Books in the St Andrews Studies in Reformation History series

This study hopes to contribute to the larger question of why France remained a Catholic country by putting forward what it argues was a determining factor in this loyalty - the large body of Catholic literature offering persuasive arguments to the Reformation debate.

Examines Tudor views on the senses in order to create a new lens through which to explore the English Reformation. This title begins with an examination of pre-Reformation beliefs and practices, establishing intellectual views on the senses in fifteenth-century England, and situating them within their contemporary philosophical tensions.

Dr Georg Eder rose from humble origins to hold a number of high positions at Vienna University and the city's Habsburg court between 1552 and 1584. This book examines his position as a Catholic in the predominantly Protestant Vienna of his day and his survival as an advocate of Catholic reform, largely through the protection of Habsburgs' rivals.

Drawing on the municipal archives of 11 French provincial towns and other sources, this book explores the links between local and national politics during the Wars of Religion of the later 16th century. It argues that the response of the French towns to the challenge of heresy, and later the Catholic League, was conditioned by local circumstances.

Places John Day in the context of the sixteenth-century printing industry, and examines his disputed origins and establishment as a London printer. This book discusses his Elizabethan career, together with the most significant works he printed, and his connections with the Stranger communities in London.

Explores how Luther and his colleagues adopted traditional themes and motifs even as they transformed them to accord with their conviction that Christians could be certain of their salvation. This study shows how Luther's colleagues drew on his writings, his teaching on dying, and other writings including his sermons on the sacraments.

The essays in this festschrift volume have been arranged under two main thematic headings: Reformation theology and the medieval heritage, and the spiritual life of families.

Immanuel Tremellius (1510-1580) was one of the most significant and important theological scholars of the Reformation. Following his conversion to Christianity from Judaism, he rose to prominence in the mid-sixteenth century as a professor of Hebrew and Old Testament studies. This book studies Tremellius' life and works.

'Moderation' in Reformation Europe was in short supply. Yet numerous individuals and regimes found themselves forced into positions of moderation as they were caught in the crossfire of confessional debate. Presenting individual case studies and national attempts at conciliation, this collection of essays outlines various approaches towards understanding moderation in Reformation Europe and examines the way moderation was perceived and manipulated in an age of confessional conflict.

The relationship between music and religious identity in Augsburg on the eve of the Thirty Years War is the focus for this book. How did 'Catholic' and 'Protestant' repertories diverge from one another? What was the impetus for this differentiation, and what effect did the circulation and performance of this music have on Augsburg's religious culture? These questions call for a new, cross-disciplinary approach to the music history of this era, one which moves beyond traditional accounts of the lives and works of composers, or histories of polyphonic genres. Using a wide variety of archival and musical documents, Alexander Fisher offers a holistic view of this musical landscape, examining aspects of composition, circulation, performance, and cultural meaning.

Originally available only in Dutch, this text provides an English speaking audience with a detailed account of William's role in the Dutch Revolt that reflects the vast amount of scholarship undertaken in the field of European political and religious history.

All the reforming mid-Tudor regimes used historical discourses to support the religious changes which they introduced and the Reformation as a historical event was written and rewritten by various historians to offer legitimation for policies. This study examines these histories.

Highlights different paths that Calvinism followed as it took root in Western Europe and which allowed it to develop within fifty years into dominant Protestant confession. This collection adds to the picture of a flexible Calvinism that could adapt to meet specific local conditions and needs in order to allow the Reformed tradition to thrive.

This study investigates the moral policies of both Church and State in the age of Counter-Reformation confessionalization in Venice. Examining ecclesiastical and civil lawsuits, the author shows how central sexual morality was to the patriarchal society of 16th- and 17th-century Venice.

Drawing together many case studies from diverse parts of Europe, this title explores the processes involved when groups of differing confessions had to live in close proximity - sometimes grudgingly, but often with a benign pragmatism that stood in opposition to the will of their rulers.

This is a listing of all religious printing in French between 1511 and 1551. Also included are lists of printers, arranged both according to city and alphabetically.

"The Whole Book of Psalms" was one of the most published and widely read books of early modern England, running to over 1000 editions between the 1570s and the early eighteenth century. This book is the study of it, and the critical examination of the texts of which it comprises.

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.

John Merbecke (c 1505 - c 1585) is the composer of the first musical setting of the English liturgy, "The booke of Common Praier Noted". Situating Merbecke's work within a broader intellectual and religio-cultural context of Tudor England, this book challenges the studies of Merbecke based on the narrow theological approach to the Reformation.

Reginald Pole (1500-1558), cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury, was at the centre of reform controversies in the mid 16th century. His voluminous correspondence forms a major source for historians. This work makes this vast body of material accessible to the researcher, summarising each letter together with necessary identification and comment.

Provides an explanation of the processes which went into the selection and creation of bishops during the early years of Elizabeth I's reign, when the conduct of ecclesiastical affairs was dominated by Cecil and his allies.

Carlos M.N. Eire's deeply innovative publications have helped to shape new fields of study of the Reformation, intertwining social, intellectual, cultural, and religious history to reveal how, lived beliefs had real and profound implications for social and political life in early modern Europe. Reflecting these themes.

Reginald Pole (1500-1558) was never a man of few words, which is reflected by the enormity of his correspondence. Through these volumes, Thomas F. Meyer aims to provide the reader with the necessary information to interpret Pole's correspondence.

For hundreds of years, the biblical story of the Curse of Ham was marshalled as a justification of serfdom, slavery and human bondage. According to the myth, having seen his father Noah naked, Ham's is cursed to have his descendants be forever slaves. This book explores the Curse of Ham in its Reformation context.

This text discusses the political history of the Scottish Church in the reign of James VI (1567-1625). It offers a new perspective on the Reformed Kirk during the crucial period in its development. It is an examination of relations between Kirk and State based on contemporary sources.

Drawn from a conference held in 1995, these essays cover the history of early modern Europe. Topics discussed include the Reformation in eastern and central Europe, Protestant literature in Bohemian private libraries around 1600, and morals courts in rural Berne during the early modern period.

This study looks at the perception of the Franciscan order in the 15th and 16th centuries. This order became the focus of attack in a pamphlet war waged against it in 1523 by converts to the Reformation. One of this war's main participants was von Gunzburg, who is studied here in depth.

The author casts a sympathetic eye over forms of belief that would have incited the orthodox of both sides, in this book on the Reformation. Subjects include the congregation of Windesheim and its influence on Protestantism, the Protestant attack on popular culture, and marriage and the family.