Books by Michael J. Halvorson

Heinrich Heshusius (1556-97) became a leading church superintendent and polemicist during the early age of Lutheran orthodoxy. Offering an introduction to Heshusius' writings and ideas, this volume explores the wider world of late-sixteenth-century German Lutheranism in which he lived and worked.

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; and as shaped by art, ritual, charity, or devotional practices.