Archeologies of Confession

Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-496-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: 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 Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory. By tracing their ramifications through the centuries, Archeologies of Confession carefully reconstructs the often surprising histories of plurality that have otherwise been lost or obscured.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Carina L.

Luebke, David M.

Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth

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Spohnholz, Jesse

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Reformations Lost and Found

Carina L. Johnson

PART I: SILENCING PLURALITY

Chapter 1. Misremembering Hybridity: The Myth of Goldenstedt

David M. Luebke

Chapter 2. A Luther for Everyone: Irenicism and Orthodoxy at the German Reformation Anniversaries of 1817

Stan Landry

Chapter 3. Challenging Plurality: Wilhelm Horning and the Histories of Alsatian Lutheranism

Anthony J. Steinhoff

Chapter 4. Confessional Histories of Women and the Reformation from the Eightteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Chapter 5. Catholics as Foreign Bodies: The County of Mark as a Protestant Territory in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prussian Historiography

Ralf-Peter Fuchs

PART II: RECOVERING PLURALITY

Chapter 6. A Catholic Genealogy of Protestant Reason

Richard Schaefer

Chapter 7. Fighting or Fostering Plurality? Ernst Salomon Cyprian as a Historian of Lutheranism in the Early Eighteenth Century

Alexander Schunka

Chapter 8. Heresy and the Protestant Enlightenment: Johann Lorenz von Mosheim’s History of Michael Servetus

Michael Printy

Chapter 9. The Great Fire of 1711: Reconceptualizing the Jewish Ghetto and Jewish-Christian Relations in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main

Dean Phillip Bell

PART III: EXCAVATING HISTORIES OF RELIGION

Chapter 10. The Early Roots of Confessional Memory. Martin Luther Burns the Papal Bull on 10 December 1520

Natalie Krentz

Chapter 11. Early Modern German Historians Confront the Reformation’s First Executions

Robert Christman

Chapter 12. Prison Tales: The Miraculous Escape of Stephen Agricola and the Creation of Lutheran Heroes during the Sixteenth Century

Marjorie E. Plummer

Chapter 13. Invented Memories: The ‘Convent of Wesel’ and the Origins of German and Dutch Calvinism

Jesse Spohnholz



PART IV: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING

Chapter 14. ‘Our Misfortune’: National Unity versus Religious Plurality in the Making of Modern Germany

Thomas A. Brady, Jr.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer is the Susan C. Karant-Nunn Chair for Reformation and Early Modern European History in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona. Her publications include From Priest’s Whore to Pastor’s Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation (2012), She is co-editor of Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany: Essays in Honor of H. C. Erik Midelfort (2009), Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany (2019), and Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance: Responses to Religious Pluralism in Reformation Europe (2018).

Luebke, David M.
David M. Luebke is Professor of History at the University of Oregon and has specialized in the history of social protest movements in early modern Germany as well as the formation of religious denominations during and after the Protestant Reformation. His publications include Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia (2016) and, as co-editor, the Spektrum volumes Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (2012) and Mixed Matches: Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment (2014).

Johnson, Carina L.
Carina L. Johnson is Professor of History at Pitzer College and serves as extended faculty at Claremont Graduate University. She specializes in the cultural history of the sixteenth-century Habsburg Empire, particularly in relation to the extra-European world. Her publications include Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans (2011).

Spohnholz, Jesse
Jesse Spohnholz is Professor of History at Washington State University. His research focuses on confessional coexistence, religious exile, gender, and memory of the Reformation  in the early modern Netherlands and northwest Germany. His books include The Tactics of Toleration: A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars (2011) and The Convent of Wesel: The Event That Never Was and the Invention of Tradition (2017).

Carina L. Johnson is Professor of History at Pitzer College and serves as extended faculty at Claremont Graduate University. She specializes in the cultural history of the sixteenth-century Habsburg Empire, particularly in relation to the extra-European world. Her publications include Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans (2011).