Nordic Witchcraft in Transition: Impotence, Heresy and Diabolism in 14th-century Bergen
Within the orbit of witchcraft, what is the relationship between sexuality, heresy, and diabolism?
The Holy Roman Empire, the Schmalkald League, and the Idea of Confessional Nation-Building
Recent 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
To 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.
Does Michelangelo’s poetic veil shroud a secret Luther?
The thesis poses a question derived from an unlikely nexus of two prominent figures of the Renaissance and the Reformation: the artist whose creative abilities ostensibly dominate the Vatican and religious art, juxtaposed with the rebel who splintered the dominance of Roman Catholicism.
Hegel’s Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages
An essay of this kind is bound to provoke disagreements.
Religious Orders and Growth through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England
The 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.
A Difference in Sixteenth-Century French Violence
This article considers the implications of both Catholic and Calvinist types of violence during the Reformation of mid-sixteenth-century France.
Lollard Theology: A Soteriological Analysis of the English Wycliffite Sermon Cycle
Prototestant 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
After 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.
The City of York in the time of Henry VIII
During this period, the role of the landed aristocracy was changing. With the creation of a professional standing army, in which soldiers were paid a wage, and the use of foreign mercenaries (think of the Swiss Guard), the traditional military function of the nobility receded.
Medieval English Roodscreens
The 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.
The Principled Resignation of Thomas More
More often referred to himself in a humble way that did not accurately reflect the incredible impact of his achievements both as a great common lawyer and as the greatest chancellor in the history of England.
Bogomilism: An Important Precursor of the Reformation
Our particular task here is to give proof of the presence of Bogomil and Cathar ideas and motivations in the works of the brightest reformation triad: John Wycliffe — Jan Hus — Martin Luther, by means of facts, documented links and associations.
The Ghost in Early Modern Protestant Culture: Shifting perceptions of the afterlife, 1450-1700
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Utopia Pre-Empted: Kett’s Rebellion, Commoning, and the Hysterical Sublime
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An Introduction to Olympia Morata, a Forgotten, Feminist Voice from Sixteenth Century Italy
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Power Through Purity: The Virgin Martyrs and Women’s Salvation in
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Feminine and masculine in the images of power. A study of the changes in visual political symbolism in Sweden ca. 1350-1600
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The Alphabetum catholicorum of Arnaldus of Villanova, an edition and study
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Music Associated with Santiago and the Pilgrimage
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The Polemical use of the Albigensian Crusade during the French Wars of Religion
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Concepts of Childhood: What We Know and Where We Might Go
They have explored such issues, among others, as the varieties of European household structure; definitions of the stages of life; childbirth, wetnursing, and the role of the midwife; child abandonment and the foundling home; infanticide and its prosecution; apprenticeship, servitude, and fostering; the evolution of schooling; the consequences of religious diversification; and the impact of gender
The Effects of King Sigismund’s Hussite Wars on the Art of War
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Changing Gender Relation in Medieval and Early Modern Iceland: The Role of Canon Law According to Court Case Narratives
In this paper I shall not primarily discuss this legal regulations rather give some ideas of how the law was used (and shaped on a textual level) at the local courts. Examples will be taken from several court case narrations.
The Eastern Schism and the Division of Europe
The 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…