The Reformation of Feeling
Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany
Susan C. Karant-Nunn
Reviews and Awards
"After having devoured this engrossing and magisterial study, one truly must wonder why Susan Karant-Nunn is the first to take up the topic of the emotional cultures that emerged from the various Reform movements. Meticulously researched and superbly synthesized, The Reformation of Feeling is a landmark study in Reformation Studies--a stepping stone to a cultural history of the Reformation."--Helmut Puff, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
"A valiant, even daring, expedition into the spiritual world underneath the theological debates, colloquies, political schemes, wars, and treaties that in the past have filled the pages of most histories of the German reformation."--The Catholic Historical Review
"The Reformation of Feeling emphasizes the relative radicalism of the sixteenth-century Reformed Protestant tradition... This valuable book raises questions about which disciplines and types of sources to privilege when trying to write the history of emotions five centuries ago." --The Journal of Interdisciplinary History