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  • John Merbecke (c.1505-c.1585) is most famous as the composer of the first musi... John Merbecke (c.1505-c.1585) is most famous as the composer of the first musical setting of the English liturgy The Booke of Common Praier Noted (BCPN) published in 1550. Not only was Merbecke a pioneer in setting English prose to music but also... more
  • This book provides a new interpretation of John Merbecke (c.1505-c.1585) the T... This book provides a new interpretation of John Merbecke (c.1505-c.1585) the Tudor musician copyist and writer. Providing a new contextual study of Merbecke it re-interprets his work in the light of humanist rhetoric. It shows how Merbecke s 1550... more
  • Across early-modern Europe the confessional struggles of the Reformation touch... Across early-modern Europe the confessional struggles of the Reformation touched virtually every aspect of civic life; and nowhere was this more apparent than in the universities the seedbed of political and ecclesiastical society. Focussing on... more
  • This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Pro... This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds of grammar schools operating in England between the Reformation and the Enlightenment.... more
  • This book highlights the Athenian tribe whose members like John Cheke and Will... This book highlights the Athenian tribe whose members like John Cheke and William Cecil were essential to the shaping of mid-Tudor political life the English Church and intellectual culture. They left a lasting imprint on early modern England. more
  • By the late-sixteenth century Augsburg was one of the largest cities of the Ho... By the late-sixteenth century Augsburg was one of the largest cities of the Holy Roman Empire boasting an active musical life involving the contributions of musicians like Jacobus de Kerle Hans Leo Hassler and Gregor Aichinger. This musical culture... more
  • Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England breaks new ground i... Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England through a closely focused study of the relationship between the practice of religious music and the complex process of... more
  • This review brings together new research in three areas of Anabaptist studies ... This review brings together new research in three areas of Anabaptist studies and the Radical Reformation. Part One focuses on sixteenth-century Anabaptism re-examining the polygenesis model of Anabaptism articulated by Stayer Packull and Depperman.... more
  • In Riches and Reform Bess Rhodes explores the ruinous financial consequences o... In Riches and Reform Bess Rhodes explores the ruinous financial consequences of the Reformation in Scotland s ecclesiastical capital of St Andrews tracing how the religious changes of the sixteenth century triggered economic crisis and eventual... more
  • Across early-modern Europe the confessional struggles of the Reformation touch... Across early-modern Europe the confessional struggles of the Reformation touched virtually every aspect of civic life; and nowhere was this more apparent than in the universities the seedbed of political and ecclesiastical society. Focussing on... more
  • This volume is comprised of thirteen essays that explore penitential teachings... This volume is comprised of thirteen essays that explore penitential teachings and practices from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries in Western Europe and its colonies. Together the essays reveal that in this period penitence was... more
  • Between the religious massacres conflicts and martyrdoms that characterised mu... Between the religious massacres conflicts and martyrdoms that characterised much of Reformation Europe there seems little room for a consideration of the concept of moderation. Yet it was precisely because of this extremism that many Europeans both... more
  • Focusing on the territories of the Holy Roman Empire from the early Reformatio... Focusing on the territories of the Holy Roman Empire from the early Reformation to the mid-eighteenth century this volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays examines some of the structures practices and media of communication that helped shape the... more
  • Whilst much recent research has dealt with the popular response to the religio... Whilst much recent research has dealt with the popular response to the religious change ushered in during the mid-Tudor period this book focuses not just on the response to broad liturgical and doctrinal change but also looks at how theological and... more
  • Drawing primarily from Suffolk sources this book explores the development and ... Drawing primarily from Suffolk sources this book explores the development and place of Protestantism in early modern society defined as much in terms of its practice in local communities as in its more public pronouncements from those in authority.... more
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