Books by Lee Palmer (University of Wisconsin Wandel

The Reformation and the encounter between Europe and the Western hemisphere have long been treated as separate events. Lee Palmer Wandel brings the two narratives together, casting a history of human difference, of multiple understandings of Christianity, each shaped by the encounter with unknown worlds.

This 1995 book is an effort to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the enterprise of Reformation through an exploration of the meaning of acts of iconoclasm: what they tell us about the role of images in Christianity and about ordinary people's theologies.

The first major study of the understandings of the Eucharist and its liturgy that divided sixteenth century western Christendom. It follows the words of institution - 'this is my body', 'this do', and 'remembrance of me' - as theologians took them up and, from their divergent understandings, set forth distinctive forms of worship.