Cultural Shifts and Ritual Transformations in Reformation Europe

Victoria Christman, Ph.D. (2005), University of Arizona, is Professor of History at Luther College. Her research focuses on religious coexistence in the sixteenth-century Low Countries, and her publications include Pragmatic Toleration: The Politics of Religious Heterodoxy in Early Reformation Antwerp, 1515–1555 (Rochester, 2015).Marjorie Plummer, Ph.D. (1996), Virginia, is Susan C. Karant-Nunn Professor of Reformation and Early Modern History at University of Arizona. Her publications include From Priest’s Whore to Pastor’s Wife (Ashgate, 2012) and articles on convents, marriage, and religious plurality in Germany.

• List of AbbreviationsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPrologueJames J. Blakeley and Robert J. Christmanpart 1: The Early Reformation in Saxony1 Simultaneously Bride and Whore: Martin Luther, the Bride of Christ, and the Limits of HyperboleDavid M. Whitford2 Luther and GenderLyndal Roper3 High Noon on the Road to Damascus: A Reformation Showdown and the Role of Horses in Lucas Cranach the Younger’s Conversion of Paul (1549)Pia F. Cuneo4 Aging and Retirement of Former Nuns after the Reforming of the Convent in Ernestine SaxonyMarjorie Elizabeth Plummerpart 2: Devotional Ritual and Popular Religion5 Streitkultur Meets the Culture of Persuasion: The Flensburg Disputation of 1529Amy Nelson Burnett6 How to Make a Holy Well: Local Practices and Official Responses in Early Modern GermanyUte Lotz-Heumann7 Distinguishing between Saints and Spirits. Or How to Tell the Difference between the Virgin Mary and Mary the Ghost?Kathryn A. Edwardspart 3: Cultural History and the Religious and Political Self8 Advice from a Lutheran Politique: Ambassador David Ungnad’s Circular Letter to the Austrian Estates, 1576James Tracy9 Emblematic Strategies in the Devotions and Dynasty of Dorothea, Princess of AnhaltMara R. Wade10 “Rebellious Sister?” Mary of Hungary, Queen-Regent of the Netherlands, 1531–1555Victoria Christmanpart 4: Culture in Motion: Emotion, Space, and Gender11 Compassion in Punishment: The Visual Evidence in Sixteenth-Century Depictions of CalvaryCharles Zika12 Above the Skin: Cloth and the Body’s Boundary in Early Modern NurembergAmy Newhouse13 Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Imagery: A Contribution to Early Modern Gender HistoryHelmut Puff14 ‘One Must Speak the Truth Rather than Staying Silent’: Women, Scandal, and the Genevan ConsistoryKaren E. SpierlingEpilogue: A Festival of FestschriftenMerry Wiesner-HanksIndex

"this is a collection that will be of great interest to all scholars of the Reformation. These essays are astonishingly engaging. The essays [...] may seem to be super-specific (and they are), but potential readers ought not let that scare them off. These contributions are festooned with incredibly interesting historical facts.[...] Reformation scholars, persons interested in gender studies, and those inclined to the investigation of the minutest details of early modern European history will all enjoy making their way through this collection. I think you will enjoy it. And so I recommend it to you."Jim West (ThD), Ming Hua Theological College / Charles Sturt University, in Zwinglius Redivivus (https://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2021/04/17)