{"product_id":"cultural-shifts-and-ritual-transformations-in-reformation-europe-essays-in-honor-of-susan-c-karant-nunn-9789004436015","title":"Cultural Shifts and Ritual Transformations in Reformation Europe: Essays in Honor of Susan C. Karant-Nunn","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume honors the work of a scholar who has been active in the field of early modern history for over four decades. In that time, Susan Karant-Nunn’s work challenged established orthodoxies, pushed the envelope of historical genres, and opened up new avenues of research and understanding, which came to define the contours of the field itself. Like this rich career, the chapters in this volume cover a broad range of historical genres from social, cultural and art history, to the history of gender, masculinity, and emotion, and range geographically from the Holy Roman Empire, France, and the Netherlands, to Geneva and Austria. Based on a vast array of archival and secondary sources, the contributions open up new horizons of research and commentary on all aspects of early modern life.     Contributors: James Blakeley, Robert J. Christman, Victoria Christman, Amy Nelson Burnett, Pia Cuneo, Ute Lotz-Heumann, Amy Newhouse, Marjorie Elizabeth  Plummer, Helmut Puff, Lyndal Roper, Karen E. Spierling, James D. Tracy, Mara R. Wade, David Whitford, and Charles Zika.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"this is a collection that will be of great interest to all scholars of the Reformation. These essays are astonishingly engaging. The essays [...] may seem to be super-specific (and they are), but potential readers ought not let that scare them off. These contributions are festooned with incredibly interesting historical facts.[...] Reformation scholars, persons interested in gender studies, and those inclined to the investigation of the minutest details of early modern European history will all enjoy making their way through this collection. I think you will enjoy it. And so I recommend it to you.\"    Jim West (ThD), Ming Hua Theological College \/ Charles Sturt University, in Zwinglius Redivivus (https:\/\/zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com\/2021\/04\/17)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations  List of Figures  Notes on Contributors  Prologue   James J. Blakeley and Robert J. Christman    part 1: The Early Reformation in Saxony  1 Simultaneously Bride and Whore: Martin Luther, the Bride of Christ, and the Limits of Hyperbole   David M. Whitford    2 Luther and Gender   Lyndal Roper    3 High Noon on the Road to Damascus: A Reformation Showdown and the Role of Horses in Lucas Cranach the Younger’s Conversion of Paul (1549)   Pia F. Cuneo    4 Aging and Retirement of Former Nuns after the Reforming of the Convent in Ernestine Saxony   Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer    part 2: Devotional Ritual and Popular Religion  5 Streitkultur Meets the Culture of Persuasion: The Flensburg Disputation of 1529   Amy Nelson Burnett    6 How to Make a Holy Well: Local Practices and Official Responses in Early Modern Germany   Ute Lotz-Heumann    7 Distinguishing between Saints and Spirits. Or How to Tell the Difference between the Virgin Mary and Mary the Ghost?   Kathryn A. Edwards    part 3: Cultural History and the Religious and Political Self  8 Advice from a Lutheran Politique: Ambassador David Ungnad’s Circular Letter to the Austrian Estates, 1576   James Tracy    9 Emblematic Strategies in the Devotions and Dynasty of Dorothea, Princess of Anhalt   Mara R. Wade    10 “Rebellious Sister?” Mary of Hungary, Queen-Regent of the Netherlands, 1531–1555   Victoria Christman    part 4: Culture in Motion: Emotion, Space, and Gender  11 Compassion in Punishment: The Visual Evidence in Sixteenth-Century Depictions of Calvary   Charles Zika    12 Above the Skin: Cloth and the Body’s Boundary in Early Modern Nuremberg   Amy Newhouse    13 Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Imagery: A Contribution to Early Modern Gender History   Helmut Puff    14 ‘One Must Speak the Truth Rather than Staying Silent’: Women, Scandal, and the Genevan Consistory   Karen E. Spierling    Epilogue: A Festival of Festschriften   Merry Wiesner-Hanks    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210805403991,"sku":"9789004436015","price":164.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultural-shifts-and-ritual-transformations-in-reformation-europe-essays-in-honor-of-susan-c-karant-nunn-9789004436015","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}