Protestant Archive
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Animals on Trial
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsThe history of animals in the legal system sketched by Evans is rich and resonant; it provokes profound questions about the evolution of jurisprudential procedure, social and religious organization and notions of culpability and punishment, and funda-mental philosophical questions regarding the place of man within the natural order. -
Understanding terrorism and radicalisation: a network approach
Posted on February 5, 2013 | No CommentsOur most recent work with this model has concentrated on the suppression of a network in the case of the Inquisition and the Cathar heresy in France in the 13th century; and on the spreading of a network in the case of the conversion to Protestantism of England in the mid-16th century. -
The Doctrine of Active Resistance in the Sixteenth Century
Posted on November 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis article will explore the late medieval sources and the sixteenth century context of Continental Reformation theologians’ response to that agony of conscience. -
The Holy Roman Empire, the Schmalkald League, and the Idea of Confessional Nation-Building
Posted on October 12, 2012 | No CommentsRecent research on nationalism draws a fundamental heuristic distinc- tion between political and cultural nationalism. Scholars define the his- torian’s task as the analysis of political and cultural nationalism in each historic context. -
“Partners in the same”: Monastic Devotional Culture in Late Medieval English Literature
Posted on September 9, 2012 | No CommentsTo understand this apparent incongruity, it is, I argue, necessary to interrogate more carefully the continuation of monastic literary culture and its gradual diffusion beyond the walls of the cloister. -
Religious Orders and Growth through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England
Posted on July 17, 2012 | No CommentsThe central hypothesis advanced in the present study is that the cultural virtues emphasized by Weber had a pre-Reformation origin in the religious Order of the Cistercians, a Catholic order which spread across Europe as of the 11th century, and that this monastic order served to stimulate growth during the second millennium by encouraging cultural change in local populations. -
German Hercules: The Impact of Scatology on the Definition of Martin Luther as a Man 1483-1546
Posted on June 6, 2012 | No CommentsMartin Luther’s employment of vulgarity, and specifically scatological vulgarity, in his writings and speech has drawn criticism, embarrassment, and accusations of psychological instability. -
The legacy of the 13th Apostle: origins of the East Christian conceptions of church and state relation
Posted on April 26, 2012 | No CommentsIn this article I wish to query the notion that there is a single Eastern Christian religious political theory, such a one that could be stood in opposition to Catholic medieval or early modern Protestant theories of church-state relations... -
Lollard Theology: A Soteriological Analysis of the English Wycliffite Sermon Cycle
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsPrototestant ideas are evident throughout Wyclif's later works and the flood of Wycliffite tracts and writings which were published in the late 1370's and 80's; but they are most clearly and systematically communicated in the collection of English Wycliffite sermons which were compiled, one sermon for each of the services in the church calendar year, sometime near, or soon after, the end of Wyclif's life. -
The German Reformation and Medieval Thought and Culture
Posted on February 9, 2012 | No CommentsAfter Luther’s death in 1546, it was said, the seeds mostly fell dormant in Germany, where leaders failed to rally around the philosophical core of Luther’s message, retreating into political division and older authoritarian patterns of thought. -
Seeking the Supernatural: The Exorcisms of John Darrell and the Formation of an Orthodox Identity in Early Modern England
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis examines the questions raised by Darrell‘s exorcisms and the ways in which they were shaped by relations of power. I hope that it will shed new light on the ways in which people formed their religious and ideological identities in this pivotal period in English history. -
Medieval English Roodscreens
Posted on January 30, 2012 | No CommentsThe research shows that considerable sums were spent during the later middle ages on the construction, decoration, and maintenance of screens in all churches, from cathedrals and monasteries to parish churches. -
Bogomilism — An Important Precursor of the Reformation
Posted on December 11, 2011 | No CommentsIn the limited space of this paper we are going to look at this infu ence through the Reformation triad John Wyclife (c. 1328—1384), Jan Hus (1369—1415) and Martin Luther (1483—1546). -
The Ghost in Early Modern Protestant Culture: Shifting perceptions of the afterlife, 1450-1700
Posted on October 25, 2011 | No CommentsThe Ghost in Early Modern Protestant Culture:Shifting perceptions of the afterlife, 1450-1700 McKeever, Amanda Jane PhD Thesis, Philosophy, University of Sussex, September 27, (2010) Abstract My thesis seeks to address... -
Utopia Pre-Empted: Kett’s Rebellion, Commoning, and the Hysterical Sublime
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsUtopia Pre-Empted: Kett’s Rebellion, Commoning, and the Hysterical Sublime Holstun, Jim (State University of New York, Buffalo) Historical Materialism, 16 (2008) Abstract In 1549, on Mousehold Heath, outside Norwich, the... -
An Introduction to Olympia Morata, a Forgotten, Feminist Voice from Sixteenth Century Italy
Posted on September 8, 2011 | No CommentsAn Introduction to Olympia Morata, a Forgotten, Feminist Voice from Sixteenth Century Italy Webb, Val (Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN) Sea Changes, Vol.1 (2001) Abstract I met Olympia Morata in the... -
The Alphabetum catholicorum of Arnaldus of Villanova, an edition and study
Posted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe Alphabetum catholicorum of Arnaldus of Villanova, an edition and study Burnam, Hope Lampert (university of Toronto) PhD Thesis, University of Toronto (1996) Abstract On the title page to the... -
Music Associated with Santiago and the Pilgrimage
Posted on August 2, 2011 | No CommentsMusic Associated with Santiago and the Pilgrimage Pederson,E.O. Perspectives on the Camino: A collection of essays on the Camino (2007) Abstract The Medieval Period The tradition of pilgrimage to Santiago... -
“A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty”: The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal
Posted on July 26, 2011 | No Comments“A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty”: The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal Piccirillo, Anthony Carmen (Georgetown University) Senior Honors Thesis in History, Georgetown University,... -
New online version of The Acts and Monuments by John Foxe released
Posted on July 19, 2011 | No CommentsA new interactive version of The Acts and Monuments by John Foxe has been published online by the University of Sheffield. This work, available at http://www.johnfoxe.org, is an ecclesiastical history... -
The Polemical use of the Albigensian Crusade during the French Wars of Religion
Posted on July 18, 2011 | No CommentsThe Polemical use of the Albigensian Crusade during the French Wars of Religion Racaut, Luc French History 13, 3 (1999) Abstract From the outset of the Reformation, Catholic authors had sought... -
The Eastern Schism and the Division of Europe
Posted on April 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe Eastern Schism and the Division of Europe Ledit, Joseph S.J., Theological Studies, Vol.12:4 (1951) Abstract Now that Europe has been cut in two, and its two fragments have become... -
Emperor Charles IV (1346–1378) as the Architect of Local Religion in Prague
Posted on March 21, 2011 | No CommentsThis essay takes a different path through the religious culture of fourteenth-century Bohemia and of Prague, in particular. -
The Apocalypse and Religious Propaganda: Illustrations by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach The Elder
Posted on January 13, 2011 | No CommentsThe Apocalypse and Religious Propaganda: Illustrations by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach The Elder Hartmann, Denise Alexandra (University of Toronto) Marginalia, Vol. 11, (October 2010) Abstract Apocalypse imagery was highly... -
“Orthodoxy versus Radicalism: Authorial Agenda in Two English Renaissance Witchcraft Texts”
Posted on January 4, 2011 | No Comments“Orthodoxy versus Radicalism: Authorial Agenda in Two English Renaissance Witchcraft Texts” Dorrington, Jesse Hortulus, Vol. 4, No. 1, (2008) Abstract This article focuses on two early modern English witchcraft texts, The Examination...
