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Book SynopsisWhat, in the 16th and 17th centuries, was "superstition"? Where might it be found and how might it be countered? This text reveals attitudes to prophets, ghosts, saints and demonology, Catholic responses to the Reformation and the apparent presence of "superstition" in the reformed churches.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction - Helen Parish & Wiliam G. Naphy
Part I: Superstition, Tradition and this World
1. Images of the Virgin Mary and Marian Devotion in Protestant Nuremberg - Bridget Heal
2. Not like us: Catholic identity as a defense against Protestantism in Rottweil, 1560-1618 - Jason Nye
3. Traditional Practices: Catholic Missionaries and Protestant Religious Practice in Transylvania - Maria Craciun
4. The Jesuit Legend: Creating Superstitions and Myths - Eric Nelson
Part II: Superstition, Tradition and the Other World
5. ‘The Spirit of Prophecy has not wholly left the World’: The Stylisation of Archbishop James Ussher as a Prophet - Ute Lotz-Heumann
6. Serving Two Masters: John Knoz, Scripture and Prophecy - Dale Johnson
7. A Protestant or Catholic Superstition? Astrology and Eschatology during the French Wars of Religion - Luc Racaut
8. Rational Superstition: The Writings of Protestant Demonologists - Peter G. Maxwell-Stuart
9. Deceptive Appearances: Ghosts and Reformers in Elizabethan and Jacobean England - Peter Marshall
