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  • This book weaves together a narrative of events in the South German principali... This book weaves together a narrative of events in the South German principality of the Upper Palatinate with an examination of the structural transformations within the religious culture from the early seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth.... more
  • In 1621 in one of the earliest campaigns of the Thirty Years War the South Ger... In 1621 in one of the earliest campaigns of the Thirty Years War the South German principality of the Upper Palatinate was invaded and annexed by Maximilian of Bavaria director of the Catholic League. In the subsequent years the eyes of Europe... 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
  • The relationship between music and religious identity in Augsburg on the eve o... The relationship between music and religious identity in Augsburg on the eve of the Thirty Years War is the focus for this book. How did Catholic and Protestant repertories diverge from one another? What was the impetus for this differentiation and... 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
  • Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies. High-l... Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies. High-level research has tended to be confined within specific geographical confessional or chronological boundaries. By bringing together scholars working on a wide variety of... 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
  • Reformation and the Practice of Toleration examines the remarkable religious t... Reformation and the Practice of Toleration examines the remarkable religious toleration that characterized Dutch society in the early modern era. It shows how this toleration originated how it functioned and how people of different faiths interacted... 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
  • In the last thirty years understandings of the European reformations have been... In the last thirty years understandings of the European reformations have been transformed. A generation of scholars has demonstrated how radically wide-ranging these movements were. Across family life politics material culture and philosophy the... more
  • More often than not debates around free speech in the early modern period had ... More often than not debates around free speech in the early modern period had to do with religious speech and expression. This interdisciplinary volume extends the discussion of free speech to look at the broader concept of free of expression in... more
  • This book examines the beliefs practices and arguments surrounding the ritual ... This book examines the beliefs practices and arguments surrounding the ritual of infant baptism and the raising of children in Geneva during the period of John Calvin s tenure as leader of the Reformed Church 1536-1564. It focuses particularly on... more
  • Sebastian MÃ1/4nster s Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that at... Sebastian MÃ1/4nster s Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography history ethnography zoology and botany. Through this... more
  • In The Reformation of Historical Thought Mark Lotito re-examines the developme... In The Reformation of Historical Thought Mark Lotito re-examines the development of Western historiography by concentrating on Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) and his universal history Carion s Chronicle (1532) which transformed the early modern... more
  • Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe edited by Ronald K. Rittgers a... Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe edited by Ronald K. Rittgers and Vincent Evener is a research handbook on the Protestant reception of mysticism from the beginnings of the Reformation through the mid-seventeenth century. more
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