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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.

Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603 examines the selection and promotion of bishops within the shifting sands of ecclesiastical politics at the Elizabethan court, drawing on the copious correspondence of leading politicians and clerical candidates as well as the Exchequer records of the financial arrangements accompanying each appointment. Beginning in 1577, the book picks up the narrative where Brett Usher''s previous book (William Cecil and Episcopacy, 1559-1577) left off, following the fall of Archbishop Grindal, which brought the Elizabethan church to the brink of disaster. The book begins with an outline of the period under review, challenging the traditional view of corruption and decline. Instead Usher provides a more complex picture, emphasizing the importance of court rivalries over patronage and place, and a broadly more benign attitude from the Exchequer, which distinguishes the period from the first half of the reign. Within this milieu the book situates the dominance of the Cecils - father and son - in ecclesiastical affairs as the key continuity between the two halves of Elizabeth''s reign. Providing a fresh analysis of the Burghley''s long and influential role within Elizabethan government, Usher both illuminates court politics and the workings of the Exchequer, as well as the practical operation of Elizabeth''s supremacy. Specifically he demonstrates how Elizabeth learnt a valuable lesson from the debacle over the fall of Grindal, and from the late 1570s, rather than taking the lead, customarily she looked to her councillors and courtiers to come to some accommodation with each other before she would authorize appointments and promotions. Note: Brett Usher died in 2013 before the publication of this book. Final editing of the typescript was undertaken by Professor Kenneth Fincham of the University of Kent, who also guided the book through the publication process.

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 collection focusses upon the history and theology of sin and salvation in reformation and post-reformation England. Exploring their complex social and cultural constructions, it underlines how sin and salvation were not only great religious constants, but also constantly evolving in order to survive in the rapidly transforming religious landscape of the reformation. Drawing upon a range of disciplinary perspectives - historical, theological, literary, and material/art-historical - to both reveal and explain the complexity of the concepts of sin and salvation, the volume further illuminates a subject central to the nature and success of the Reformation itself.

In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life have increasingly been identified as being of critical importance in understanding the social and cultural impact of the Reformation. This interdisciplinary collection draws together essays from historians, literary scholars, musicologists and others working at the cutting edge of research in this area to provide an historiographical overview of recent work on dying, death and burial in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe.

This book explores individual and community involvement in the approbation, reconfiguration and regulation of early modern sacred spaces and the behavior (both animal and human) within them. Based on new archival research, chapters examine diverse aspects of the campaigns to transform Christian behavior within a variety of types of sacred space and through a spectrum of media. Essays give voice to the arguments and accusations that surrounded the activities taking place in sacred space and reveal much about how people made sense of these transformations.

The belief that God eternally and unalterably decrees the election of one part of humankind and the reprobation of the rest has not aged well, but in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the doctrine of predestination was publicised and popularised to an extent unparalleled in the history of Christianity. Why was this.

Over the last twenty years research on the Reformation in Germany has shifted both chronologically and thematically toward an interest in the 'long' or 'delayed' Reformations. Whilst this focus has resulted in many fascinating new insights, it has also led to the relative neglect of the early Reformation movement.

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.

Hearing was of vital importance in the early modern period, and music was one of the most prominent, powerful and emotive elements of religious worship. This book begins with an exploration of the classical and religious discourses which underpinned sixteenth-century understandings of music, and its use in religious worship.

Focuses on the response to broad liturgical and doctrinal change, and also looks at how theological and reform messages could be utilized among local leaders and civic elites. This book shows how monasteries, endowed initially out of the charitable impulses of elites, increasingly came to depend increasingly on lay stewards to remain viable.

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.