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  • Stripping the Veil

    Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth Century Germany

    Series series Studies in German History
    Protestant nuns and mixed-confessional convents are an unexpected anomaly in early modern Germany. According to sixteenth-century evangelical reformers' theological positions outlined in their publications and reform-minded rulers' institutional efforts, monastic life in Protestant regions should have ended by the mid-sixteenth century. Instead, many convent congregations exhibiting elements of ... Read more

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  • Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany

    Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort

    While the assumption of a sharp distinction between learned culture and lay society has been broadly challenged over the past three decades, the question of how ideas moved and were received and transformed by diverse individuals and groups stands as a continuing challenge to social and intellectual historians, especially with the emergence and integration of the methodologies of cultural history. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ritual Theatre

    The Power of Dramatic Ritual in Personal Development Groups and Clinical Practice

    Ritual theatre is a powerful healing system that has been practised since ancient times by early societies and in tribal communities. It has the ability to effect deep transformation in its participants, support growth and development, and resolve personal issues.This book considers the relevance of ritual theatre in contemporary life and describes how it is being used as a highly cathartic ... Read more

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  • From Priest's Whore to Pastor's Wife

    Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation

    On 13 June 1525, Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, a former nun, in a private ceremony officiated by city preacher Johann Bugenhagen. Whilst Luther was not the first former monk or Reformer to marry, his marriage immediately became one of the iconic episodes of the Protestant Reformation. From that point on, the marital status of clergy would be a pivotal dividing line between the Catholic ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Archeologies of Confession

    Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017

    Series Book 16 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Archeologies of Confession

    Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017

    Series Book 16 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in ... Read more

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  • Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany

    Series Book 20 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics—the study of names—in the German-speaking lands, this volume, gathering leading scholars across multiple disciplines, explores the dynamics ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Martin Luther

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  • Brand Luther

    How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation

    A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation’s 500th anniversaryWhen Martin Luther posted his “theses” on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months, his ideas spread across Germany, then all of Europe; within years, their author was not just famous, but ... Read more

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  • Reformation and Early Modern Europe

    A Guide to Research

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    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
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