In recent years the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and th...In recent years the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of critical importance in understanding the social and cultural impact of the Reformation. The associated...more
In recent years the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and th...In recent years the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of critical importance in understanding the social and cultural impact of the Reformation. The associated...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
Protestants and Mysticism inReformationEurope 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
Representing a new approach to an important subject this volume of essays wide...Representing a new approach to an important subject this volume of essays widens the understanding and interpretation of authority in debates on the Protestant Reformation. Based upon original and recent research each essay builds with careful...more
The problem of authority was not an invention of the Protestant Reformation bu...The problem of authority was not an invention of the Protestant Reformation but as the essays contained in this volume demonstrate its discussion in ever greater complexity was one of the ramifications (if not causes) of the deepening divisions...more
Traditional historiography has always viewed Calvin s Geneva as the benchmark ...Traditional historiography has always viewed Calvin s Geneva as the benchmark against which all other Reformed communities must inevitably be measured judging those communities who did not follow Geneva s institutional and doctrinal example as...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
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
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
Moderation inReformationEurope was in short supply. Yet numerous individuals...Moderation in Reformation Europe was in short supply. Yet numerous individuals and regimes found themselves forced into positions of moderation as they were caught in the crossfire of confessional debate. Presenting individual case studies and...more
Reformationand 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
Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformationstudies. 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
Numerous historical studies use the term community to express or comment on so...Numerous historical studies use the term community to express or comment on social relationships within geographic religious political social or literary settings yet this volume is the first systematic attempt to collect together important examples...more