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Patnode, Jonathan S. "The rise of social history of the Reformation a study in Reformation historiography, 1962-1996 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Pörtner, Regina. "The counter-Reformation in Central Europe : Styria 1580-1630 /." Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/331529696.pdf.
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Carter, Thomas. "The civic reformation in Coventry, 1530-1580." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:61c31bb7-26d7-4e3a-a2a0-a9627040697d.
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This thesis considers the civic elite in Coventry during the Reformation, from 1530-1580. It describes how the presence of a longstanding civic and political culture, dating back to the late middle ages, helped to mitigate religious change and bring other economic and social priorities to the fore during this period. The thesis looks at contemporary understanding of ideas of the city, including civic history and political power, as well as the economic forces which shaped the civic government?s interaction with other political hierarchies and the broader social world of the kingdom. It is argued that, although the corporation was keen to protect and define the political and physical boundaries of the city, they lived in an environment that was permeable to outside influence and the presence of geographically broad social and political networks. Urban political disputes are also examined, with the aim of elucidating those principles which ensured the smooth running of civic government and the control of the city by the corporation and the civic elite. Religious disagreements during the 1540s and 1550s are examined in detail, to show why, despite the potential for turmoil, the city never saw the breakdown of order or the political hierarchy. The spread of protestantism during later decades is dissected, alongside attempts to maintain urban religious provision at an acceptable standard, and to preserve the structures and hierarchies of civic religion. The thesis concludes that, even in cities like Coventry, where the effects of the dispute and dissonance that came with the growth of a new religion were strongest, it was possible for the traditional moral rules of urban governance to ensure that the city was an ordered and successful society well into the latter half of the sixteenth century.
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Mattox, Mickey L. "The late medieval context of Luther's thought Professor Heiko A. Oberman and the "Oberman School's" revival of late medieval thought /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Liechty, Daniel. "Andreas Fischer and the Sabbatarian Anabaptists : an early reformation episode in East Central Europe /." Scottdale (Pa.) ; Kitchener (Ont.) : Herald press, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb371960313.
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Bryʹcko, Dariusz Mirosław Bryʹcko Dariusz Mirosław. "An ecumenical movement in early modern Europe a revision of Jan Łaski's irenic efforts among Polish Protestants /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2002.Abstract and vita. Appendix: Introduction to the Confession of Sandomierz / by Dariusz Mirosław Bryʹcko. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-79).
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Gilday, Patrick E. "Musical thought and the early German Reformation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0ac3d705-c00e-4fc9-b90c-4902f9b54f8f.
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German musicology has customarily situated a paradigm shift in musical aesthetics some time during the first half of the sixteenth century. This dissertation examines the suggestion that German Reformation theology inspired a modern musical aesthetic. In Part One, the existing narrative of relationship between theological and musical thought is tested and rejected. Chapter 1 analyses twentieth-century music historians' positive expectation of commensurability between Luther's theological ideas and the sixteenth-century concepts of the musical work and musical rhetoric, concluding that their positive expectation was dependent on a Germanocentric modernity narrative. Chapter 2 assesses Listenius' Musica (1537), the textbook in which the concepts of the musical work and musica poetica were expounded for the first time. I argue that, since Listenius' textbook was intended as a pedagogical tool, it is inappropriate to read his exposition of musica poetica and opus as if logical sentences on musical aesthetics. Part Two investigates the treatment of musica in the theology of early German Reformation disputants. Chapter 3 finds that Luther's early musical thought was borrowed from the late mediæval mystics, and resisted the influence of the Renaissance Platonists. Chapter 4 shows that, far from embracing humanist ideas of musical rhetoric, Luther's Reformed musical aesthetic became increasingly anti-rational and sceptical of music's relation to verbal meaning. Chapter 5 examines the discussions of music by the German Romanist polemicists. It finds that their music-aesthetic assertions were opportunistic attempts to situate the Lutherans outside the bounds of orthodoxy. The dissertation concludes that the discussions of music in early German Reformation texts ran counter to the general sixteenth-century trajectory towards a humanistic or modern aesthetic of music. It further argues that the aesthetic proposals of sixteenth-century German theologians should be taken seriously in the formation of our present-day picture of sixteenth-century musical thought.
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Milazzo, Renaud. "Le marché des livres d'emblèmes en Europe. 1531-1750." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017SACLV052/document.
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Si les livres d’emblèmes ont servi de sujet à de nombreuses études littéraires, leur marché n’a pas fait l’objet d’une analyse historique systématique. Pour y parvenir, cette recherche se base sur deux sources. Un corpus a été réalisé à partir des catalogues des principales bibliothèques permettant de suivre année par année, sur deux siècles et au niveau européen, l’évolution de la production des livres d’emblèmes. Rapidement cette étude a fait ressortir que le principal éditeur de ces ouvrages n’est autre que Christophe Plantin dont la politique commerciale dans ce domaine sera reprise par ses héritiers aussi bien à Anvers qu’à Leyde. La richesse des sources conservées au Musée Plantin-Moretus permet non seulement de connaître tous les frais de fabrication de nombreux livres d’emblèmes mais surtout d’en suivre les ventes au niveau national et international grâce aux foires de Francfort.La recherche a déjà souligné que la vogue des livres d’emblèmes suit de près la progression des idées de Luther en Europe. Les premiers dépouillements et analyses statistiques ont permis de confirmer que si les livres d’emblèmes sont, à l’origine, majoritairement silencieux sur les préférences confessionnelles de leurs auteurs, ils éveillent l’intérêt d’imprimeurs, d’éditeurs et d’auteurs imprégnés d’une culture favorable aux différents courants réformés. Ce facteur est souvent masqué par la prolifération tardive des livres d’emblèmes jésuites et dominicains répondant aux principes tridentins. A ce sujet, les deux sources utilisées ici permettent d’éclairer significativement la ventes des livres d’emblèmes au XVIe et XVIIe siècleWhile emblem books have been the subject of many literary studies, their trade has not been the subject of a systematic historical analysis. To achieve this, this research is based on two sources. A corpus was produced from the catalogs of the main libraries and provides data for tracking the evolution of the production of emblem books to be followed year by year, over two centuries on an European level. Quickly this study revealed that the main editor of these works is none other than Christophe Plantin, whose commercial policy in this field will be taken up by his heirs in Antwerp as well as in Leyden. The richness of the sources kept in the Plantin-Moretus Museum not only allows us to know all the costs of making many emblem books, but also to monitor their sales at national and international level through the Frankfurt trade fairs.Research has already emphasized that the vogue of emblem books is almost simultaneous with the progression of Luther's ideas in Europe. The first researches and statistical analyzes confirmed that if the emblem books were originally largely silent on the confessional preferences of their authors, they have awoken interest of printers, publishers and authors impregnated with a culture favorable to the various reformed currents. This factor is often masked by the late proliferation of books of Jesuit and Dominican emblems responding to the Tridentine precepts. In this regard, the two sources used here helped to enlight on the sales of emblem books in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Dalton, Alison J. "John Hooper and his networks : a study of change in Reformation England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:833f0dcf-8426-49e8-a10e-3f0f50300e2e.
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The research is a study of the context of the life and work of John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, 1551-1555. It charts the nature of his relationships with friends, patrons, mentors, colleagues, and lay and clerical supporters and opponents in England and on the Continent, through the study of ecclesiastical, political, business and economic, intellectual, official and judicial, kinship and social networks in which he was involved. Its purpose is to reveal the complex mix of societal and confessional pressures influencing Hooper's approach and constraining his freedom of manoeuvre, and to a large extent determining how successful he was at achieving change. The study reveals key determinants of the nature and direction of the Reformation in England. It shows that the pressure to change doctrinal allegiances and to accommodate reformed church practices challenged not only personal confessional loyalties but also the very framework of society; that is, familial and social ties, economic, business and judicial groupings, educational affiliations, and ruling oligarchies. Within these societal networks there existed the momentum for, and resistance to, religious change. Confessional allegiances were just part of a complex mix of political and social pressures that included the exercise of patronage and protection, the use of conflict and compromise, the practise of different obligations, allegiances and loyalties, the employment of status and kinship, and the accommodation of various alliances and means of association. All of these influenced Hooper's approach and scope for action. As such, the research provides insight into why and how, in the development of the newly-reformed church in England, thoroughgoing religious change was resisted and contained.
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Manetsch, Scott M. "The pyrrhonical tradition in post-Reformation Europe, and its surprising guise in the writings of the English deist Anthony Collins." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Manetsch, Scott M. "The pyrrhonical tradition in post-Reformation Europe, and its suprising guise in the writings of the English deist Anthony Collins." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1988.
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Plank, Ezra Lincoln. "Creating perfect families: French Reformed Churches and family formation, 1559-1685." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1727.
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Although the eruption of religious dissent in Germany touched off by Martin Luther in 1517 began as a theological disagreement, the ensuring years would reveal that these religious ideas had important social consequences. They set into motion a process of reordering society and forming of confessional identities that had significant implications for the nuclear family. Reflecting John Calvin's assertion that "every individual Family ought to be a Little Church of Christ," Reformed Protestants sought to transform nuclear families into spiritual communities, creating domestic microcosms of the larger church.
This project examines the religious formation of families among the French Reformed (Huguenot) Churches, demonstrating that this was a cultural offensive as much as it was a religious one. Huguenot leaders wanted far more than their congregants to attend church: this programme transformed the roles and responsibilities of family members, shaped the activities and routines of the household, circumscribed and defined the appropriate associations of family members, and reorganized the family schedule. This study illuminates the Huguenots' conception of a "holy household" by analyzing the four primary characteristics of these godly families - ordered, educational, pure, and pious - and describes how they were conceived of and implemented in Reformed communities across early modern France.
In order to provide a comprehensive understanding of the French Reformed family, this dissertation bridges the divide between intellectual history and social history. There was no greater intellectual source for French Protestantism than John Calvin and Geneva: Calvin was one of the primary theologians influencing the development of Protestantism in France, and the Genevan Church served as an advisor and template for many of the Huguenot churches. Accordingly, each chapter examines in depth the theological underpinnings of this effort, analyzing Calvin's sermons, commentaries, Institutes of the Christian Religion, and written correspondence with leaders of the Huguenot churches. This investigation, in turn, provides an understanding of the religious sources for this new emphasis holy family and domestic piety in France, without which it would be impossible to fully appreciate.
To balance these prescriptive sources, I analyze descriptive records to understand how the actual reform of the family was carried out on the local level. In particular, my research relies extensively on church discipline records (consistory registers) from churches throughout France: Albenc (1606-1682), Archiac (1600-1637), Blois (1574-1579), Coutras (1582-1584), Die (1639-1686), Le Mans (1560-1561), Mussidan (1593-1599), Nîmes (1561-1564), Pont-de-Camares (1574-1579), Rochechouart (1596-1635), and Saint-Gervais (1564-1568). These records reveal the complex and messy manner of this reform, which was often marked by contestation and negotiation. Throughout, I compare these records to Genevan discipline records to compare and contrast how Calvin's own church instituted this familial reform in the Genevan context. My project, in sum, reveals the heretofore overlooked religious role and significance of the family and home in Reformed churches of early modern France.
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Cichy, Andrew Stefan. "'How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?' : English Catholic music after the Reformation to 1700 : a study of institutions in Continental Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0bdfe9b2-b5c6-48fe-a565-ddb699b72312.
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Research on English Catholic Music after the Reformation has focused almost entirely on a small number of Catholic composers and households in England. The music of the English Catholic colleges, convents, monasteries and seminaries that were established in Continental Europe, however, has been almost entirely overlooked. The chief aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the musical practices of these institutions from the Reformation until 1700, in order to arrive at a clearer understanding of the nature of music in the post-Reformation English Catholic community. To this end, four institutions have been selected to serve as case studies: 1. The Secular English College, Douai. 2. St Alban’s College, Valladolid. 3. The Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady of the Assumption, Brussels. 4. The Augustinian Monastery of Our Lady of Nazareth, Bruges. The music of these institutions is evaluated in two ways: firstly, as a means of constructing, reflecting and forming English Catholic identity, and secondly, in terms of the range of influences (both English and Continental) that shaped its stylistic development. The thesis concludes that as a result of the peculiarly domestic nature of religious practice among Catholics in England, and interactions with Continental Catholicism, the aesthetic and ideological bases for English Catholic music were markedly different from those of its Protestant counterpart. The marked influence of Italianate styles on the sacred music of English Catholic composers and institutions in exile demonstrates a simultaneous process of cultural alignment with the aesthetic and theological principles of the Counter-Reformation, and dissociation from those of English Protestantism. Finally, it is clear that music was an important formational tool in both the seminaries and convents, where it shaped both community and self-identity, and created affinities with the locales in which these institutions were situated – although it is also clear that these uses of music had the potential to conflict.
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Wainwright, Robert James David. "Covenant and Reformed Identity in England 1525-1555." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4f423557-a3b1-461d-9257-1db2be736e35.
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This study examines Reformed identity as an aspect of religious identity formation during the early Reformation period. It contributes towards an understanding of the character of the English Reformation by examining the reception of Swiss theology. The research is principally focussed upon the theological concept of covenant which blossomed in a distinctively bilateral and conditional form in early Reformation Switzerland. Patterns of thought discerned in English theology are related to this Swiss pattern, thereby assisting the process of identifying individual reformers according to continental models and elucidating an important theological development of the period. The concept of covenant had implications for contemporary discourses regarding the doctrines of justification and sanctification. It also made an impact upon sacramental theology in the way that sacraments were viewed as covenant signs. Despite the essential uniformity of the Swiss Reformed concept of covenant, three distinct emphases arose in Swiss Reformed sacramental theology with regard to the efficacy of the sacraments as means of grace. Having identified cases of English reception of the Swiss concept of covenant, their specific influences are determined using patterns of sacramental theology. Chapter one considers the problems involved in discerning different forms of religious identity in this period. Evidence for Reformed identity in England from the 1520s to the 1550s is surveyed from various different angles. The transmission of Swiss ideas through the Low Countries is considered, and alternative explanations for the failure of English Lutheranism are evaluated, particularly Lollardy and humanism. Chapter two demonstrates the essential consistency of the concepts of covenant espoused by leading Swiss reformers. Chapter three examines the concepts of covenant of four English reformers. Chapter four highlights different patterns in Swiss sacramental theology, and chapter five analyses English cases in light of those Swiss models.
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Matteoni, Francesca. "Blood beliefs in early modern Europe." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/4523.
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This thesis focuses on the significance of blood and the perception of the body in both learned and popular culture in order to investigate problems of identity and social exclusion in early modern Europe. Starting from the view of blood as a liminal matter, manifesting fertile, positive aspects in conjunction with dangerous, negative ones, I show how it was believed to attract supernatural forces within the natural world. It could empower or pollute, restore health or waste corporeal and spiritual existence. While this theme has been studied in a medieval religious context and by anthropologists, its relevance during the early modern period has not been explored. I argue that, considering the impact of the Reformation on people’s mentalities, studying the way in which ideas regarding blood and the body changed from late medieval times to the eighteenth century can provide new insights about patterns of social and religious tensions, such as the witch-trials and persecutions. In this regard the thesis engages with anthropological theories, comparing the dialectic between blood and body with that between identity and society, demonstrating that they both spread from the conflict of life with death, leading to the social embodiment or to the rejection of an individual. A comparative approach is also employed to analyze blood symbolism in Protestant and Catholic countries, and to discuss how beliefs were influenced by both cultural similarities and religious differences. Combining historical sources, such as witches’ confessions, with appropriate examples from anthropology I also examine a corpus of popular ideas, which resisted to theological and learned notions or slowly merged with them. Blood had different meanings for different sections of society, embodying both the physical struggle for life and the spiritual value of the Christian soul. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 develop the dualism of the fluid in late medieval and early modern ritual murder accusations against Jews, European witchcraft and supernatural beliefs and in the medical and philosophical knowledge, while chapters 5 and 6 focus on blood themes in Protestant England and in Counter-Reformation Italy. Through the examination of blood in these contexts I hope to demonstrate that contrasting feelings, fears and beliefs related to dangerous or extraordinary individuals, such as Jews, witches, and Catholic saints, but also superhuman beings such as fairies, vampires and werewolves, were rooted in the perception of the body as an unstable substance, that was at the base of ethnic, religious and gender stereotypes.
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Kirby, James. "Historians and the Church of England : religion and historical scholarship, c.1870-1920." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7056c671-d64b-4014-b209-f4f5dde2d39d.
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The years 1870 to 1920 saw an extraordinary efflorescence of English historical writing, dominated by historians who were committed members of the Church of England, many of them in holy orders. At a time when both history and religion were central to cultural life, when history was becoming a modern academic discipline, and when the relationship between Christianity and advanced knowledge was under unprecedented scrutiny, this was a phenomenon of considerable intellectual significance. To understand why this came about, it is necessary to understand the intellectual and institutional conditions in the Church of England at the time. The Oxford Movement and the rise of incarnational theology had drawn Anglicans in ever greater numbers towards the study of the past. At the same time, it was still widely held that the Church of England should be a ‘learned church’: it therefore encouraged scholarship, sacred and secular, amongst its laity and clergy. The result was to produce historians who approached the past with a new set of priorities. The history of the English nation and its constitution was rewritten to show that the church – and especially the medieval church – was the originator and guarantor of modern nationality and liberty. Attitudes to the Reformation shifted from the celebratory to the sceptical, or even the downright hostile. Economic historians even came to see the Reformation as a social revolution – as the origin of modern poverty or capitalism. New and distinctive ideas about progress and divine providence were developed and articulated. Most of all, an examination of Anglican historical scholarship shows the continued vitality of the Church of England and the limitations to the idea that intellectual life was secularised over the course of the nineteenth century. Instead, historiography continued to be shaped by Anglican thought and institutions at this critical stage in its development.
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Merkle, Benjamin R. "Triune Elohim : the Heidelberg antitrinitarians and Reformed readings of Hebrew in the confessional age." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6673c702-a1b2-47e8-a112-92d98e689918.
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In 1563, the publication of the Heidelberg Catechism marked the conversion of the Rhineland Palatinate to a stronghold for Reformed religion. Immediately thereafter, however, the Palatinate church experienced a deeply unsettling surge in the popularity of antitrinitarianism. To their Lutheran and Catholic opponents, this development revealed a toxic connection between Reformed theology and the tenets of antitrinitarianism. As early as 1565, for instance, the Catholic Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius argued anonymously that the Reformed principle of sola scriptura was indistinguishable from the biblicism which had led heretics to reject the doctrine of the Trinity on the grounds that it was nowhere explicitly justified in the biblical text. Seven years later, the displaced Italian theologian and Heidelberg professor, Girolamo Zanchi, countered this argument in his De Tribus Elohim (1572). This huge landmark of this early theological crisis in Heidelberg sought to oppose the biblicism of the early antitrinitarians by arguing that the doctrine of the Trinity was explicitly taught within the Hebrew divine names Jehovah and Elohim. The following year De Tribus Elohim received an Imperial Privilege from the Catholic court in Vienna, a distinction virtually unheard of for a Reformed theological text. Zanchi’s argument was then widely promulgated in the marginal notations of the tremendously influential Biblia Sacra of Franciscus Junius and Immanuel Tremellius, and became a staple of refutations of antitrinitarianism thereafter. Yet Zanchi’s confidence that trinitarian theology was contained within the Hebrew of the Old Testament was not shared by many of his own Reformed colleagues. John Calvin’s exegetical works had explicitly rejected this argument; and theologians like David Pareus (Zanchi’s younger colleague in Heidelberg) and the Dutch Hebraist Johannes Drusius preferred a more historical-grammatical reading of the Old Testament and dismissed Zanchi’s reading of the name Elohim despite the danger that this might sacrifice a valuable defence against antitrinitarianism. Complicating the picture further, the Lutheran polemicist Aegidius Hunnius directed Zanchi’s arguments against Calvin in his Calvinus Iudaizans (1593). This variety of responses to Zanchi’s argument demonstrates the diversity of assumptions about the nature of the biblical text within the Reformed church, contradicting the notion that the Reformed world in the age of “confessionalization” was becoming increasingly homogenous or that the works of John Calvin had become the authoritative touchstone of Reformed orthodoxy in this period.
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Diaz, Hannah. "Reformation London and the Adaptation of Observed Piety." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3256.
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In reformation London, the shift of the governed religion enabled laymen to recognize individuality in their faith, to read scripture in the vernacular, and to exercise their faith outside of mass. Therefore, the overall perception of personal piety took a turn from being exercised communally to becoming something reflective of the individual. Analyzing gender dynamics, language, religious orders, and theology reveal this transition and help gain a holistic understanding of transitioning perceptions of piety. This thesis contributes to the rich historiographical conversation in understanding Reformation studies. By adopting elements from top-down and bottom-up approaches, this thesis further develops on the understanding of perceptions of religious piety in reformation London.
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Rössner, Philipp Robinson [Verfasser]. "Deflation – Devaluation – Rebellion : Geld im Zeitalter der Reformation / Philipp Robinson Rössner." Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1073646912/34.
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Heise, Steven K. F. "An Atlantic Reformation: Abolitionism in the Anglo-American Atlantic World, 1770-1807." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1219166049.
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Budke, Tobias [Verfasser]. "Die geschenkte Reformation : Bücher als Geschenke im England des 16. Jahrhunderts / Tobias Budke." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1080404635/34.
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Bobzin, Hartmut. "Der Koran im Zeitalter der Reformation : Studien zur Frühgeschichte der Arabistik und Islamkunde in Europa /." Beirut : in Komm. bei F. Steiner Verl. Stuttgart, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35811090p.
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Frymire, John Marshall. "Pestilence and Reformation: Catholic preaching and a recurring crisis in sixteenth-century Germany." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/279789.
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This study examines some of the plague sermons of German Catholic preachers during the sixteenth century, the era of the Reformation. It takes the question, "What was preached?" and applies it to a hitherto neglected genre of sources to investigate how Catholic preachers responded to a recurring, pre-Reformation crisis---plague---and how they interpreted that crisis during an era of revolutionary religious change. Special attention is given to the themes of astrology and the causes of plague, interpretations of epidemic disease in terms of divine wrath, plague prevention and social discipline. By comparing some of the Catholic plague sermons with those of their Protestant counterparts, similarities emerge to reveal a shared "Catholic" tradition, just as differences become apparent that reflect many of the debates between the confessions in sixteenth-century Germany. The theme of Catholic preaching and the German Reformation itself, however, has received little attention in the field, despite the fact that scholars have begun to devote much research and exposition to Protestant sermons during the period. Contrary to common opinion--that Catholics failed to measure up to their evangelical counterparts in the pulpits--this study also sketches some of the contours of Catholic preaching during the first three decades of the Reformation: major preachers, the sources, and some of the themes they emphasized. Conceived as both a thesis and as an outline for further research, it is argued here that the Catholic response from the pulpits was of greater scope and higher quality than has hitherto been assumed.
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Osborne, Kristin O'Neill. "The Last Abbey: Crossraguel Abbey and The Scottish Reformation." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1588281088895518.
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Dieleman, Kyle J. [Verfasser]. "The Battle for the Sabbath in the Dutch Reformation : Devotion or Desecration? / Kyle J. Dieleman." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. http://www.v-r.de/.
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Bruening, Michael Wilson. "Bern, Geneva, or Rome? The struggle for religious conformity and confessional unity in early Reformation Switzerland." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280155.
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The Reformation in French-speaking Switzerland outside of Geneva has received relatively little attention from historians. Unlike the movement in Geneva, the Reformation in its neighboring lands progressed in a completely different manner and was ultimately imposed on the people by the magistrates of Bern. Before 1536, Protestant reformers such as Guillaume Farel and Pierre Viret hardly touched most areas of the Pays de Vaud, which was governed by the Catholic duke of Savoy. Instead, they concentrated their efforts on areas within the jurisdiction of or allied to Protestant Bern, where they met with strong resistance from the people. The reformers focused their attacks---in preaching, in print, and symbolically in acts of iconoclasm directed against church altars---on the Catholic mass. Very few parishes abolished the mass, however. The religious situation shifted dramatically in 1536, however, when Bern conquered Vaud in its war against Savoy. Due to widespread resistance to the Protestant preachers, Bern imposed the Reformed faith on all its subjects following the 1536 Lausanne Disputation. The "new religion" was opposed by many, particularly the former Catholic clergy, many of whom continued to celebrate Catholic ceremonies in secret while waiting for a final resolution by the promised general council. The nobles suddenly found themselves vassals of the "common man," the Bern city council, and were loath to institute religious changes on their lands. The commoners in Vaud continued to practice traditions, such as praying to the saints and observing Catholic feast days. The Bernese magistrates and the Calvinist ministers in Vaud recognized these problems but could not agree on how to fix them. The Bernese saw the Reformation as a long-term process and hoped eventually to effect change by their ordinances. The ministers, led by Pierre Viret and strongly influenced by John Calvin, believed that change was taking place too slowly and that meanwhile the "body of Christ" was being polluted by unworthy communicants taking the eucharist. They argued for the necessity of greater ecclesiastical discipline, including excommunication, and the dispute led to the banishment of Viret and his colleagues, who subsequently moved to Geneva.
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Bormuth, Heike [Verfasser]. "Patrons of the Priests : Kirchliche Patronage im Spannungsfeld englischer Reformation und Religionspolitik (1540–1630) / Heike Bormuth." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1142097048/34.
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Hampson, Mary Regina Seeger. "Thomas Becon and the English Reformation: "The Sick Man's Salve" and the Protestantization of English Popular Piety." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625996.
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Eter, Khodr Mohammed Amine. "The reaction of Reformation scholars in the Islamic-Arab culture to the effects of European thought." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357678.
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Christogeorgis, Panagiotis E. "Regulatory competition and supervisory co-ordination in the reformative process of European banking." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264778.
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Hanson, Brian L. [Verfasser]. "Reformation of the Commonwealth : Thomas Becon and the Politics of Evangelical Change in Tudor England / Brian L. Hanson." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. http://www.v-r.de/.
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Drenas, Andrew J. G. "'The Standard-bearer of the Roman Church' : Lorenzo da Brindisi (1559-1619) and Capuchin Missions in the Holy Roman Empire." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:74703f2b-5da1-4a5c-bc77-923f006781f3.
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This thesis examines the missionary work of the Italian Capuchin Lorenzo da Brindisi. Renowned in his own day as a preacher, Bible scholar, missionary, chaplain, and diplomat, as well as vicar general of his Order, Lorenzo led the first organised, papally-commissioned Capuchin mission among the non-Catholics of Bohemia in the Holy Roman Empire from 1599 to 1602, and returned there, again under papal mandate, from 1606 to 1613. This thesis examines Lorenzo’s evangelistic and polemical activities in Central Europe in order to shed light on some of the ways the Capuchins laboured in religiously divided territories to confirm Catholics in their faith and to win over heretics. The introduction explains, principally, the thesis’s purpose and the historiographical background. Chapter one provides a brief biographical sketch of Lorenzo’s life followed by details of his afterlife. Chapter two examines his leading role in establishing the Capuchins’ new Commissariate of Bohemia-Austria-Styria in 1600, and specifically its first three friaries in Prague, Vienna, and Graz. Chapter three treats his preaching against heresy. Chapter four focuses on how Lorenzo, while in Prague, involved himself directly in theological disputations with two different Lutheran preachers. The first dispute, with Polykarp Leyser, took place in July 1607, and dealt with good works and justification. The second, with a Lutheran whose name is not known for certain, and which occurred in August 1610, concerned Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary. Chapter five analyses the Lutheranismi hypotyposis, Lorenzo’s literary refutation of Lutheranism following additional contact with Polykarp Leyser in 1607. The conclusion considers briefly the effectiveness of Lorenzo’s apostolate and closes with a review of the thesis as a whole.
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Ramos, Neto João Oliveira. "Fé subversiva: uma análise do conflito sociopolítico da ideologia anabatista com as demais propostas da Reforma Protestante na Europa Central entre os anos de 1525 a 1555." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6054.
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This thesis’ object is about the conflict between the Anabaptist movement and the others protestant divisions in the Protestant Reformation, between 1525 and 1555 in Central Europe. The central problematic is the reason that led the other reformers to condemn the Anabaptists. The main hypothesis is that Anabatists’ radical theological proposal was also a subversive ideological proposal. The research was based on the movement sources, not the antagonists’ sources, as it is common in historiography. In the first chapter we analyzed the socio-spatial foundations of the movement, identifying its main support groups. It was found that the Anabaptists were predominantly formed by various social segments, which were dynamic and of urban origin. In the second chapter, we investigated the first Anabaptist ideological proposal; their theology denied baptism to children was intended to separate the secular and religious powers. In the third chapter we tried to understand the pacifist ideological proposal. In the fourth and final chapter, we analyzed the proposal of ending private property. The hypothesis that the Anabaptists did not share their properties was not confirmed. It is perceived that the persecution to them was misled; they were wrongly accused of preaching something that they did not preach indeed. The third Anabaptist ideological proposal was about taking care of the poor, according to the other reformers wings. Therefore, it was concluded that the Anabaptists were not only persecuted by their different theology, but their ideology, which is refusing to baptize children and fighting the Turks. And this persecution was not motivated because they were poor peasants, since their top leaders were members of the urban elite, and there were followers from all social groups.
Esta tese tem como seu objeto de estudo o conflito entre o movimento anabatista e as demais correntes da Reforma Protestante entre 1525 e 1555 na Europa Central. A problematização principal foi o questionamento de qual foi o motivo que levou os demais reformadores a condenarem os anabatistas. A hipótese central foi que isso ocorreu em função da proposta teológica radical dos anabatistas ser também uma proposta ideológica subversiva. Como metodologia, a pesquisa baseou-se nas fontes do próprio movimento como ponto de partida, e não nas fontes dos inimigos, como é predominante na historiografia. No primeiro capítulo analisou-se as bases sócio-espaciais do movimento, identificando os seus principais grupos de sustentação. Constatou-se que os anabatistas eram movimentos predominantemente urbanos e dinâmicos formados por diversos segmentos sociais. No segundo capítulo, investigou-se a primeira proposta ideológica anabatista, em que a teologia que negava o batismo para crianças pretendia separar os poderes secular e religioso. No terceiro capítulo tentou-se compreender a proposta ideológica pacifista. No quarto e último capítulo, por fim, analisou-se a proposta do fim da propriedade privada. A hipótese de que os anabatistas não tinham seus bens em comum não foi confirmada. Com isso, percebe-se que foram perseguidos equivocadamente, acusados de pregarem algo que não pregavam de fato. A terceira proposta ideológica anabatista era no sentido de cuidar dos pobres, de acordo com as demais alas reformadoras. Portanto, concluiu-se que os anabatistas foram perseguidos não só pela teologia diferente, mas pela ideologia que pregavam, quando se recusaram a batizar crianças e lutar contra os turcos. Porém, isso não foi motivado porque eram pobres camponeses, pois seus principais líderes eram membros da elite urbana, e havia seguidores de todos os grupos sociais.
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Fett, Denice Lyn. "Information, Intelligence and Negotiation in the West European Diplomatic World, 1558-1588." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275425139.
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Wolfe, Michelle. "The Tribe of Levi: gender, family and vocation in English clerical households, circa 1590-1714." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1095790286.
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Kawczak, Steven M. "Beliefs and Approaches to Death and Dying in Late Seventeenth-Century England." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1320179487.
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Tedder, Melody. "Patronage Piety and Capitulation: The Nobilitys Response to Religious Reform in England." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1301.
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The Tudor Reformation period represents an era fraught with religious and political controversy. It is my goal to present the crucial role the nobility played in the success of the Henrician Reformation as well as to provide a reasonable explanation for the nobility's reaction to religious and political reform. I will also seek to quantify the significance of the nobility as a social group and prove the importance of their reaction to the success of the Henrician Reformation. The nobles because of patronage, self-interest, piety, apathy, fear, or practicality were motivated to support the king's efforts. Their response was the key to the success or failure of the Henrician Reformation. Although Henry VIII started the process of reform, the Henrician Reformation would never have been successful without the enforcement, collaboration, and backing of the nobility.
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Hartsfield, Byron J. "Changing Narratives of Martyrdom in the Works of Huguenot Printers During the Wars of Religion." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7164.
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The aim of my project is to show how the lives, strategies and attitudes of Huguenot printers of the late sixteenth century both reflected and influenced the self-image of Protestant Europeans. Historians of the book such as Roger Chartier and Adrian Johns have argued that the process of printing includes several components which are easily overlooked by historians interested in exploring thoughts and attitudes. My project attempts to put these insights to practical use by demonstrating how printers were as integral to the process of reading as were readers and writers. I investigate the lives, social networks, and business strategies of a pair of successful Huguenot printers of Geneva, Jean Crespin and Eustache Vignon. My investigation shows how they relied on cooperative, international networks to practice their business and that this fostered a practical, cosmopolitan attitude among them. I then examine Jean Crespin’s most famous work, the Livre des Martyrs, showing how it supplied the needs of his readers for a sense of meaning an community. I show how this work changed over time in response to changing needs and circumstances, as seen most dramatically in the version which Eustache Vignon produced after his partner’s death. Finally, I examine how Vignon – along with other Protestant printers of his time – began to produce books about the New World. I argue that these New World Works, reflecting the printers’ cosmopolitan perspective, promoted a more ecumenical vision of Christianity and a universal ethic based on kindness and justice.
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Richards, John. "Thucydides in the Circle of Philip Melanchthon." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376788422.
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Atchison, Liam Jess. "The English interpret St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans chapter thirteen: from God save the king to God help the king, 1532 – 1649." Diss., Kansas State University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/306.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of History
Robert D. Linder
In England, 1532‐1649 was an era during which questions about obedience to rulers dominated ethical discussions. Most English people also respected biblical authority for governing certain behaviors. Obedience was central to the monarchy’s survival and the Bible was central to reformation of an English Church laden with medieval accretions. St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans 13:1‐7 was the most important biblical passage for understanding the Christian’s relationship to civil authority during this period, and interpreters had such high regard for biblical authority that the backing of this passage was crucial to the acceptance of any political theory that involved ideas about obedience or disobedience. Though eisegesis was not out of the question as a technique among these interpreters, societal and political circumstances motivated most exegetes to examine the text more closely than they might have if St. Paul’s meaning had been irrelevant. These conditions led to creative handling of the text that permitted the exegetes to continue to submit to biblical authority while advocating their varied opinions on obedience to civil authority. Some interpreters moved outside the constraints of traditional views of monarchy and obedience to develop a theory that God mediated his call to rulers through those who elected them. Acceptance of this theory finally brought about rejection of divine right monarchy, as symbolized by the execution of Charles I in 1649. By too quickly concluding that these English expositors merely sought biblical justification for their views after the fact, scholars have failed to appreciate how Romans 13 positively shaped Reformation views of the Christian’s relationship to the state. As the title suggests, this study will examine the discernable shift from seeing Romans 13:1‐7 as a text that commands non‐resistance to rulers to one that not only permits disobedience, but requires it. Thus, Romans 13 is not simply an influential political text, but stands as the most important political text of the period under consideration. This dissertation supplies a needed analysis of representative exegesis of Romans 13:1‐7 during this critical period of English history and considers the influence of these expositions on the development of republian ideals.
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Kohn, Jarred Lee. "Martin Luther and the Diet of Worms:Yoking Lutheranism to Secular Power." Athenaeum of Ohio / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=athe152544579683434.
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Oral, Tolga. "The Place Of The European And The United Nations Based Agreements In Prison Reformation Process In Turkey: An Evaluation Of The Effects Of Internal Dynamics Versus External Inputs On The Application Of F-type Prisons In Turkish Legal System." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614628/index.pdf.
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This thesis seeks to evaluate the compatibility of the legal and institutional policies about F-Type Prisons applied by Turkish State with the European and the United Nations Based Agreements and Conventions which stipulate certain standards for the penitentiary system in the high contracting party states. It tries to make two level analysis: On the one hand, the relevant Turkish codes and the institutional settings of the penitentiary system in Turkey, namely internal dynamics, are examined in order to chart the ground for the F-Type Prison reforms. On the other hand, the thesis attempts to depict the European and the United Nations based documents as well as the formal reports of the monitoring bodies of them about F-Type Prisons in Turkey.
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Rocha, Eduardo dos Santos. "Utopia e realidade no exílio: uma análise da produção escrita huguenote no período de \"crise da consciência europeia\"." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-18092012-095354/.
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O objetivo do presente trabalho é analisar a produção escrita huguenote no exílio no decorrer de um período de aproximadamente trinta anos (1676-1707), época marcada pela revogação do édito de Nantes (1685). Dentre as dezenas de milhares de reformados proscritos da França em virtude das perseguições religiosas ocorridas durante o reinado de Luís XIV, alguns indivíduos publicaram, nomeadamente na Inglaterra e nas Províncias Unidas, escritos de gêneros totalmente distintos, como relações de viagem, cartas pastorais, tratados políticos, teológicos e filosóficos, utopias e projetos coloniais. A finalidade da dissertação é examinar detalhadamente tais escritos, identificando propostas e debates de ordem política, social, econômica e/ou religiosa, que indubitavelmente refletiam as inquietações e expectativas dos huguenotes no referido momento, ou seja, suas diferentes reações diante de uma conjuntura histórica antagônica.The objective of this study is to analyze the Huguenot written production in exile during a period of approximately thirty years (1676-1707), a time marked by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). Amongst tens of thousands of protestants banned from France because of religious persecution that occurred throughout the reign of Louis XIV, some individuals published, particularly in England and the United Provinces, completely different genres of writings, like travel accounts, pastoral letters, political, theological and philosophical treaties, utopias and colonial projects. The purpose of the dissertation is to examine these writings in detail, identifying proposals and debates on political, social, economic and/or religious order, which undoubtedly reflected the concerns and expectations of the Huguenots in that time, ie, their different reactions under an antagonistic context.
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Thompson, William Keene. "Local Reception of Religious Change under Henry VIII and Edward VI: Evidence from Four Suffolk Parishes." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/803.
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From the second half of Henry VIII's reign through that of his son Edward VI, roughly 1530 through 1553, England was in turmoil. Traditional (Catholic) religion was methodically undermined, and sometimes violently swept away, in favor of a biblically based evangelical faith imported and adapted from European dissenters/reformers (Protestants). This thesis elucidates the process of parish-level religious change in England during the tumultuous mid sixteenth century. It does so through examining the unique dynamics and complexities of its local reception in a previously unstudied corner of the realm, the Suffolk parishes of Boxford, Cratfield, Long Melford, and Mildenhall. This thesis asserts that ongoing alterations in religious policy under Henry VIII and Edward VI reflected an evolution in both governmental tactics and local attitudes toward the locus of religious authority. Contrary to the view that the Reformation was done to the English people, the parish-level evidence investigated herein shows that, at least in Suffolk, the reformation was only accomplished with their cooperation. Furthermore, it finds that while costly, divisive, and unpopular in many parts of England, religious change was, for the most part, received enthusiastically in these four parishes. Two types of primary sources inform the historical narrative and analysis of this thesis. First, the official documents of religious reform initiated by the crown and Parliament tell the story of magisterial reformation, from the top down. Second, the often-mundane entries found in churchwardens' accounts of parish income and expenditure illuminate the individual and communal dynamics involved in implementing religious policy on the local level, from the bottom up. As agents operating between the distinct spheres of government authority and local interest, this study finds that churchwardens wielded significant power in the mediation of religious policy. The churchwardens' accounts are also supplemented throughout by analysis of selected parishioners' wills, which provide insight into personal beliefs of key individuals and hint at the formation of early religious affinity groupings within parishes. Chapter One summarizes the development of the pre-Reformation Sarum liturgy, its Eucharistic theology, and its relation to the late-medieval doctrine of purgatory. It also describes the richly decorated interiors of pre-Reformation English parish churches and their function as centers of community spiritual life. This provides a gauge through which to understand the extensive changes wrought to church liturgy and fabric during the Reformation. Chapter Two focuses on the unsettled nature of religious policy during the second half of Henry VIII's reign and how it set the stage for more severe changes to come. Chapters Three and Four examine the reign of Edward VI, which saw the most radical efforts at evangelical reform ever attempted in England. In these three chapters, official changes in religious policy are interwoven with analysis of local reaction in the four Suffolk parishes, revealing some surprising local responses and initiatives. The conclusion presents a summary of the historical narrative and analysis presented in the preceding chapters, suggests possibilities for further research, and offers closing thoughts about the local experience of negotiating religious change during this period.
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Swanson, Barbara Dianne. "Speaking in Tones: Plainchant, Monody, and the Evocation of Antiquity in Early Modern Italy." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1365170679.
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Carty, Jarrett A. "Machiavelli, Luther, and the reformation of politics." 2006. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-04182006-112310/.
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Kermode, Lloyd Edward. "Alien stages: Immigration, reformation, and representations of Englishness in Elizabethan moral and comic drama." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/19275.
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This dissertation discusses the complex representation of foreigners in sixteenth-century English drama. It relates literary evidence to contemporary implicit and overt allegations that vices brought to England by both immigrant aliens and returning English travelers were corrupting, infecting, or "alienating" England and the English.
My thesis argues that, during the Elizabethan period, the English experienced an increasing awareness of their own "national" identity vis-a-vis immigrant aliens and ideas of the alien "other" in literary representation. Such awareness spawned an English obsession with preserving an imaginary core of "English identity" against alien encroachments.
The "alienation" of the English is both physical and psychological. Aliens buy up property and evict innocent English tenants; they ruin English artisans by importing fashionable trifles and using inferior materials in order to undercut the domestic market price; and they pass on their evil, alien ethics and heterodoxy. The English who remain unaffected by the alien find themselves needing to "colonize" their own country as they feel increasingly identified as the strange "other" in an "alienated" society. The English response varies from calls for expulsion of the aliens to petitions for mass English repentance.
Through an investigation of general trends and specific literary and cultural events, this study finds that English community, although self-assured and proud, effectively loses this battle with the alien. By the end of the sixteenth century, despite the efforts of preachers, polemicists, and prophets, who publish and perform at length in an attempt to reform the wayward island nation, the English are "alienated."
By locating a discussion of the emergence of "national identity" in the sixteenth century, this dissertation provides a foundation for, and encourages rehistoricized reading of, the (post-) colonial studies that engage with English identity in the seventeenth century. Before it was possible for the English to think of (re)defining themselves by means of their seventeenth-century "discoveries," they were creating an idea of Englishness in response to the incoming alien; English identity thus becomes an attribute of the colonial travelers that was radically altered--rather than invented anew--in the process of exploration and exploitation.
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Hrosch, Regine C. [Verfasser]. "Das Bild als historische Quelle? : Abbildungen zur Reformation in Geschichtsbüchern / von Regine C. Hrosch." 2006. http://d-nb.info/981860834/34.
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Hasbrouck, Peter. "Enzinas to Valera: motives, methods and sources in sixteenth-century Spanish Bible translation." Thesis, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15178.
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This dissertation contributes to the understanding of sixteenth-century vernacular Bible translation by means of a comparative analysis of seven editions of the Old and New Testaments in Spanish: the New Testament (1543) of Francisco de Enzinas, the Old Testament (1553) in two editions by Abraham Usque and Yom Tob Atias, the New Testament (1556) of Juan Pérez de Pineda, the complete Bible of Casiodoro de Reina, the New Testament of Cipriano de Valera (1596) and Valera's revision of Reina's Bible (1602).
These Spanish Bibles reflect both general trends in sixteenth-century scholarship and translation and the specific circumstances of Spanish Evangelicals and their communities in exile. In their prefaces, the motives and methods of the Spaniards for producing Bible translations are similar to those of Luther, Calvin, or Coverdale, yet there is a unique Spanish pride evident as well. The translations themselves provide examples both of a deliberately wooden, non-literary approach as well as a literary, pre-modern critical approach to translation. The Spaniards also negotiated questions of political and religious authority in their prefaces, though philological concerns are also important, especially for Reina and Valera.
A close examination of the Spanish texts clearly shows a direct line of descent from Enzinas to Pérez and on to Reina and Valera, with each borrowing substantially from the previous translation. The Complutensian Polyglot (1520) and Erasmus' Novum Instrumentum (1516) as well as the traditional Vulgate influenced the Spanish translators, though not to the exclusion of their own independent judgment and their use of other vernacular translations such as the French of Olivétan.
These earlier models of scholarship influenced the first translations of Enzinas, Usque-Atias, and Pérez, but after the middle of the sixteenth century Reina and Valera became increasingly reliant on the Genevan biblical scholarship pioneered by Theodore Beza. Despite the context in which Reina worked, distinctly Lutheran renderings left virtually no mark on the Spanish Bible tradition. As the confessional boundaries of Protestant factions hardened, so did the theological orientation of the Spanish Bibles. The irenic humanism of Enzinas gave way to the Calvinism reflected in Cipriano de Valera's translation.
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Welsh, Jennifer Lynn. "Mother, Matron, Matriarch: Sanctity and Social Change in the Cult of St. Anne, 1450-1750." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/1198.
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As a saint with no biblical or historical basis for her legend, St. Anne could change radically over time with cultural and doctrinal shifts even as her status as Mary's mother remained at the core of her legend and provided an appearance of consistency. "Mother, Matron, Matriarch: Sanctity and Social Change in the Cult of St. Anne, 1450-1750" takes issue with the general view that the cult of St. Anne in Northern Europe flourished in the late Middle Ages, only to wither away in the Reformation, and advances a new understanding of it. It does so by taking a longer view, beginning around 1450 and extending to 1750 in order to show how St. Anne's cult and the Holy Kinship elucidated long-term shifts in religious and cultural mores regarding the relationships between domesticity and sanctity, what constituted properly pious lay behavior, and attitudes towards women (in particular older women). Materials used include vita, devotional texts, confraternal records, sermons, treatises, and works of art across the time period under investigation. After a definite period of decline during the mid-sixteenth century (as evidenced by lower pilgrimage statistics, confraternity records, and a lack of text production), St. Anne enjoyed a revival in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Catholicism in a "purified" form, reconfigured to suit new religious and social norms which emphasized patriarchal authority within the household and obedience to the Catholic Church among the laity. In this context, St. Anne became a humble, pious widow whose own purity serves as proof of Mary's Immaculate Conception, and whose meek devotion to her holy daughter and grandson exemplified properly obedient reverence for the laity.
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