Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

"This volume is one of four in a larger series on cultural exchange in early modern Europe, but this one on its own is well worth reading, for well-informed general readers, graduate students, and scholars in the field." -Karin Maag, The Historian

• Part I. Introductions: 1. Religion and cultural exchange 1400–1700: 21st century implications William Monter; 2. Confessionalization and cultural exchange in early modern Europe (and the situation in the borderlands) Heinz Schilling and Istvan Tóth; Part II. Cohabitation and Conflict in the Religious Borderlands - Central (and North-east-central) Europe as Example): 3. Religious frontiers in the Bohemian lands after the White Mountain Olivier Chaline; 4. Religious coexistence and competition in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth c.1600 Daniel Tollet; 5. Missionaries as cultural intermediaries in religious borderlands Istvan Tóth; Part III. Churches in Action: Rituals and Images: 6. Introduction José Pedro Paiva; 7. Urban architecture and ritual in the Confessional Europe Heinz Schilling; 8. A liturgy of power: solemn episcopal entrances in Early Modern Europe José Pedro Paiva; 9. A comparative historiographic reflection on sovereignty in Modern Europe: interregnum rites and papal funerals Maria-Antonietta Visceglia; 10. Rural altarpieces and religious experiences in Transylvania's Saxon communities Maria Craciun; Part IV. Religious Communication: Print and Beyond: 11. Introduction Mark Greengrass and Judith Pollmann; 12. Orality, script and print: the case of the English sermon 1530–1700 Ian Green; 13. Teaching religion in Early Modern Europe: catechisms, emblems, and local traditions Stefan Ehrenpreis; 14. Chambers of rhetoric and the transmission of religious ideas in the low countries Guido Marnef; 15. Hey ho, let the cup go round! Singing for Reformation in the sixteenth century Judith Pollmann; 16. Two sixteenth-century religious minorities and their scribal networks Mark Greengrass; 17. On the side of the angels: Franciscan communication strategies in early modern Bohemia Martin Elbel.