Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Crawford Gribben and Graeme Murdock

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Written by an international list of contributors

Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Crawford Gribben and Graeme Murdock

Description

Scholars have associated Calvinism with print and literary cultures, with republican, liberal, and participatory political cultures, with cultures of violence and vandalism, enlightened cultures, cultures of social discipline, secular cultures, and with the emergence of capitalism. Reflecting on these arguments, the essays in this volume recognize that Reformed Protestantism did not develop as a uniform tradition but varied across space and time. The authors demonstrate that multiple iterations of Calvinism developed and impacted upon differing European communities that were experiencing social and cultural transition. They show how these different forms of Calvinism were shaped by their adherents and opponents, and by the divergent political and social contexts in which they were articulated and performed. Recognizing that Reformed Protestantism developed in a variety of cultural settings, this volume analyzes the ways in which it related to the multi-confessional cultural environment that prevailed in Europe after the Reformation.

Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Crawford Gribben and Graeme Murdock

Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Crawford Gribben and Graeme Murdock

Cultures of the Word

1. "Describing Calvinism"
Todd Rester

2. "Calvinism, Conversion and the Science of the self"
Crawford Gribben

3. "Calvinism and Education"
D.G. Hart

4. "Calvin, Calvinism, and Philosophy"
Paul Helm

5. "Calvinism and Literature"
Mark Sweetnam

Visual and Performing Cultures

6. "Calvinism and Theatre in Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic"
Freya Sierhuis and Adrian Streete

7. "Calvinism and Visual Culture: The Art of Evasion"
Angela Vanhaelan

Cultures of Behaviour

8. "Exiles and Calvinist Identity"
Mirjam van Veen

9. "Calvinism and War"
Christine Kooi

10. "Calvinism and Moral Discipline"
Graeme Murdock

Index

Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Crawford Gribben and Graeme Murdock

Author Information

Crawford Gribben teaches history at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of books on the history of puritanism and evangelicalism, including John Owen and English Puritanism.
Graeme Murdock teaches history at Trinity College Dublin. His research has focused on the impact of the Reformation in Central Europe and on Calvinist communities in sixteenth-century France.

Contributors:

Crawford Gribben, Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Print Culture, Trinity College, Dublin

D.G. Hart teaches history at Hillsdale College in Michigan.

Paul Helm is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion at King's College, London.

Christine Kooi is Professor of History at Louisiana State University.

Graeme Murdock is Associate Professor in European History at Trinity College Dublin.

Todd Rester is Associate Professor of Chrch History at Westminster Theological Seminary, PA.

Freya Sierhuis is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of York.

Adrian Streete is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, 1500-1780, at the University of Glasgow.

Mark Sweetnam is Assistant Professor in English with Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin.

Angela Vanhaelan is Professor of Art History at McGill University.

Mirjam van Veen is Professor of Church History at the VU (Vrije Universiteit) Amsterdam.