The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations

Edited by Ulinka Rublack

Oxford Handbooks

Takes a global approach to the usually Europe-centric study of the Protestant Reformations
Brings together contributions from international scholars in the fields of theology, intellectual thought, and social and cultural history
Offers up-to-date perspectives on key themes, such as Martin Luther and the Swiss reformations
Addresses many themes at the cutting edge of scholarship, such as the history of emotions, the history of knowledge, and global history

The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations

Edited by Ulinka Rublack

Description

This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism, and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestant practices which has been published so far. The volume brings together international scholars in the fields of theology, intellectual thought, and social and cultural history. Contributions focus on key themes, such as Martin Luther or the Swiss reformations, offering an up-to-date perspective on current scholarly debates, but they also address many new themes at the cutting edge of scholarship, with particularly emphasis on the history of emotions, the history of knowledge, and global history.

This new approach opens up fresh perspectives onto important questions: how did Protestant ways of conceiving the divine shape everyday life, ideas of the feminine or masculine, commercial practices, politics, notions of temporality, or violence? The aim of this Handbook is to bring to life the vitality of Reformation ideas. In these ways, the Handbook stresses that the Protestant Reformations in all their variety, and with their important "radical" wings, must be understood as one of the lasting long-term historical transformations which changed Europe and, subsequently, significant parts of the world.

The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations

Edited by Ulinka Rublack

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1. Introduction, Ulinka Rublack
Part I: The New Theology
2. Explaining Evil and Grace, Christopher Ocker
3. The Nature of Spiritual Experience, Alec Ryrie
4. Reforming Time, Robin Barnes
5. Political Obedience, Glenn Burgess
Part II: Geographies and Varieties of the Reformations
6. Geographies of the Protestant Reformation, Graeme Murdoch
7. The Bohemian Reformations, Howard Louthan
8. Luther and Lutheranism, Thomas Kaufmann
9. The Swiss Reformations: Movements, Settlements, and Re-Imagination, 1520-1720, Randolph Head
10. The Radicals, C. Scott Dixon
11. Calvin and Reformed Protestantism, Mack P. Holt
12. The English, Scottish and Irish Reformations, Felicity Heal
13. Protestantism in the Age of Catholic Renewal, Philip Soergel
14. Protestantism and non-Christian Religions, Andrew Gow & Jeremy Fradkin
15. Outsiders, Dissenters and Competing Visions of Reform, Howard Hotson
16. Pietism, Ulrike Gleixner
17. Protestantism Outside Europe, Mark Haberlein
Part III: Communicating the Reformations
18. Print Workshops and Markets, Andrew Pettegree
19. The Word, Helmut Puff
20. The Reformation of Liturgy, Susan Karant Nunn
21. An "Epistolary Reformation": The Role and Significance of Letters in the First Century of the Protestant Reformation, Mark Greengrass
Part IV: Sites, Institutions, and Society
22. University Scholars of the Reformation, Michael Heyd
23. Education and Understandings of Social Hierarchy, Charlotte Methuen
24. Legal Courts, Joel Harrington
25. Rural Society, Beat Kumin
26. Civic Religions, Guido Marnef
27. The European Nobilities and the Reformation, Ronald Asch
Part V: Identities and Cultural Meanings of the Reformations
28. Explaining Change, Craig Koslofsky
29. Visual and Material Culture, Bridget Heal
30. Music, Christopher Boyd-Brown
31. The Body in the Reformations, Herman Roodenburg
32. Sexual Difference, Kathleen M. Crowther
33. The Natural and Supernatural, Ute Lotz-Heumann
34. Commerce and Consumption, Christine R. Johnson
35. Natural Philosophy, Alisha Rankin
Part VI: Assessing the Reformations
36. Comparisons and Consequences in Global Perspective, 1500-1750, Merry Wiesner-Hanks
37. History and Memory, Bruce Gordon

The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations

Edited by Ulinka Rublack

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Author Information

Ulinka Rublack, Professor of Early Modern European History, St John's College, Cambridge University

Ulinka Rublack is a Professor at the University of Cambridge and has published widely on early modern European history as well as approaches to history. She has edited, most recently, The Oxford Concise Companion to History (2011). Her monographs include The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother (2015); Reformation Europe (2005); The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (1999); and Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (2010), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize.

Contributors:

Ronald Asch, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat
Robin Barnes, emeritus, Davidson College
Christopher Boyd-Brown, Boston University
Glenn Burgess, University of Hull
Kathleen M. Crowther, University of Oklahoma
C. Scott Dixon, Queen's University, Belfast
Jeremy Fradkin, Johns Hopkins University
Ulrike Gleixner, Herzog August Bibliothek
Bruce Gordon, Yale Divinity School
Andrew Gow, University of Alberta
Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield
Mark Haberlein, Otto-Friedrich-Universitat Bamberg
Joel Harrington, Vanderbilt University
Randolph Head, University of California, Riverside
Bridget Heal, University of St Andrews
Felicity Heal, Jesus College, University of Oxford
Mack P. Holt, George Mason University
Howard Hotson, St Anne's College, University of Oxford
Christine R. Johnson, Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas Kaufmann, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen
Craig Koslofsky, University of Illinois
Beat Kumin, University of Warwick
Ute Lotz-Heumann, University of Arizona
Michael Heyd, Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Howard Louthan, University of Minnesota
Guido Marnef, Universiteit Antwerpen
Charlotte Methuen, University of Glasgow
Graeme Murdock, Trinity College Dublin
Susan Karant Nunn, University of Arizona
Christopher Ocker, San Francisco Theological Seminary
Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews
Helmut Puff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alisha Rankin, Tufts University
Herman Roodenburg, University of Amsterdam
Ulinka Rublack, St John's College, Cambridge
Alec Ryrie, Durham University
Philip Soergel, University of Maryland
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations

Edited by Ulinka Rublack

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Reviews and Awards

"The collection represents a substantial and rich resource of writings from a panel of essayists drawn from Europe, the British Isles and America." -- Stephen Copson , Baptist Quarterly

"While this wonderous book gauges long unrecognized eighteenth-century transactions between British and German writers, it's intellectual and imaginative scope is indeed "exorbitant"" -- Jayne Lewis, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

"The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations is a substantial and comprehensive volume" -- Christine Love-Rodgers, University of Edinburgh, Reference Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations

Edited by Ulinka Rublack

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Mapping Reformation Europe

Maps convey simple historical narratives very clearly--but how useful are simple stories about the past? Many history textbooks and studies of the Reformation include some sort of map that claims to depict Europe's religious divisions in the sixteenth century.

Posted on October 3, 2017

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