Religion and superstition in Reformation Europe

Herausgeber: Naphy, William G.; Parish, Helen

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Produktbeschreibung

What, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was 'superstition'? Where might it be found, and how might it be countered? How was the term used, and how effective a weapon was it in the assault on traditional religion?. The ease with which accusations of 'superstition' slipped into the language of Reformation debate has ensured that one of the most fought over terms in the history of early modern popular culture, especially religious culture, is also one of the most difficult to define. Offers a novel approach to the issue, based upon national and regional studies, and examinations of attitudes to prophets, ghosts, saints and demonology, alongside an analysis of Catholic responses to the Reformation and the apparent presence of 'superstition' in the reformed churches. Challenges the assumptions that Catholic piety was innately superstitious, while Protestantism was rational, and suggests that the early modern concept of 'superstition' needs more careful treatment by historians. Demands that the terminology and presuppositions of historical discourse on the Reformation be altered to remove lingering sectarian polemic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9780719061585
• ISBN-10: 071906158X
• Artikelnr.: 22486421

Autorenporträt

Helen Parish is Lecturer in History at the University of Reading. William G. Naphy is Senior Lecturer in History and Head of Department at the University of Aberdeen

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction - Helen Parish &
Wiliam G. Naphy Part I: Superstition, Tradition and this World 1. Images of
the Virgin Mary and Marian Devotion in Protestant Nuremberg - Bridget Heal
2. Not like us: Catholic identity as a defense against Protestantism in
Rottweil, 1560-1618 - Jason Nye 3. Traditional Practices: Catholic
Missionaries and Protestant Religious Practice in Transylvania - Maria
Craciun 4. The Jesuit Legend: Creating Superstitions and Myths - Eric
Nelson Part II: Superstition, Tradition and the Other World 5. 'The Spirit
of Prophecy has not wholly left the World': The Stylisation of Archbishop
James Ussher as a Prophet - Ute Lotz-Heumann 6. Serving Two Masters: John
Knoz, Scripture and Prophecy - Dale Johnson 7. A Protestant or Catholic
Superstition? Astrology and Eschatology during the French Wars of Religion
- Luc Racaut 8. Rational Superstition: The Writings of Protestant
Demonologists - Peter G. Maxwell-Stuart 9. Deceptive Appearances: Ghosts
and Reformers in Elizabethan and Jacobean England - Peter Marshall