and National Identity: Comparisons Between Early Modern Wales and Brittany
1st Edition
By Jason Nice
January 20, 2016
The late sixteenth century saw a redrawing of the borders of north-west Europe. Wales and Brittany entered into unions with neighboring countries England and France. This book uses Brittany and Wales' responses to unification to describe a comparative history of national identity during the early ...
The Laudians and the Elizabethan Church: History, Conformity and Religious Identity in Post-Reformation England
1st Edition
By Calvin Lane
January 20, 2016
Notions of religious conformity in England were redefined during the mid-seventeenth century; for many it was as though the previous century's reformation was being reversed. Lane considers how a select group of churchmen – the Laudians – reshaped the meaning of church conformity during a period of...
The Religious Culture of Marian England
1st Edition
By David Loades
January 20, 2016
Loades explores England's religious cultures during the reign of Mary Tudor. He investigates how conflicting traditions of conformity and dissent negotiated the new spiritual, political and legal landscape which followed her reintroduction of Catholicism to England....
Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England
1st Edition
By Sasha Handley
January 20, 2016
A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to ...
Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World 1-10
1st Edition
By Various Authors
June 01, 2014
Contains the first ten volumes in the Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World series: 1. Possession, Puritanism and Print 2. Visions of an Unseen World 3. Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560–1750 4. Sacred History and National Identity 5. Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century ...