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"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.

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.

An examination of the debate over clerical marriage in Reformation polemic and of its impact on the English clergy in the second half of the 16th century. The study sets the debate within the context of the key debates of Reformation, offering insights into attempts to break with the Catholic past.

Brings together research in three areas of Anabaptist studies and the Radical Reformation. The first section focuses on 16th-century Anabaptism, re-examining the "polygenesis" model; the second deals with connections with other Reformation dissenters; the third explores historiographic issues.

Throughout the 16th century, political and intellectual developments in Britain and the Netherlands were intertwined, with a constant exchange of books, ideas, people and religious thought. This study explores the ramifications of these links.

This work is concerned with the communication of the Christian message, specifically through sermons and their reception via the theme of penitence. The relationship between the medieval church and the later Protestant tradition is also considered.

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.

This is a listing of all religious printing in French between 1511 and 1551. Also included are lists of printers, arranged both according to city and alphabetically.

All the reforming mid-Tudor regimes used historical discourses to support the religious changes which they introduced and the Reformation as a historical event was written and rewritten by various historians to offer legitimation for policies. This study examines these histories.

This study investigates the moral policies of both Church and State in the age of Counter-Reformation confessionalization in Venice. Examining ecclesiastical and civil lawsuits, the author shows how central sexual morality was to the patriarchal society of 16th- and 17th-century Venice.

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.

With the exception of John Knox, no one did more to shape the Scottish Reformation than Andrew Melville. Remembered chiefly as a firebrand defender of radical Presbyterianism and reformer of the Scottish university system.

Across early-modern Europe the confessional struggles of the Reformation touched virtually every aspect of civic life. Focussing on events in Scotland, this book surveys the transformation of Scotland's medieval and Catholic university system into a greatly-expanded Protestant one in the decades following the Scottish Reformation of 1560.

Offers insights into the nature and extent of early-modern religious narratives. This book provides an understanding of the motivations behind the personal expressions of early-modern religious faith. It is suitable for students in various areas of study, including literary, historical, and theological contexts.

Drawing together many case studies from diverse parts of Europe, this title explores the processes involved when groups of differing confessions had to live in close proximity - sometimes grudgingly, but often with a benign pragmatism that stood in opposition to the will of their rulers.

This study hopes to contribute to the larger question of why France remained a Catholic country by putting forward what it argues was a determining factor in this loyalty - the large body of Catholic literature offering persuasive arguments to the Reformation debate.

"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.

Reginald Pole (1500-1558), cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury, was at the centre of reform controversies in the mid 16th century. His voluminous correspondence forms a major source for historians. This work makes this vast body of material accessible to the researcher, summarising each letter together with necessary identification and comment.

Provides an explanation of the processes which went into the selection and creation of bishops during the early years of Elizabeth I's reign, when the conduct of ecclesiastical affairs was dominated by Cecil and his allies.