Reading the Reformations
Theologies, Cultures and Beliefs in an Age of Change
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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 reformations are now at the very heart of our understanding not just of early modern Europe, but of religion and identity in general.
This volume collects recent work from past and present members of the European Reformation Research Group, exploring key fronts in contemporary Reformation Studies, achieving a broad view of how historiography has developed in recent decades – and where it seems set to go next.
This volume collects recent work from past and present members of the European Reformation Research Group, exploring key fronts in contemporary Reformation Studies, achieving a broad view of how historiography has developed in recent decades – and where it seems set to go next.
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Anna French, Ph.D. (2009, University of Birmingham) is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Liverpool. She has published a number of works, including Children of Wrath (Ashgate 2015/Routledge 2016) and Early Modern Childhood (Routledge, 2019).
Foreword:
ERRG
at Thirty
Andrew Pettegree
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Reading the Reformations
Anna French
Part 1
Reading the Instructive
1 ‘Teaching the Simple’: Sacramental Education in Sixteenth Century Germany
Ruth Atherton
2 ‘A Godly Forme of Household’: Reading Reformed Religion in the Protestant Home
Anna French
3 Divine Kingship, Royal Supremacy, and Romans 13 (1526–36)
Steven M. Foster
Part 2
Reading the Communal
4 Reforming France: The Protestant Political Assemblies during the First War of Religion, 1562–1563
David Nicoll
5 The Reformed Kirk and the Local Community: The Evidence of Perth’s Kirk Session
Helen Gair
6 Reading: The Reformations
Joe Chick
Part 3
Reading the Material
7 Inscriptions, Text and the Material Culture of Worship in the Southern Netherlands, c.1566–1621
Andrew Spicer
8 Reading and Not Reading the Material Evidence in Parish Churches
Susan Orlik
9 Surviving a Public Obsession: Reading the Female Body in Post-reformation Legislation and Medicine
Heather Cowan
Part 4
Reading the Long Reformation
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‘The Common Practices of an Imperfect World’: The Apparent Paradox of Cardinal Francesco Piccolomini’s Thoughts and Deeds
Susan May
11 Making Public: Communicating Supernatural Belief in England’s Long Reformation
Laura Sangha
12 Two Ways to Read the Bible in the (Very) Long Reformation
Alec Ryrie
13 Afterword: The European Reformation Research Group Looking Forward
Elizabeth Tingle
Index
Andrew Pettegree
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Reading the Reformations
Anna French
Part 1
Reading the Instructive
1 ‘Teaching the Simple’: Sacramental Education in Sixteenth Century Germany
Ruth Atherton
2 ‘A Godly Forme of Household’: Reading Reformed Religion in the Protestant Home
Anna French
3 Divine Kingship, Royal Supremacy, and Romans 13 (1526–36)
Steven M. Foster
Part 2
Reading the Communal
4 Reforming France: The Protestant Political Assemblies during the First War of Religion, 1562–1563
David Nicoll
5 The Reformed Kirk and the Local Community: The Evidence of Perth’s Kirk Session
Helen Gair
6 Reading: The Reformations
Joe Chick
Part 3
Reading the Material
7 Inscriptions, Text and the Material Culture of Worship in the Southern Netherlands, c.1566–1621
Andrew Spicer
8 Reading and Not Reading the Material Evidence in Parish Churches
Susan Orlik
9 Surviving a Public Obsession: Reading the Female Body in Post-reformation Legislation and Medicine
Heather Cowan
Part 4
Reading the Long Reformation
Susan May
11 Making Public: Communicating Supernatural Belief in England’s Long Reformation
Laura Sangha
12 Two Ways to Read the Bible in the (Very) Long Reformation
Alec Ryrie
13 Afterword: The European Reformation Research Group Looking Forward
Elizabeth Tingle
Index
Scholarly readers third-year undergraduates. Keywords: Reformation studies, early modern history, European history, church history.