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Book SynopsisIn the last thirty years, understandings of the European reformations have been transformed. A generation of scholars has demonstrated how radically wide-ranging these movements were. Across family life, politics, material culture and philosophy, the reformations are now at the very heart of our understanding not just of early modern Europe, but of religion and identity in general. This volume collects recent work from past and present members of the European Reformation Research Group, exploring key fronts in contemporary Reformation Studies, achieving a broad view of how historiography has developed in recent decades – and where it seems set to go next.
Table of ContentsForeword: ERRG at Thirty Andrew Pettegree Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reading the Reformations Anna French Part 1 Reading the Instructive 1 ‘Teaching the Simple’: Sacramental Education in Sixteenth Century Germany Ruth Atherton 2 ‘A Godly Forme of Household’: Reading Reformed Religion in the Protestant Home Anna French 3 Divine Kingship, Royal Supremacy, and Romans 13 (1526–36) Steven M. Foster Part 2 Reading the Communal 4 Reforming France: The Protestant Political Assemblies during the First War of Religion, 1562–1563 David Nicoll 5 The Reformed Kirk and the Local Community: The Evidence of Perth’s Kirk Session Helen Gair 6 Reading: The Reformations Joe Chick Part 3 Reading the Material 7 Inscriptions, Text and the Material Culture of Worship in the Southern Netherlands, c.1566–1621 Andrew Spicer 8 Reading and Not Reading the Material Evidence in Parish Churches Susan Orlik 9 Surviving a Public Obsession: Reading the Female Body in Post-reformation Legislation and Medicine Heather Cowan Part 4 Reading the Long Reformation 10 ‘The Common Practices of an Imperfect World’: The Apparent Paradox of Cardinal Francesco Piccolomini’s Thoughts and Deeds Susan May 11 Making Public: Communicating Supernatural Belief in England’s Long Reformation Laura Sangha 12 Two Ways to Read the Bible in the (Very) Long Reformation Alec Ryrie 13 Afterword: The European Reformation Research Group Looking Forward Elizabeth Tingle Index
