| Description |
x, 364 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
St. Andrews studies in Reformation history |
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St. Andrews studies in Reformation history.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Definitions of Community in Early Modern Europe / Karen E. Spierling and Michael J. Halvorson -- The French-speaking Lands -- 2. Communities of Worship and the Reformed Churches of France / Raymond A. Mentzer -- 3. Between the Living and the Dead: Preserving Confessional Identity and Community in Early Modern France / S. Amanda Enrich -- 4. A Community of Active Religious Women / Susan E. Dinan -- 5. The Complexity of Community in Reformation Geneva: The Case of the Lullin Family / Karen E. Spierling -- The German-speaking Lands -- 6. Child Circulation within the Early Modern Urban Community: Rejection and Support of Unwanted Children in Nuremberg / Joel F. Harrington -- 7. Late Sixteenth-Century Lutherans: A Community of Memory? / Susan R. Boettcher -- 8. Jewish Communities in Central Europe in the Sixteenth Century / Dean Phillip Bell -- 9. Demonstrationes catholicae: Defining Communities through Counter-Reformation Rituals / John M. Frymire -- 10. Lutherans Baptizing Jews: Examination Reports and Confessional Polemics from Reformation Germany / Michael J. Halvorson -- Northern Europe: England, Scotland, and The Netherlands -- 11. Beating the Bounds of the Parish: Order, Memory, and Identity in the English Local Community, c. 1500-1700 / Steve Hindle -- 12. Breaching "Community" in Britain: Captives, Renegades, and the Redeemed / Claire S. Schen -- 13. Scotland's "City on a Hill": The Godly and the Political Community in Early Reformation Scotland / Kristen Post Walton -- 14. Competing Visions of the Mennonite Gemeinde: Examples from Early Modern Krefeld in Their Dutch Context / Michael Driedger -- Italy -- 15. "I can't imagine it won't bear fruit": Jesuits, Politics, and Heretics in Siena, Montepulciano, and Lucca / Kathleen M. Comerford -- 16. Contesting Vesuvius and Claiming Naples: Disaster in Print and Pen, 1631-1649 / Sean Cocco |
| Summary |
"This volume illuminates the variety of ways in which communities were defined and operated across early modern Europe: as imposed by community leaders or negotiated across society; as defined by belief, behavior, and memory; as marked by rigid boundaries and conflict or by flexibility and change; as shaped by art, ritual, charity, or devotional practices; and as characterized by the contending or overlapping boundaries of family, religion, and politics. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate the complex and changeable nature of community in an era more often characterized as a time of stark certainties and inflexibility. As a result, the volume contributes a vital resource to the ongoing efforts of scholars to understand the creation and perpetuation of communities and the significance of community definition for early modern Europeans."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Communities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Communities -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045633
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| Author |
Halvorson, Michael.
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Spierling, Karen E., 1970-
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| LC no. |
2008016620 |
| ISBN |
9780754661535 |
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0754661539 |
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