Medievalists.net » Reformation http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Quiz: Martin Luther And The Protestant Reformation http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/30/quiz-martin-luther-and-the-protestant-reformation/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/30/quiz-martin-luther-and-the-protestant-reformation/#comments Sat, 30 May 2015 16:55:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58551 Ten questions to see your knowledge of this time period where beliefs and faith in the Christian church changed dramatically.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/29/session-47-medieval-prosopography-ii/feed/ 0 Shadow of the Sword (The Headsman) http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/21/shadow-of-the-sword-the-headsman/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/21/shadow-of-the-sword-the-headsman/#comments Thu, 21 May 2015 16:38:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58331 Nikolaj Coster-Waldau gives us a sympathetic Headsman in Reformation Austria, in the 'Shadow of the Sword (The Headsman)'.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/21/shadow-of-the-sword-the-headsman/feed/ 0 King’s sister, queen of dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and her evangelical network http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/07/kings-sister-queen-dissent-marguerite-navarre-1492-1549-evangelical-network/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/07/kings-sister-queen-dissent-marguerite-navarre-1492-1549-evangelical-network/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:10:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53957 This study reconstructs the previously unknown history of the most important dissident group within France before the French Reformed Church formed during the 1550s.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/07/kings-sister-queen-dissent-marguerite-navarre-1492-1549-evangelical-network/feed/ 0 Does a Reformation End?: Rethinking Religious Simulation in Sixteenth-Century Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:08:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53493 A paper examining the Italian Reformation.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/feed/ 0 10 Things to See at Southwark Cathedral http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/24/10-things-see-southwark-cathedral/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/24/10-things-see-southwark-cathedral/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:23:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52790 My 10 favourite things about Southwark Cathedral.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/24/10-things-see-southwark-cathedral/feed/ 0 A monastic landscape: The Cistercians in medieval Leinster http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/23/monastic-landscape-cistercians-medieval-leinster/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/23/monastic-landscape-cistercians-medieval-leinster/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:56:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52776 This study endeavours to discuss the Cistercian monasteries of Leinster with regard to their physical location in the landscape, the agricultural contribution of the monks to the broader social and economic world and the interaction between the cloistered monks and the secular world.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/23/monastic-landscape-cistercians-medieval-leinster/feed/ 0 Boundaries in the making – Historiography and the isolation of late medieval Bohemia http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/boundaries-making-historiography-isolation-late-medieval-bohemia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/boundaries-making-historiography-isolation-late-medieval-bohemia/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2014 15:38:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51374 This paper deals with an episode of early 15th century Bohemian history. During the so-called Hussite wars, a coalition of Catholic powers tried to establish a far-reaching blockade on trade and commerce against the kingdom of Bohemia, which then was considered to be a hotbed of heresy, and to be rebellious against its legitimate ruler and the papal church.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/boundaries-making-historiography-isolation-late-medieval-bohemia/feed/ 0 (Re)casting the Past: The Cloisters and Medievalism http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:35:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51257 In this essay, I focus on a variety of texts printed using Anglo-Saxon type between 1566 and 1623 in an effort to explore the use of Anglo-Saxon typeface in the early modern period as the use of the Old English language progressed from polemical truncheon to historiographical instrument.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/feed/ 0 John of Gaunt and John Wyclif http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/14/john-gaunt-john-wyclif/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/14/john-gaunt-john-wyclif/#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:50:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50388 Historians have always been somewhat puzzled at the alliance of two such men as John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster and third son of Edward III, and John Wyclif, controversialist and reformer.

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