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Drawn from a conference held in 1995, these essays cover the history of early modern Europe. Topics discussed include the Reformation in eastern and central Europe, Protestant literature in Bohemian private libraries around 1600, and morals courts in rural Berne during the early modern period.

This study looks at the perception of the Franciscan order in the 15th and 16th centuries. This order became the focus of attack in a pamphlet war waged against it in 1523 by converts to the Reformation. One of this war's main participants was von Gunzburg, who is studied here in depth.

The author casts a sympathetic eye over forms of belief that would have incited the orthodox of both sides, in this book on the Reformation. Subjects include the congregation of Windesheim and its influence on Protestantism, the Protestant attack on popular culture, and marriage and the family.

Richard Greenham was one of the most important and respected figures among the Elizabethan clergy and the founder of the pastoral art of curing cases of conscience. This study presents a biography of Greenham, an analysis of his work and pastoral style, and a selection of his writings.

Dr Georg Eder rose from humble origins to hold a number of high positions at Vienna University and the city's Habsburg court between 1552 and 1584. This book examines his position as a Catholic in the predominantly Protestant Vienna of his day and his survival as an advocate of Catholic reform, largely through the protection of Habsburgs' rivals.

Drawing on the municipal archives of 11 French provincial towns and other sources, this book explores the links between local and national politics during the Wars of Religion of the later 16th century. It argues that the response of the French towns to the challenge of heresy, and later the Catholic League, was conditioned by local circumstances.

Places John Day in the context of the sixteenth-century printing industry, and examines his disputed origins and establishment as a London printer. This book discusses his Elizabethan career, together with the most significant works he printed, and his connections with the Stranger communities in London.

Explores how Luther and his colleagues adopted traditional themes and motifs even as they transformed them to accord with their conviction that Christians could be certain of their salvation. This study shows how Luther's colleagues drew on his writings, his teaching on dying, and other writings including his sermons on the sacraments.

The essays in this festschrift volume have been arranged under two main thematic headings: Reformation theology and the medieval heritage, and the spiritual life of families.

Immanuel Tremellius (1510-1580) was one of the most significant and important theological scholars of the Reformation. Following his conversion to Christianity from Judaism, he rose to prominence in the mid-sixteenth century as a professor of Hebrew and Old Testament studies. This book studies Tremellius' life and works.

'Moderation' in Reformation Europe was in short supply. Yet numerous individuals and regimes found themselves forced into positions of moderation as they were caught in the crossfire of confessional debate. Presenting individual case studies and national attempts at conciliation, this collection of essays outlines various approaches towards understanding moderation in Reformation Europe and examines the way moderation was perceived and manipulated in an age of confessional conflict.

The relationship between music and religious identity in Augsburg on the eve of the Thirty Years War is the focus for this book. How did 'Catholic' and 'Protestant' repertories diverge from one another? What was the impetus for this differentiation, and what effect did the circulation and performance of this music have on Augsburg's religious culture? These questions call for a new, cross-disciplinary approach to the music history of this era, one which moves beyond traditional accounts of the lives and works of composers, or histories of polyphonic genres. Using a wide variety of archival and musical documents, Alexander Fisher offers a holistic view of this musical landscape, examining aspects of composition, circulation, performance, and cultural meaning.

Originally available only in Dutch, this text provides an English speaking audience with a detailed account of William's role in the Dutch Revolt that reflects the vast amount of scholarship undertaken in the field of European political and religious history.

Mark Taplin's study traces the impact of a vociferous minority of genuine Italian Protestants who evangelized up until the early 1540s. It was because of persecution that many of them were forced to leave Italy. This volume focuses upon those who spent their exile in Zurich.

Johann von Staupitz is remembered as the superior of Friar Martin Luther, but has been neglected as a subject of academic discourse. This study of von Staupitz's life is in reality a theological biography.

This text uses the town of Mountauban as a focus for a discussion of French Calvinism during the French Wars of Religion. The material ranges from the specific to the general, encompassing the role of Montauban as a Huguenot heartland and its place in international Calvinism.

Based upon papers presented at Duke University in 1998, this collection focuses on how early modern German culture, society and politics was transformed by its social structures and practices and the media of communication.

Exploring spiritual kinship, this book examines the fortunes of godparenthood in early modern England. Through this study, Will Coster attempts to illuminate some of the major issues in the religious and social history of the early modern era.

This volume is the product of a conference held in London, under the aegis of the Institute of Romance Studies, on 7th May 1998. Although it was an interdisciplinary conference, these papers are based on the recurring theme of the reading and interpretation of the Bible in the Renaissance.

This volume assess the power of these songs and others, and the relationship between music and morality in shaping the popular movement of the German Reformation. It looks at how popular songs spread ideas through all levels of German society and focuses on the lower strata of the population.

"De Unione Insulae Brittanicae" (The British Union) is a unique early-17th-century tract that urged the fusion of the Scottish and English kingdoms into a new British commonwealth with a radically new British identity. This is a translation of the tract, the publication of which was suppressed.

Reginald Pole (1500-1558) was never a man of few words, which is reflected by the enormity of his correspondence. Through these volumes, Thomas F. Meyer aims to provide the reader with the necessary information to interpret Pole's correspondence.

This text further develops some of the ideas discussed at a conference at the University of Cluj in 1999. The conference and the book share a focus on the significance of printed religious texts in east-central Europe during the early modern period.

Interest in John Foxe and his influential text "Acts and Monuments" has been re-ignited. This volume, the third to arise from a series of international colloquia on Foxe, collects essays by established and up-and-coming scholars on topics including Roman Catholicism, gender and visual culture.

This case study examines the history of the Netherlandic Mennonite community living in and around Hamburg after the Thirty Years War. During this period Mennonites had to conform politically while trying to preserve many of the non-conformist ideals of their forebears.

A collection of papers on the 16th-century French religious book. At the heart of the work is the question of what motivated the mass activism that inspired and lay behind the three generations of turbulent religious agitation following the eruption of Luther's movement in Germany.

A collection of essays that continue with the topics and issues that John Bossy's past and present labours continue to illuminate. The focus is on the ideas of "Christianity" and "community", especially in the West, and the shift in relationship between the two in early modern history.

In early modern Europe there were cases - specifically in England and Germany - when the idea of "self-defence" was used as a justification for what seems, to modern eyes, as extreme, unjustified violence. This text examines the notions beneath the claims in the context of the times.

This text examines the culture of giving that developed after the Reformation, considering the religious and social aspects of poor relief, including those of gender, community, and the recasting of the role of the poor within society.