Religion and superstition in Reformation Europe
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Religion and superstition in Reformation Europe
（Studies in early modern European history）
Manchester University Press, 2002
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- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-229) and index
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: hbk. ISBN 9780719061578
Description
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. -- .
Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction - Helen Parish & William 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 Jesult 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
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: pbk. ISBN 9780719061585
Description
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. -- .
Table of Contents
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 -- .
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