Lived religion and the long Reformation in northern Europe c. 1300-1700 / edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Raisa Maria Toivo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari, editor.

Series:

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; VOLUME 206.

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; VOLUME 206

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history.

Europe, Northern--Religious life and customs.

Europe, Northern.

Europe, Northern--Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Europe, Northern--Church history--16th century.

Europe, Northern--Church history--17th century.

Northern Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 326 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2016.

Summary:

Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe' puts Reformation in a daily life context using lived religion as a conceptual and methodological tool: exploring how people "lived out" their religion in their mundane toils and how religion created a performative space for them. This collection reinvestigates the character of the Reformation in an area that later became the heartlands of Lutheranism. The way people lived their religion was intricately linked with questions of the value of individual experience, communal cohesion and interaction. During the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era religious certainty was replaced by the experience of doubt and hesitation. Negotiations on and between various social levels manifest the needs, aspirations and resistance behind the religious change.

Contents:

Section 1 Lived Religion in Daily Life

1 Devotional Strategies in Everyday Life: Laity's Interaction with Saints in the North in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari 21

2 Disability and Religious Practices in Late Medieval Prussia: Infirmity and the Miraculous in the Canonization Process of St. Dorothea of Montau (1404-1406) / Jenni Kuuliala Kuuliala, Jenni 46

3 Protestantism, Modernity and the Power of Penetration: Saints and Sacrifice in 17th Century Lutheran Finland / Raisa Maria Toivo Toivo, Raisa Maria 75

4 Appeal and Survival of Anabaptism in Early Modern Germany / Päivi Räisänen-Schröder Räisänen-Schröder, Päivi 104

Section 2 Religious Economics: Charity and Community

5 Poverty and Preaching between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The Case of Ericus Erici, Bishop of Turku / Jussi Hanska Hanska, Jussi 131

6 Urban Funeral Practices in the Baltic Sea Region / Maya Ojala Ojala, Maya 159

7 Religiosity and Readiness for the Reformation among Late Medieval Burghers in Stockholm, c. 1420-1570 / Marko Lamberg Lamberg, Marko 178

Section 3 Religion, Politics and Contested Identities

8 Mikael Agricola: Father of the Finnish Language, Builder of the Swedish State / Jason Lavery Lavery, Jason 207

9 Reformation at the Election Field. Religious Politics in the Polish-Lithuanian Royal Elections, 1573-1576 / Mila Ijäs Ijäs, Mila 230

10 Resistance to the Reformation in 16th-century Finland / Kaarlo Arffman Arffman, Kaarlo 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004328853

9004328858

OCLC:

953744807