Reformation, religious culture and print in early modern Europe

Abstract

"Anyone who has studied the history of the Reformation, the book and communication will have come across or been influenced by Andrew Pettegree's contributions to these fields. The forty-four essays in this Festschrift and its companion volume have been commissioned to cover the broad scope of Pettegree's areas of interest and expertise, and to reflect and build upon them. The pieces, written by forty-three scholars based at over thirty institutions, are organised around nine key themes, ranging from the intersections of religion and print to the history of book collecting, the periodical press and pioneering book historical research methodologies. This first volume contains nineteen essays. Together with the second volume, 'The Book World of Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Andrew Pettegree, Volume 2', it offers a wide-ranging survey of the state of current scholarship on religion, printing and media change in early modern Europe."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Andrew Pettegree, a historian of the Reformation and the book / Malcolm Walsby -- Andrew Pettegree and Brill: A publishing history / Arjan van Dijk -- Reformation and religious culture: Boundaries of memory: The mediaeval Bible in the early modern world / Bruce Gordon -- The unexpected guest: Henry VIII in the general archive of the servants of Mary / Flavia Bruni -- 'Thruste oute teares of repentaunce:' Dramatizing conversion in Reformation England / Brian L. Hanson -- Weather, finance and urban religious dissent in early modern Scotland / Margo Todd -- Restoration and the culture of persecution: The view from Lambeth / Grant Tapsell -- Scholarly careers and the confessional university in early modern Germany / Richard Kirwan -- Religious re-anchoring (through lots of books): Heinrich August Winkler, Germany, and 'the West' / Riccardo Bavaj -- Religion in print: A prayer for Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII and their 'children': A portal to early Reformation England's entente evangelique with France / Jonathan A. Reid -- The vernacular scripture fallacy and the failure of early Protestant mission / Alec Ryrie -- Brand Melanchthon, Brand Philippism, polemics and the book world, 1560-1620: A prolegomenon / Ian Maclean -- A hell of a poem! Censoring Dante's Commedia in early modern Spain / Natale Vacalebre -- Lost saints: Printed Catholic ephemera in the Dutch Republic / Elise Watson -- Religious strife and revolt in France and the Low Countries: The role of international printing presses in the French Wars of Religion / Mack P. Holt -- The Protestant book trade in Rouen during the first years of the Wars of Religion / Malcolm Walsby -- A joyful book as a vehicle for the Protestant faith? The case of the Triomphes de l'abbaye des Conards, Rouen, 1587 / Katell Laveant -- 'Our poor oppressed and forlorn fatherland:' The patriotic rhetoric inspired by William of Orange and his circle, 1568-1576 / Alastair Duke -- Challenging the Church of England: The building of a Calvinist English church in Antwerp (1578-1582) / Guido Marnef.