Cultural shifts and ritual transformations in Reformation Europe : : essays in honor of Susan C. Karant-Nunn / / edited by Victoria Christman, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer.

This volume honors the work of a scholar who has been active in the field of early modern history for over four decades. In that time, Susan Karant-Nunn’s work challenged established orthodoxies, pushed the envelope of historical genres, and opened up new avenues of research and understanding, which...

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Superior document:Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; Volume 223
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Sense,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 223.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Prologue
  • James J. Blakeley and Robert J. Christman
  • part 1: The Early Reformation in Saxony
  • 1 Simultaneously Bride and Whore: Martin Luther, the Bride of Christ, and the Limits of Hyperbole
  • David M. Whitford
  • 2 Luther and Gender
  • Lyndal Roper
  • 3 High Noon on the Road to Damascus: A Reformation Showdown and the Role of Horses in Lucas Cranach the Younger’s Conversion of Paul (1549)
  • Pia F. Cuneo
  • 4 Aging and Retirement of Former Nuns after the Reforming of the Convent in Ernestine Saxony
  • Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
  • part 2: Devotional Ritual and Popular Religion
  • 5 Streitkultur Meets the Culture of Persuasion: The Flensburg Disputation of 1529
  • Amy Nelson Burnett
  • 6 How to Make a Holy Well: Local Practices and Official Responses in Early Modern Germany
  • Ute Lotz-Heumann
  • 7 Distinguishing between Saints and Spirits. Or How to Tell the Difference between the Virgin Mary and Mary the Ghost?
  • Kathryn A. Edwards
  • part 3: Cultural History and the Religious and Political Self
  • 8 Advice from a Lutheran Politique: Ambassador David Ungnad’s Circular Letter to the Austrian Estates, 1576
  • James Tracy
  • 9 Emblematic Strategies in the Devotions and Dynasty of Dorothea, Princess of Anhalt
  • Mara R. Wade
  • 10 “Rebellious Sister?” Mary of Hungary, Queen-Regent of the Netherlands, 1531–1555
  • Victoria Christman
  • part 4: Culture in Motion: Emotion, Space, and Gender
  • 11 Compassion in Punishment: The Visual Evidence in Sixteenth-Century Depictions of Calvary
  • Charles Zika
  • 12 Above the Skin: Cloth and the Body’s Boundary in Early Modern Nuremberg
  • Amy Newhouse
  • 13 Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Imagery: A Contribution to Early Modern Gender History
  • Helmut Puff
  • 14 ‘One Must Speak the Truth Rather than Staying Silent’: Women, Scandal, and the Genevan Consistory
  • Karen E. Spierling
  • Epilogue: A Festival of Festschriften
  • Merry Wiesner-Hanks
  • Index.