Cultural Shifts and Ritual Transformations in Reformation Europe

Essays in Honor of Susan C. Karant-Nunn
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43601-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 223, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 724 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

This volume honors the work of a scholar who has been active in the field of early modern history for over four decades. In that time, Susan Karant-Nunn’s work challenged established orthodoxies, pushed the envelope of historical genres, and opened up new avenues of research and understanding, which came to define the contours of the field itself. Like this rich career, the chapters in this volume cover a broad range of historical genres from social, cultural and art history, to the history of gender, masculinity, and emotion, and range geographically from the Holy Roman Empire, France, and the Netherlands, to Geneva and Austria. Based on a vast array of archival and secondary sources, the contributions open up new horizons of research and commentary on all aspects of early modern life.

Contributors: James Blakeley, Robert J. Christman, Victoria Christman, Amy Nelson Burnett, Pia Cuneo, Ute Lotz-Heumann, Amy Newhouse, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Helmut Puff, Lyndal Roper, Karen E. Spierling, James D. Tracy, Mara R. Wade, David Whitford, and Charles Zika.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christman, Victoria

Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Prologue

James J. Blakeley and Robert J. Christman

part 1: The Early Reformation in Saxony

1 Simultaneously Bride and Whore: Martin Luther, the Bride of Christ, and the Limits of Hyperbole

David M. Whitford

2 Luther and Gender

Lyndal Roper

3 High Noon on the Road to Damascus: A Reformation Showdown and the Role of Horses in Lucas Cranach the Younger’s Conversion of Paul (1549)

Pia F. Cuneo

4 Aging and Retirement of Former Nuns after the Reforming of the Convent in Ernestine Saxony

Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer

part 2: Devotional Ritual and Popular Religion

5 Streitkultur Meets the Culture of Persuasion: The Flensburg Disputation of 1529

Amy Nelson Burnett

6 How to Make a Holy Well: Local Practices and Official Responses in Early Modern Germany

Ute Lotz-Heumann

7 Distinguishing between Saints and Spirits. Or How to Tell the Difference between the Virgin Mary and Mary the Ghost?

Kathryn A. Edwards

part 3: Cultural History and the Religious and Political Self

8 Advice from a Lutheran Politique: Ambassador David Ungnad’s Circular Letter to the Austrian Estates, 1576

James Tracy

9 Emblematic Strategies in the Devotions and Dynasty of Dorothea, Princess of Anhalt

Mara R. Wade

10 “Rebellious Sister?” Mary of Hungary, Queen-Regent of the Netherlands, 1531–1555

Victoria Christman

part 4: Culture in Motion: Emotion, Space, and Gender

11 Compassion in Punishment: The Visual Evidence in Sixteenth-Century Depictions of Calvary

Charles Zika

12 Above the Skin: Cloth and the Body’s Boundary in Early Modern Nuremberg

Amy Newhouse

13 Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Imagery: A Contribution to Early Modern Gender History

Helmut Puff

14 ‘One Must Speak the Truth Rather than Staying Silent’: Women, Scandal, and the Genevan Consistory

Karen E. Spierling

Epilogue: A Festival of Festschriften

Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Victoria Christman, Ph.D. (2005), University of Arizona, is Professor of History at Luther College. Her research focuses on religious coexistence in the sixteenth-century Low Countries, and her publications include Pragmatic Toleration: The Politics of Religious Heterodoxy in Early Reformation Antwerp, 1515–1555 (Rochester, 2015).

Marjorie Plummer, Ph.D. (1996), Virginia, is Susan C. Karant-Nunn Professor of Reformation and Early Modern History at University of Arizona. Her publications include From Priest’s Whore to Pastor’s Wife (Ashgate, 2012) and articles on convents, marriage, and religious plurality in Germany.