This book uses hitherto secret sources of the Inquisition and Index to reconstruct the history of Roman censorship in its first, formative years from the standpoint of Galileo's judge.Robert Bellarmin
Revising her doctoral dissertation in Scottish history for the University of Edinburgh (no date noted), Foggie, now an assistant minister in the Church of Scotland, identifies a pattern of continual r
Backus (reformation history, University of Geneva) deals with the problem of how theologians handled ancient, mainly Christian, history in the Reformation era. She argues that history was used through
This volume brings together studies of communities, politics, religion, gender, and social conflict in the Holy Roman Empire, with special reference to the city of Strasbourg, during the late Middle A
This study examines apocalyptic ideologies in Late Medieval and Reformation England. Focussing on Wycliffite vision of the end, this work analyzes Lollard apocalyptic rhetoric and probes the cultural
The 19 articles of this collection were first published in Dutch beginning in 1978. Van Herwaarden (history, U. of Groningen, the Netherlands) has grouped the translated articles into themes; late-med
The first demon to be exorcised, says Zika (history, U. of Melbourne) is the hesitation by historians to document those areas of human experience that cluster around the figure of the demonic, and are
The study examines the activity of the layman Bonagratia in the Franciscan controversy with the Spirituals and in their debate on the poverty of Christ. This detailed study of his writings demonstrate
Revising his 2004 Ph.D. dissertation at the University of London, Black contributes to the history of allegory by focusing on a particular theory of allegory developed by Italian philosopher Giovanni
Although Leiden, the second largest city of the early modern Dutch Republic, officially became Protestant in 1572, it took fifty years before the Reformed Church was completely settled. This book shed
Robbins presents a comprehensive history of early modern La Rochelle, one of the largest and most fractious French Protestant towns. Grounded upon a mass of local serial sources unprecedented in scope
This work comprises a detailed study of Bucer's thinking on ecclesiastical office. The Strasbourg reformer exercised a great influence on Calvin, among others. This exploration does not only contribut
Senses of Touch anatomizes the uniquely human hand as a rhethorical figure for dignity and deformity in early modern culture. It features new interpretations of Michelangelo's fresco of the Creation o
This book is the history of an imaginary people - the Red Jews - in vernacular sources from medieval and early modern Germany. From the twelfth to the seventeenth century, German-language texts repeat
He was to become a cardinal, but along the way d'Ailly earned his keep as an academic and a royal chaplain, acquiring and applying his knowledge about the forces of academia, Church and state in late
Stillman (English, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville) gathers 11 essays, most from a symposium on "Spectacle and Public Performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance" at the Medieval and Renaissance Curricu
German-American scholar of historical theology Posset describes the works of humanists who lived in monasteries around 1500, as distinct from other social groups within the humanist movement. They wer
Roeck (U. of Zurich) offers an overview of bourgeois culture and aspects of everyday life in Germany from the Renaissance through the 18th century, while introducing readers to fundamental research pr
Based on a comprehensive study of penitential handbooks, from the earliest times to the Reformation, this volume records a tradition that examines trade and price from the point of view of sin and pen
