Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
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 S. 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 ...
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 ...