Archeologies of Confession

Carina L. Johnson is Professor of History at Pitzer College and serves as extended faculty at Claremont Graduate University. She specializes in the cultural history of the sixteenth-century Habsburg Empire, particularly in relation to the extra-European world. Her publications include Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans (2011). David M. Luebke is Professor of History at the University of Oregon and has specialized in the history of social protest movements in early modern Germany as well as the formation of religious denominations during and after the Protestant Reformation. His publications include Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia (2016) and, as co-editor, the Spektrum volumes Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (2012) and Mixed Matches: Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment (2014). Marjorie E. Plummer is Professor of History at Western Kentucky University. She researches the history of the impact of the early reform movement on family and gender roles and on the changing legal definitions of social norms and religious identity in Early Modern Germany. She is the author of From Priest's Whore to Pastor's Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation (2012). Jesse Spohnholz is Associate Professor of History at Washington State University. His research focuses on confessional coexistence, religious exile, gender, and memory of the Reformation in the early modern Netherlands and northwest Germany. His books include The Tactics of Toleration: A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars (2011) and The Convent of Wesel: The Event That Never Was and the Invention of Tradition (2017).

"This impressive collection of essays deals effectively with the question of confessional histories, offering a convincing evaluation of how the events of the Reformation were regarded and interpreted by contemporaries as well as later generations." * Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes University "Archaeologies of Confession comprises a fascinating series of original and stimulating essays. It will be invaluable for scholars of the Reformation and of German religious history more broadly." * Joachim Whaley, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Reformations Lost and FoundCarina L. JohnsonPART I: SILENCING PLURALITYChapter 1. Misremembering Hybridity: The Myth of GoldenstedtDavid M. LuebkeChapter 2. A Luther for Everyone: Irenicism and Orthodoxy at the German Reformation Anniversaries of 1817Stan LandryChapter 3. Challenging Plurality: Wilhelm Horning and the Histories of Alsatian LutheranismAnthony J. SteinhoffChapter 4. Confessional Histories of Women and the Reformation from the Eightteenth to the Twenty-First CenturyMerry Wiesner-HanksChapter 5. Catholics as Foreign Bodies: The County of Mark as a Protestant Territory in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prussian HistoriographyRalf-Peter FuchsPART II: RECOVERING PLURALITYChapter 6. A Catholic Genealogy of Protestant ReasonRichard SchaeferChapter 7. Fighting or Fostering Plurality? Ernst Salomon Cyprian as a Historian of Lutheranism in the Early Eighteenth CenturyAlexander SchunkaChapter 8. Heresy and the Protestant Enlightenment: Johann Lorenz von Mosheim's History of Michael ServetusMichael PrintyChapter 9. The Great Fire of 1711: Reconceptualizing the Jewish Ghetto and Jewish-Christian Relations in Early Modern Frankfurt am MainDean Phillip BellPART III: EXCAVATING HISTORIES OF RELIGIONChapter 10. The Early Roots of Confessional Memory. Martin Luther Burns the Papal Bull on 10 December 1520Natalie KrentzChapter 11. Early Modern German Historians Confront the Reformation's First ExecutionsRobert ChristmanChapter 12. Prison Tales: The Miraculous Escape of Stephen Agricola and the Creation of Lutheran Heroes during the Sixteenth CenturyBeth PlummerChapter 13. Invented Memories: The 'Convent of Wesel' and the Origins of German and Dutch CalvinismJesse SpohnholzPART IV: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTINGChapter 14. 'Our Misfortune': National Unity versus Religious Plurality in the Making of Modern GermanyThomas A. Brady, Jr.Index