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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.

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.

During the Reformation, the Book of Psalms became one of the most well-known books of the Bible. This was particularly true in Britain, where people of all backgrounds memorised and sang poetic versifications of the psalms. This book is the first to consider both English and Scottish metrical psalmody.

Magdeburg, a protestant town offered resistance to Emperor Charles V's drive to consolidate Habsburg hegemony and reinstitute Roman Catholic worship throughout Germany. This book offers an analysis of Magdeburg's printed texts which present a spectrum of arguments for resistance and suggest a coherent identity and worldview that is Protestant.

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.

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.

This work seeks to explore the development and place of Protestantism in early modern society, defined in terms of its practice in local communities and in its public pronouncements from those in authority. It looks at political context, religious motivations and the social factors of reformation.

Throughout the twentieth century Scottish literary studies was dominated by a critical consensus addressing the contemporary anti-Catholic atmosphere which resulted in a re-reading of the Reformation. This book contains essays that show that such a consensus appears untenable in light research and a detailed survey of Scottish literature.

Early modern governments constantly faced the challenge of reconciling their own authority with the will of God. This book explores the particular relationship between the Tudor supremacy over the Church and the hermeneutics of discerning God's will.

This collection of essays examines the practical impact of religious change in Central and North Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.

It has been estimated that well over half of the books published during the European Reformation were in Latin, many of which have never been translated and have garnered little scholarly attention. Yet a good number of them have a direct bearing on the history of the Reformation and its actors. One such is Roger AschamΓÇÖs Apologia pro caena dominica contra missam & eius praestigias (ΓÇÖA defence of the LordΓÇÖs Supper against the Mass and its magicΓÇÖ). Written as a direct response to a series of religious debates held at Cambridge University at the start of Edward VIΓÇÖs reign, it was published some thirty years later in the name of Roger Ascham. Exploring the influence of the Apologia, Lucy NicholasΓÇÖs book provides a detailed discussion of the workΓÇÖs contexts, content and author. In so doing she brings to light new evidence for the vital role that Cambridge University played in the advancement of English religious reform, and underlines AschamΓÇÖs highly independent approach which is emblematic of the diversity within early Protestantism. For whilst never a best-seller - being retained in manuscript until its 1577 publication and without any second edition - a full assessment of the Apologia nevertheless provides important insights into several important Reformation contexts during the first year of Edward VIΓÇÖs reign, and has much to offer anyone with an interest in the Reformation within early Tudor England. To complement this study, Lucy Nicholas has also published a modern Latin edition of the Apologia with facing page English translation (''A Translation of Roger Ascham''s Apologia pro Caena Dominica (Defence of the Lord''s Supper)'').

This book offers a new perspective to the current debate about popular religious attitudes in Tudor England, laying particular emphasis on the social and secular dimensions of parish life.

First published in 1579, George Buchanan's influential political essay achieved almost instantaneous notoriety. It was immensely influential in Britain and on the Continent, making a notable contribution to the debates over the nature and location of sovereignty.

This is a study of Hussite history. It examines Bohemia - its politics, religion and society - on the eve of the Hussite reform movement, the politics of Reformation and the theological ideas of Jan Hus.

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.

Sebastian Castellio, linguist, humanist and religious reformer, is one of the most remarkable figures of the Reformation. By telling the tale of Castellio's life, this work illuminates the furious debate he unleashed and how it marked a crucial stage in the development of Protestant thought.

This volume extends over the bulk of Pole's final legation for the reconciliation of England to Rome.

During the period covered by volume two of this set, Reginald Pole continued his career as a papal diplomat. This work generated much of the correspondence as discussed in the introduction to volume one.

Bewteen 1535 and 1603, 239 English Catholics were executed for treason. This book considers the ways in which those executions were transformed through text and image into examples of martyrdom - powerful symbols of persecution and useful propaganda.

For hundreds of years, the biblical story of the Curse of Ham was marshalled as a justification of serfdom, slavery and human bondage. According to the myth, having seen his father Noah naked, Ham's is cursed to have his descendants be forever slaves. This book explores the Curse of Ham in its Reformation context.

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.

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.

This collection of reviews deals with the role of the book in the spread of the Protestant Reformation all over the continent, identifying common European experiences and local peculiarities. It summarizes importent work on the topic from every major European country.

This text discusses the political history of the Scottish Church in the reign of James VI (1567-1625). It offers a new perspective on the Reformed Kirk during the crucial period in its development. It is an examination of relations between Kirk and State based on contemporary sources.