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Art and Politics in Early Modern Germany: Jörg Breu the Elder and the Fashioning of Political Identity, ca. 1475-1536
Av Cuneo
Inbunden, 1998
2117 kr
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An exploration of the interaction between art and politics in early modern Germany, this work focuses on art, political in content, produced by the Augsburg artist Jörg Breu the Elder during the second and third decodes of the sixteenth century. The book argues for the function of the art as …
Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles (2 Vols.)
Av Sarah Blick
Inbunden, 2004
3600 kr
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This collection includes essays on the visual experience and material culture at medieval pilgrimage shrines of northern Europe and the British Isles, particularly the art and architecture created to intensify spiritual experience for visitors. These studies focus on regional pilgrimage centers …
Town, Country, and Regions in Reformation Germany
Av Tom Scott
Inbunden, 2005
2338 kr
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This collection of essays covers relations between town and country, regional economic systems, and historical regional studies in late medieval and early modern Germany, in particular how these bear upon social and religious change in the age of the Reformation. Starting from case-studies of …
Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches
Av Franz Posset
Inbunden, 2005
2101 kr
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This volume deals with the intellectual world of “progressive” Benedictine and Cistercian monks who vicariously represent humanists in cloisters (Klosterhumanismus, Bibelhumanismus) in German speaking lands: Conradus Leontorius (1460-1511), Maulbronn, Benedictus Chelidonius (c.1460-1521), Nuremberg …
Textual Healing: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
Inbunden, 2005
2163 kr
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This anthology explores often overlooked periods in medicine from medieval to early modern times, taking as a principal theme the need to return to familiar texts and sources for new interpretations. In twelve essays written by a diverse group of scholars, the collection covers topics such as …
Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands
Essays in Honour of Alastair Duke
Inbunden, 2006
2183 kr
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Was there such a thing as 'public opinion' before the age of newspapers and party politics? The essays in this collection show that in the Low Countries, at least, there certainly was. In this highly urbanised society, with high literacy rates and good connections, news and public debate could …
Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2007
2466 kr
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Recent witchcraft historiography, particularly where it concerns the gender of the witch-suspect, has been dominated by theories of social conflict in which ordinary people colluded in the persecution of the witch sect. The reconstruction of the Eichstätt persecutions (1590-1631) in this book shows …
White Magic, Black Magic in the European Renaissance
From Ficino, Pico, Della Porta to Trithemius, Agrippa, Bruno
Inbunden, 2007
2466 kr
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This book explores philosophical theories which in the Renaissance provided an interpretation of nature, of its laws and exceptions and, lastly, of man's capacity to dominate the cosmos by way of natural magic or by magical ceremonies. It does not concentrate on the Hermetic and Neoplatonic …
Vaterlandsliebe und Religionskonflikt: Politische Diskurse im Alten Reich (1555-1648)
Inbunden, 2007
2539 kr
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In the past years ideological elements that guaranteed cohesion and loyalties in early modern societies have become a key interest of scholarship. Revolving around the notion of amor patriae (love of country), this study shows how this classical idea with its civic humanist connotations was …
Politics and Reformations: Histories and Reformations
Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
Inbunden, 2007
2485 kr
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These twenty-three essays, presented by students, colleagues, and friends to Thomas A. Brady, Jr., the Sather Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, explore the historiographies of the Reformation from the fifteenth century to the present and study the social and …
Women, Gender and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe
Av Sylvia Brown
Inbunden, 2007
2466 kr
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This collection of twelve new essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of ‘radical’ religious movements of the post-Reformation. Organized into three themed divisions, the first examines the activism of female Quakers in their public performances as preachers and petitioners, …
Serpent and the Rose: The Immaculate Conception and Hispanic Poetry in the Late Medieval Period
Inbunden, 2008
2700 kr
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The Serpent and the Rose examines the theological and liturgical context for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in the Middle Ages, from primary sources in Iberian archives. Its main focus is a study of Marian poetry from Alfonso the Wise and Gonzalo de Berceo through to the poetry …
Between Sardis and Philadelphia: The Life and World of Pietist Court Preacher Conrad Bröske
Inbunden, 2008
2466 kr
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This study examines the life and world of Conrad Bröske (1660-1713), Court Preacher in Offenbach/Mayn. His claim to fame lies in a ten year period between 1694 and 1704 in which this Marburg-trained pastor became a prolific author, polemicist and promoter of chiliastic writings, thanks to a meeting …
Wandering Women and Holy Matrons
Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2009
2413 kr
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This book explores women’s experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about women’s mobility; literary images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real women commonly engaged in …
‘Book’ of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700
Inbunden, 2009
2700 kr
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The early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European genres, both narrative and visual, diverged indelibly from those of medieval times. This collection examines a disparate set of travel texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, to question that divergence and to …
Christian Humanism
Essays in Honour of Arjo Vanderjagt
Av Alasdair A. MacDonald, Z.R.W.M. von Martels m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2466 kr
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It is a misconception that Christianity and Humanism are in any way in conflict with each other. The present book shows that through many centuries, and especially in the Renaissance, the two stood in a relation that was mutually complementary. The contributions in this volume treat aspects and …
Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe
Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality, and Corporative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania (1526-1691)
Av István Keul
Inbunden, 2009
2466 kr
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Conceived as another chapter in the European history of religions (Europäische Religionsgeschichte), this book deals with the intense dynamics of the overlapping political, ethnic, and denominational constellations in Reformation and post-Reformation Transylvania. Navigating along multiple …
Stephen Langton: Erzbischof von Canterbury im England der Magna Carta (1207-1228)
Inbunden, 2009
3531 kr
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In historical research, Stephen Langton is primarily known as a Parisian master of theology. This biography is dedicated to Langton’s works as archbishop of Canterbury (1207-1228). His pontificate coincided with a period of political crisis in England, most notably the conflicts leading to the …
Contrite Heart: Prosecution and Redemption in the Carolingian Empire
Inbunden, 2009
2466 kr
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Between the middle of the eighth century and the late ninth century in western Europe, the course of legal history was shaped by interaction with religious ideas, especially with regard to the meaning of confession, suffering, and the balance of protections for an accused individual and the welfare …
Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews
Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus
Inbunden, 2009
2400 kr
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In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish family backgrounds went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it. The author works at the intersection to two …
Networks, Regions and Nations: Shaping Identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650
Inbunden, 2009
2472 kr
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‘Nationalism’ may be a modern phenomenon, but national identities are not. The medieval and early modern Low Countries are a case in point. In this myriad of political and clerical territories, identities proved dynamic. Princes and rebels, soldiers and poets, all played a part in the shaping of …
Queen’s Apprentice
Archduchess Elizabeth, Empress María, the Habsburgs, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1554-1569
Inbunden, 2009
2419 kr
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This book recounts the first fifteen years, early education and marriage negotiations of the Habsburg Archduchess, Elizabeth, who grew up in the Royal and Imperial Courts of Vienna and Wiener Neustadt in the latter half of the sixteenth century. It portrays life at the court of Elizabeth's mother, …
Primacy of the Postils
Catholics, Protestants, and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2009
3076 kr
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Scholarship on the German Reformation has long equated preaching with Protestantism, just as many scholars have employed sermons but usually in supplemental and unsystematic ways. Based on an analysis of over 400 standard sermon collections (postils) produced by Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists …
House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650
Inbunden, 2010
2325 kr
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This book is the only book-length monograph comparing the impact of confessional identity on both halves of the Wittelsbach dynasty which provided Bavarian dukes and German emperors as well as its implications for late Renaissance court culture. It demonstrates that religious conflict led to the …
Disputation by Decree
The Public Disputations between Reformed Ministers and Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert as Instruments of Religious Policy during the Dutch Revolt (1577-1583)
Inbunden, 2010
2374 kr
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Prevailing scholarly analysis of the public disputations between D.V. Coornhert (1522-1590) and Dutch Reformed ministers is firmly rooted in a principled view of early modern tolerance. This study proposes a new point of departure, which involves breaking away from a Coornhert-centred reading of …
Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature
Av Jeff Persels, Kendall Tarte m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
3215 kr
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Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature brings together a full score of essays by established and rising American-based scholars of the early modern. Arranged according to five themes or genres: Tales and their Tellers, Poets and Poetry, Religious Controversy, Montaigne, and Knowledge …
Negotiating Differences
Word, Image and Religion in the Dutch Republic
Av Els Stronks
Inbunden, 2011
2445 kr
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This book explores the dynamics of peaceful coexistence in the Dutch Republic by tracing the literary responses to one of the key controversies between Protestants and Catholics – the role of religious imagery in worship. Why and to what extent were people in the Republic willing to reconcile …
Athens and Wittenberg
Poetry, Philosophy, and Luther's Legacy
Av James A. Kellerman, R. Alden Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2307 kr
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Scholarship has tended to assume that Luther was uninterested in the Greek and Latin classics, given his promotion of the German vernacular and his polemic against the reliance upon Aristotle in theology. But as Athens and Wittenberg demonstrates, Luther was shaped by the classical education he had …
‘News from the Republick of Letters’: Scottish Students, Charles Mackie and the United Provinces, 1650-1750
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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The late seventeenth century Netherlands have traditionally been viewed as the intellectual entrepot of Europe in general, and for Scotland in particular. Scottish students flocked in large numbers to the Dutch universities, bringing back ideas and books which influenced Scottish learning well into …
Doctrinal Controversy and Lay Religiosity in Late Reformation Germany
The Case of Mansfeld
Inbunden, 2011
2224 kr
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In recent years, historians have questioned the notion that belief was central to the Reformation’s success, arguing rather for a variety of social, political, economic, and psychological forces. This study examines one of the intra-Lutheran doctrinal debates, the Flacian controversy over original …
