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The Reformation of Feeling

Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany

By: Susan C. Karant-Nunn

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The Reformation of Feeling

Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany

By: Susan C. Karant-Nunn

Susan Karant-Nunn argues that the 16th-century Reformation movement sought not only to modify people's doctrinal convictions and their behavior but to root these changes in altered sentiment.

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0199964017

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The Reformation of Ritual

An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany

By: Susan Karant-Nunn

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The Reformation of Ritual

An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany

By: Susan Karant-Nunn

Susan Karant-Nunn applies the insights of anthrop- ologists to ritual change in the German Reformat- ion, finding that Church and state cooperated in using ritual as an instrument for imposing social discipline.

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1134829191

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The Reformation of Ritual

An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany

By: Susan Karant-Nunn

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The Reformation of Ritual

An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany

By: Susan Karant-Nunn

In The Reformation of Ritual Susan Karant-Nunn explores the function of ritual in early modern German society, and the extent to which it was modified by the Reformation. Employing anthropological insights, and drawing on extensive archival research, Susan Karant-Nunn outlines the significance of the ceremonial changes. This comprehensive study includes an examination of all major rites of passage: birth, baptism, confirmation, engagement, marriage, the churching of women after childbirth, penance, the Eucharist, and dying. The author argues that the changes in ritual made over the course of the century reflect more than theological shifts; ritual was a means of imposing discipline and of making the divine more or less accessible. Church and state cooperated in using ritual as one means of gaining control of the populace.

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1134829183

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The Personal Luther

Essays on the Reformer from a Cultural Historical Perspective

By: Susan Karant-Nunn

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The Personal Luther

Essays on the Reformer from a Cultural Historical Perspective

By: Susan Karant-Nunn

Overwhelmingly, Martin Luther has been treated as the generator of ideas concerning the relationship between God and humankind. The Personal Luther deliberately departs from that church-historiographic tradition. Luther was a voluble and irrepressible divine. Even though he had multiple ancillary interests, such as singing, playing the lute, appreciating the complexities of nature, and observing his children, his preoccupation was, as he quickly saw it, bringing the Word of God to the people. This book is not about Luther’s theology except insofar as any ideational construct is itself an expression of the thinker who frames it. Luther frequently couched his affective utterances within a theological framework. Nor is it a biography; it does not portray a whole life. Rather, it concentrates on several heretofore neglected aspects of the Reformer’s existence and personality. The subjects that appear in this book are meant to demonstrate what such core-taking on a range of mainly unexplored facets of the Reformer’s personality and experience can yield. It will open the way for other secular researchers to explore the seemingly endless interests of this complicated individual. It will also show that perspectives of cultural historians offer the broadest possible evidentiary base within which to analyze a figure of the past.

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BRILL

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9004348883

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Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

By: Susan Broomhall

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Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

By: Susan Broomhall

This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authority is inherently relational it must be asserted over someone who allows or is forced to accept this dominance. The capacity to exercise authority is therefore a social and cultural act, one that is shaped by social identities such as gender and by social practices that include emotions. The contributions in this volume, exploring case studies of women and men's letter-writing, political and ecclesiastical governance, household rule, exercise of law and order, and creative agency, investigate how gender and emotions shaped the ways different individuals could assert or maintain authority, or indeed disrupt or provide alternatives to conventional practices of authority.

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Springer

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1137531169

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Conspiracy and Virtue

Women, Writing, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Susan Wiseman

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Conspiracy and Virtue

Women, Writing, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Susan Wiseman

What was the relationship between woman and politics in seventeenth-century England? Responding to this question, Conspiracy and Virtue argues that theoretical exclusion of women from the political sphere shaped their relation to it. Rather than producing silence, this exclusion generated rich, complex, and oblique political involvements which this study traces through the writings of both men and women. Pursuing this argument Conspiracy and Virtue engages the main writings on women's relationship to the political sphere including debates on the public sphere and on contract theory. Writers and figures discussed include Elizabeth Avery, Aphra Behn, Anne Bradstreet, Maragret Cavendish, Queen Christina of Sweden, Anne Halkett, Brilliana Harley, Lucy Hutchinson, John Milton, Elizabeth Poole, Sara Wight, and Henry Jessey.

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OUP Oxford

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0191607118

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Are You Alone Wise?

The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era

By: Susan Schreiner

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Are You Alone Wise?

The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era

By: Susan Schreiner

The topic of certitude is much debated today. On one side, commentators such as Charles Krauthammer urge us to achieve "moral clarity." On the other, those like George Will contend that the greatest present threat to civilization is an excess of certitude. To address this uncomfortable debate, Susan Schreiner turns to the intellectuals of early modern Europe, a period when thought was still fluid and had not yet been reified into the form of rationality demanded by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Schreiner argues that Europe in the sixteenth century was preoccupied with concerns similar to ours; both the desire for certainty -- especially religious certainty -- and warnings against certainty permeated the earlier era. Digging beneath overt theological and philosophical problems, she tackles the underlying fears of the period as she addresses questions of salvation, authority, the rise of skepticism, the outbreak of religious violence, the discernment of spirits, and the ambiguous relationship between appearance and reality.In her examination of the history of theological polemics and debates (as well as other genres), Schreiner sheds light on the repeated evaluation of certainty and the recurring fear of deception. Among the texts she draws on are Montaigne's Essays, the mystical writings of Teresa of Avila, the works of Reformation fathers William of Occam, Luther, Thomas Muntzer, and Thomas More; and the dramas of Shakespeare. The result is not a book about theology, but rather about the way in which the concern with certitude determined the theology, polemics and literature of an age.

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OUP USA

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0195313429

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A History of Women in Christian Worship

By: Susan J. White

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A History of Women in Christian Worship

By: Susan J. White

Looking beyond women's exclusion from the church hierarchy this study looks at the part they have played in worship, in the home, through liturgical arts and crafts, and their leadership in temperance movements and covenants.

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0281056471

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The Reformation of Feeling

Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany

By: Susan C. Karant-Nunn

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The Reformation of Feeling

Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany

By: Susan C. Karant-Nunn

Susan Karant-Nunn argues that the 16th-century Reformation movement sought not only to modify people's doctrinal convictions and their behavior but to root these changes in altered sentiment.

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Book's by Susan Karant-Nunn

The Reformation of Feeling

The Reformation of Feeling

The Reformation of Ritual

The Reformation of Ritual

The Reformation of Ritual

The Reformation of Ritual

The Personal Luther

The Personal Luther

Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Conspiracy and Virtue

Conspiracy and Virtue

Are You Alone Wise?

Are You Alone Wise?

A History of Women in Christian Worship

A History of Women in Christian Worship

The Reformation of Feeling

The Reformation of Feeling

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