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Heal, Bridget. The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648

Heal, Bridget. The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 338 pp. $99.00 hardcover. Bridget Heal's work is a thorough case study of Reformation and Counter Reformation Marian piety in three representative cities: Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Cologne....

Tags: Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Reformation

Research articles 2009-01-01

The age of magicians: periodization in the history of European magic.(Report)

John Maynard Keynes once described Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps the greatest figure of the scientific revolution, as being "not the first of the age of reason" but "the last of the magicians." (1) Keynes was commenting, among other things, on Newton's fascination with alchemy and the...

Tags: Church, Culture, De, Early, English, Enlightenment, History, John, Magic, Martin, Medieval, Moore, Oxford University Press, Press, Protestant, Reformation, Religion, Richard, Roman, Science, Spanish, Thomas, Western

Research articles 2008-06-22

Shaping superstition in late medieval England.(Report)

Superstition occupied an ambiguous place in late medieval England. While elsewhere in fifteenth-century Europe the clergy increasingly reviled superstitions in everyday practices as the fearful portal allowing the devil's entry into human affairs, this certainty faltered in England. (1) The English clergy never ignored beliefs and...

Tags: Aquinas, CONCLUSIONS, Dialogue, Early, English, God, H., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Luther, Medieval, Norwich, Oxford University Press, Press, Reformation, Richard, Saint, Thomas, William, York

Research articles 2008-06-22

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EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS Bonarelli, Guidubaldo. Phyllis of Scyros. Ed. and trans. Nicolas J. Perella. New York: Italica Press, 2007. xxviii + 304 pp. bibl. $25. ISBN: 978-0-934977-61-6. Bruno, Giordano. De la causa, principio et eno/Uber die Ursache, das Prinzip und das Eine. Ed. and trans. Thomas Leinkauf. Giordiano...

Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, David, De, E., Ed, F., G., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Les, Letters, Life, Maria, Medieval, Memory, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Reformation, Renaissance, Rome, Strasbourg, Susan, Trans, Walter

Research articles 2007-12-22

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Alazard, Florence, and Frank La Brasca, La Papaute a la Renaissance. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2007. Alfonsi, Petrus, Dialogue against the Jews. Translated by Irven M. Resnick. The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation 8. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. Alvis, Robert E., Religion...

Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Church, Culture, D., David, E., Early, F., Faith, God, History, J., James, John, Life, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Politics, Reformation, Routledge, S., Theology, Thomas, William

Research articles 2007-09-01

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Albanese, Catherine L., America: Religions and Religion, 4th ed. Belmont, Calif.: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007. Albanese, Catherine L., A Republic of Mind and Spirit. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Artigas, Mariano, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martinez, Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902. Medicine, Science,...

Tags: A., American, C., Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Church, Culture, David, Grand, History, J., James, John, L., Oxford University Press, Press, Princeton University, R., Reformation, Religion, Robert, Society, Yale University

Research articles 2007-03-01

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EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Aretino, Pietro. Aretino's Dialogues. The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library. Trans. Raymond Rosenthal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. vii + 397 pp. chron. bibl. $60 cl, $29.95 pbk. ISBN: 0-8020-9004-4 cl, 0-8020-4890-0 pbk. Beze, Theodore de. Satyres chrestiennes de la cuisine papale. Textes litteraires...

Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Catherine, David, De, E., Ed, Education, English, Family, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Kemp, La, Les, Letters, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Politics, Reformation, Rome, Science, Susan

Research articles 2006-06-22

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EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Barker, Roberta, ed. Common Conditions [?1576]. The Malone Society Reprints 168. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Reprint. xxx + 56 pp. append. illus. $49.95. ISBN: 0-19-729044-2. Bathe, William. A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song. Ed. Kevin C. Karnes. Music Theory...

Tags: A., Age, Cambridge University Press, Catherine, Church, Court, Criticism, Culture, David, De, Early, Ed, English, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, La, Labor, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Reformation, Rome, Science, Thomas, Trans, Vol

Research articles 2005-12-22

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EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Castellion, Sebastien. Dialogues Sacres: Dialogi Sacri Premier Livre. Eds. David Amherdt and Yves Giraud. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2004. 264 pp. index. append. gloss. bibl. [euro]42. ISBN: 2-600-00930-2. Ceresara, Paride. Rime. Fondazione Banca Agricola Mantovana. Biblioteca Mantovana 1. Ed. Andrea Comboni. Florence: Leo S....

Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Court, Culture, David, De, E., Early, Ed, English, G., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, La, Leo, Les, Life, Maria, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Paul, Poetry, Politics, Reformation, Simon, Susan, T.

Research articles 2005-09-22

The Scottish Witchcraft Act

Few acts of the Scottish parliament can have had such deadly consequences as the following, passed on June 4, 1563: Anentis Witchcraftis. ITEM Forsamekill as the Quenis Majestie and thre Estatis in this present Parliament being informit, that...

Tags: Catholic, Clark, Early, East, English, God, H., History, James, John, Julian, King, Kirk, Miller, Oxford University Press, Protestant, Protestants, Reformation, SATAN, Thomas, VI, Witchcraft

Research articles 2005-03-01

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EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Bodnar, Edward William and Clive Foss, eds. and trans. Later Travels. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 10. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. xxii + 459 pp. + 10 b/w pls. index. illus. map. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-00758-1. Chappuys, Gabriel. Les Facetieuses Journees....

Tags: Authority, Cambridge University Press, Charles, David, De, Early, Ed, English, Florence, Gender, God, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, L., La, Leo, Les, Margaret, Martin, Medieval, Michel, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Pierre, Reformation, Rome, S., Thomas, W., William

Research articles 2004-06-22

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EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Alberti, Leon Battista. Momus. (The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 8.) Ed. Virginia Brown. Trans. Sarah M. Knight. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. xxv + 407 pp. index. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-67400754-9. Belleau, Remy. CEuvres poetiques. (Vol. 5, Odes d'Anacreon [1573-1574], Amours et...

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Research articles 2003-12-22

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EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Andreini, Isabella. La Mirtilla: A Pastoral. Ed. Julie D. Campbell. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance, 2002. xxx + 106 pp. bibl. $26. ISBN: 0-86698-284-1. Bruno, Giordano. The Cabala of Pegasus. Trans. Sidney Sondergard and Madison U. Sowell. New Haven: Yale University Press,...

Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, David, De, Early, Ed, English, F., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, Jews, John, King, La, Lang, Leo, Les, Life, Maria, Medieval, Nicholas, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Pp, Reformation, Renaissance, Science, Susan, Things, Touch, Trans, Yale University

Research articles 2003-06-22

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EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: di Lasso, Orlando. The Complete Motets 2: Sacrae Cantiones (Nuremberg, 1562). Ed. James B. Erb. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2002. xliii + 188 PP. + 4 b/w pls. tbls. $85. ISBN: 0-89579-511-6. Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio. Trans. Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander. London and New York:...

Tags: A., Alexander, Cambridge University Press, Church, Court, Culture, David, De, Early, Ed, English, History, House, II, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, La, Les, Maria, Medieval, Nicholas, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Politics, Pp, Reformation, Rome, Routledge, S., Theology, Thomas

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BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE: Simonsohn, Shlomo. The Jews in Sicily Vol. 3: 1392-1414. Boston and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001. xii + 560 pp. index, gloss. $234. ISBN: 90-04-12168-4. Tranchedini, Nicodemo. Vocabolario italiano-latino: edizione del primo lessico dal volgare: secolo XV. Ed. Federico Pelle. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2001....

Tags: Cambridge University Press, Culture, Dante, David, De, Early, Ed, English, Florence, INTRODUCTION, James, John, La, Martin, Medieval, Peter, Politics, Preaching, Press, Reformation, Renaissance, Richard, Roman, S., Venice, William

Research articles 2002-09-22

Weak Christians, Backsliders, and Carnal Gospelers: Assurance of Salvation and the Pastoral Origins of Puritan Practical Divinity in the 1580s

The great pearl of Reformed piety, assurance of salvation, eluded Richard Rogers, Essex presbyterian activist, in the early 1580s. Rogers "languished long" in "unsettledness in my life" "untill wofull experience" drove him to search out a more reliable method of obtaining a steady assurance. He decided that only a steady,...

Tags: A., Calvin, Christians, Church, Early, English, Faith, God, Grace, Hooker, John, Lake, Michael, Oxford University Press, Peter, Press, Reformation, Richard, Spirit, Thomas, William, Works

Research articles 2001-09-01

MARGERY KEMPE AND LOLLARDY

One of the many puzzles surrounding the life and career of the fifteenth century mystic Margery Kempe is the fact that she was accused several times of being a Lollard, one of the heretical followers of John Wyclif. Kempe was not a Lollard by any stretch of the imagination. She...

Tags: Church, English, God, Hudson, John, LOLLARDY, Oxford University Press, Reformation, St. Paul, Thomas, York

Research articles 1996-01-01

Additional Resources

The Confessionalization of Humanism in Reformation Germany

Erika Rummel, The Confessionalization of Humanism in Reformation Germany. (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 211pp. $45. ISBN: 0-19-513712-4. In her introduction Erika Rummel notes that, while much has been written on how humanism influenced the Reformation, little has been done on how the Reformation...

Tags: Oxford University Press

Research articles 2001-12-22

Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany.(Book review)

Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany. By Amy Leonard. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 218. $45.00.) In its rejection of celibacy and the monastic life, Reformation theology eliminated women's opportunity for an independent religious life and...

Tags: University of Chicago, women

Research articles 2007-03-22

KPMG SAYS AUSTRALIAN CO'S NEED BOARD REFORMATION.

SYDNEY, April 15 Asia Pulse - Business advisory firm KPMG said today board reformation needed to continue even though the corporate governance guidelines introduced by the Australian Stock Exchange were a good first step. SYDNEY, April 15 Asia Pulse - Business advisory firm KPMG...

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Research articles 2003-04-15