Bücher der Reihe St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

This volume comprises 13 essays exploring penitential teachings and practises from the late-15th to the early-17th centuries in Western Europe and its colonies. Together the essays reveal that, in this period, penitence was an increasingly important force shaping the individual and society.

Examines Tudor views on the senses in order to create a new lens through which to explore the English Reformation. This title begins with an examination of pre-Reformation beliefs and practices, establishing intellectual views on the senses in fifteenth-century England, and situating them within their contemporary philosophical tensions.

The English Civil War was a time of disruption, suffering and persecution for many people, not least the clergy of the established church, who found themselves ejected from their livings in increasing numbers as Parliamentarian forces extended their control across the country. Yet, historians have tended to downplay their suffering.

Scholars increasingly recognise that understanding the history of religion means understanding worship and devotion as well as doctrines and polemics. Early modern Christianity consisted of its lived experience. This title brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to discuss what that lived experience comprised, and what it meant.

King James is well known as the most prolific writer of the Stuart monarchs, publishing works on numerous topics and issues. This title provides an examination of James' writings within their original Scottish context, their political implications and their role in his management of his religio-political reputation both at home and abroad.

In 1621, in one of the earliest campaigns of the Thirty Years' War, the South German principality of the Upper Palatinate was invaded and annexed by Maximilian of Bavaria, director of the Catholic League. This book aims to place the political impact of the Thirty Years' War into the broader context of the Upper-Palatinate's religious culture.

Contains a biographical study of Sebastian Munster, and a discussion on the genre of cosmography. By analysing the contents of the "Cosmographia", this book attempts to recreate how the world of the sixteenth century appeared to a scholar living in Basel, and understand what he saw and heard.

One of the major challenges faced by the emergent Protestant faith was how to establish itself in a hitherto Catholic world. This study explores the life and works of one of the earliest and most influential Protestant historians, Johann Sleidan to reveal how history was used to consolidate the new confession and the states which adopted it.

The idol has traditionally been regarded as the anti-image, the thing in opposition to which 'good' art was defined. This volume shows how both its embrace and its consequences expanded in unprecedented ways in the years after 1500.

A collection of essays, which offer a perspective on the impact of the European reformation. It examines the church and its personnel, a sphere of life that was entirely transformed by the Reformation.

Carlos M.N. Eire's deeply innovative publications have helped to shape new fields of study of the Reformation, intertwining social, intellectual, cultural, and religious history to reveal how, lived beliefs had real and profound implications for social and political life in early modern Europe. Reflecting these themes.

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.

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.

Highlights different paths that Calvinism followed as it took root in Western Europe and which allowed it to develop within fifty years into dominant Protestant confession. This collection adds to the picture of a flexible Calvinism that could adapt to meet specific local conditions and needs in order to allow the Reformed tradition to thrive.

"The Whole Book of Psalms" was one of the most published and widely read books of early modern England, running to over 1000 editions between the 1570s and the early eighteenth century. This book is the study of it, and the critical examination of the texts of which it comprises.

Illuminates the variety of ways in which communities were defined and operated across early modern Europe: as imposed by community leaders or negotiated across society; as defined by belief, behavior, and memory; as marked by rigid boundaries and conflict or by flexibility and change; and as shaped by art, ritual, charity, or devotional practices.

John Merbecke (c 1505 - c 1585) is the composer of the first musical setting of the English liturgy, "The booke of Common Praier Noted". Situating Merbecke's work within a broader intellectual and religio-cultural context of Tudor England, this book challenges the studies of Merbecke based on the narrow theological approach to the Reformation.