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).

“Among the many edited volumes that were published 2017 on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Reformation this volume stands out because of the variety of its source materials on the one hand and its clear thematic structure on the other. Accordingly, this volume makes an important contribution to the historical reappraisal of the Reformation and maps out paths of future research.” • Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung“…a valuable collection through and through.” • Historische Zeitschrift“As a group, the essays take up a variety of our predecessors and are carefully researched and argued.  There is not a weak link among them.” • German History“This is a wide-ranging collection which raises some challenging questions for historians about the reliability of earlier scholarship. Two key issues emerge: the danger of assuming a confessional clarity and separation in the early years of the Reformation (or even later) which did not actually come into being until later, and the need to check even accepted narratives of identity formation against archival material. The points are well made and the examples adduced are convincing evidence for this double need.” • The English Historical Review“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“Archeologies 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 CenturyMarjorie E. 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