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Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia
Patterns of Localization
Av Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2132 kr
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Over recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in early modern Catholic missions in Asia as laboratories of cultural contact. This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions, which has shown that missionaries in Asia cooperated with and …
Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh
Al-Damanhuri’s "Clear Statement" on Anatomy
Av Ahmed Ragab
Inbunden, 2019
2510 kr
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In 1768, Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī became the rector (shaykh) of al-Azhar, which was one of the most authoritative and respected positions in the Ottoman Empire. He occupied this position until his death. Despite being a prolific author, whose writings are largely extant, al-Damanhūrī remains almost …
Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh
Al-Damanhuri’s "Clear Statement" on Anatomy
Av Ahmed Ragab
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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In 1768, Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī became the rector (shaykh) of al-Azhar, which was one of the most authoritative and respected positions in the Ottoman Empire. He occupied this position until his death. Despite being a prolific author, whose writings are largely extant, al-Damanhūrī remains almost …
Missionary Strategies in the New World, 1610-1690
An Intellectual History
Häftad, 2019
706 kr
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The study is an intellectual and comparative history of French, Spanish, and English missions to the native peoples of America in the seventeenth century, c. 1610–1690. It shows that missions are ideal case studies to properly understand the relationship between religion and politics in early …
Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 2019
706 kr
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conversion took on a new importance within the Catholic world, as its leaders faced the challenge of expanding the church's reach to new peoples and continents while at the same time reinforcing its authority in the Old World. Based on new archival …
Food and Religious Identities in Spain, 1400-1600
Häftad, 2019
735 kr
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In the late fourteenth century, the Iberian Peninsula was home to three major religions which coexisted in relative peace. Over the next two centuries, various political and social factors changed the face of Iberia dramatically. This book examines this period of dynamic change in Iberian history …
John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse
Preaching, Prophecy and Politics
Häftad, 2019
706 kr
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John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British Civil War and Interregnum. Using Owen’s sermons from this period as a window into the mind of a …
Food and Religious Identities in Spain, 1400-1600
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
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In the late fourteenth century, the Iberian Peninsula was home to three major religions which coexisted in relative peace. Over the next two centuries, various political and social factors changed the face of Iberia dramatically. This book examines this period of dynamic change in Iberian history …
Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia
Patterns of Localization
Av Nadine Amsler, Andreea Badea m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
706 kr
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Over recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in early modern Catholic missions in Asia as laboratories of cultural contact. This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions, which has shown that missionaries in Asia cooperated with and …
Calvinism, Reform and the Absolutist State in Elizabethan Ireland
Häftad, 2017
822 kr
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Despite the best efforts of the English government, Elizabethan Ireland remained resolutely Catholic. Hutchinson examines this ‘failure’ of the Protestant Reformation. He argues that the emerging political concept of the absolutist state forms a crucial link between English policy in Ireland and …
Indulgences after Luther
Pardons in Counter-Reformation France, 1520–1720
Häftad, 2017
891 kr
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Indulgences have been synonymous with corruption in the Catholic Church ever since Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the church door in Wittenberg in 1517. Tingle explores the nature and evolution of indulgences in the Counter Reformation and how they were used as a powerful tool of …
Renaissance Ethics of Music
Singing, Contemplation and Musica Humana
Av Hyun-Ah Kim
Häftad, 2017
727 kr
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In early modern Europe, music – particularly singing – was the arena where body and soul came together, embodied in the notion of musica humana. Kim uses this concept to examine the framework within which music and song were used to promote moral education and addresses Renaissance ideas of …
John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse
Preaching, Prophecy and Politics
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
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John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British Civil War and Interregnum. Using Owen’s sermons from this period as a window into the mind of a …
Exile and Religious Identity, 1500–1800
Av Gary K Waite, Jesse Spohnholz m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
846 kr
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Exile was a central feature of society throughout the early modern world. For this reason the contributors to this volume see exile as a critical framework for analysing and understanding society at this time.
Female Piety and the Catholic Reformation in France
Häftad, 2018
822 kr
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This book offers a new perspective on how female piety evolved in the decades after the devot generation had pioneered the Catholic Reformation in France. It presents female devotional culture as generational and something which ought to be understood as a response to changing spiritual currents.
Images of Islam, 1453–1600
Turks in Germany and Central Europe
Häftad, 2018
831 kr
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This book explores sixteenth-century German attitudes during a time of social, political and religious upheaval. It focuses on how medieval and fifteenth-century images of Islam, Saracens and the early Ottoman Empire evolved in incunabula print and images within Christian Europe.
Religious Space in Reformation England
Contesting the Past
Häftad, 2016
822 kr
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The dissolution of the monasteries in England during the 1530s began a turbulent period of religious restructuring. Focusing on the counties of Wiltshire and Cheshire, Guinn-Chipman looks at the changing nature of religion over the next two centuries.
Laudians and the Elizabethan Church
History, Conformity and Religious Identity in Post-Reformation England
Av Calvin Lane
Häftad, 2016
822 kr
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Notions of religious conformity in England were redefined during the mid-seventeenth century; for many it was as though the previous century's reformation was being reversed. Lane considers how a select group of churchmen – the Laudians – reshaped the meaning of church conformity during a period of …
Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture, 1450-1730
Häftad, 2016
822 kr
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Before the mid-fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects. Stiefel presents a study of the material culture and religious architecture that this era produced.
John Bale and Religious Conversion in Reformation England
Av Oliver Wort
Häftad, 2016
924 kr
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Focusing on the life and work of the evangelical reformer John Bale (1485–1563), Wort presents a study of conversion in the sixteenth century.
Religious Culture of Marian England
Av David Loades
Häftad, 2016
822 kr
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Loades explores England's religious cultures during the reign of Mary Tudor. He investigates how conflicting traditions of conformity and dissent negotiated the new spiritual, political and legal landscape which followed her reintroduction of Catholicism to England.
Celestial Wonders in Reformation Germany
Av Ken Kurihara
Häftad, 2016
822 kr
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Celestial phenomena were often harnessed for use by clerics in early modern Germany. Kurihara examines how and why interest in these events grew in this period, how the clergy exploited these beliefs and the role of sectarianism in Germany at this time.
Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe
Strategies of Exile
Av Timothy G Fehler, Timothy G. Fehler m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
822 kr
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This collection of essays looks at the shared experience of exile across different groups in the early modern period. Contributors argue that exile is a useful analytical tool in the study of a wide variety of peoples previously examined in isolation.
Priestly Resistance to the Early Reformation in Germany
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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Moger’s study explores the personal experience of those who found themselves on the ‘losing side’ of the Reformation. Using the private diary of Catholic priest, Wolfgang Königstein, Moger discusses the early years of Protestantism and its effects on the lives of German Catholics.
Sacred History and National Identity
Comparisons Between Early Modern Wales and Brittany
Av Jason Nice
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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The late sixteenth century saw a redrawing of the borders of north-west Europe. Wales and Brittany entered into unions with neighboring countries England and France. This book uses Brittany and Wales' responses to unification to describe a comparative history of national identity during the early …
Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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Presents an exmination of printed representations of monstrous births in German-speaking Europe from the end of the fifteenth century and through the sixteenth century, beginning with a seminal series of broadsheets from the late 1490s by humanist Sebastian Brant, and including prints by Albrecht …
Possession, Puritanism and Print
Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy
Häftad, 2016
951 kr
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Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, this book highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period …
Visions of an Unseen World
Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England
Häftad, 2016
945 kr
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A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to …
Angels and Belief in England, 1480–1700
Av Laura Sangha
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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This study looks at the way the Church utilized the belief in angels to enforce new and evolving doctrine.Angels were used by clergymen of all denominations to support their particular dogma. Sangha examines these various stances and applies the role of angel-belief further, to issues of wider …
Anglo-German Relations and the Protestant Cause
Elizabethan Foreign Policy and Pan-Protestantism
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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Challenging accepted notions of Elizabethan foreign policy, Gehring argues that the Queen’s relationship with the Protestant Princes of the Holy Roman Empire was more of a success than has been previously thought. Based on extensive archival research, he contends that the enthusiastic and …
