...Anthony Ossa-Richardson Tutino Stefania , Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 ), 278 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

... for belittling the Eleusinian Mysteries, in a “Counter-Reformation” a“Counter-Reformation” in Mysteries, Eleusinian the forbelittling Milton’s Style Grand...

...Diarmaid MacCulloch Ozment Steven , The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2011 ), 344 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas J. Heffernan, The Passion...

...Alexandra Walsham C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 5 8 dle Ages; how ideas of interdynastic marriage helped to construct a common European diplomatic culture; and how a devaluation of marriage diplomacy in the early modern period was occasioned by state centralization, the Protestant Reformation...

...Yaakov Mascetti Zysk Jay , Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide ( Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2017 ), 424 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Li tt le R ev ie w s 3 5 9well have said...

...Jessica A. Boon Margaret Arnold , The Magdalene in the Reformation . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2018 ), 312 pp. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 In the late sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great fashioned a single, polymorphous character out...

...Lee Palmer Wandel Duffy Eamon , Saints, Sacrilege, and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations . ( London : Bloomsbury , 2012 ), 256 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Carlos Fausto; Caco Xavier; Elena Welper Sociocultural transformations brought about by indigenous leaders in Amazonia have been described as prophetic, millenaristic, or messianic and contrasted with modern reformism. This article addresses new ways of describing processes of change negotiated...

...John Tolan Some of the nineteenth century’s foremost scholars of the Qur’an and hadiths were German and Hungarian Jews. For many of them, their scholarly interest in Islam was entangled with their contemporary concerns about movements of reform and emancipation in European Jewry and about...

... antislavery tactics criticized nonviolent reformers like William Lloyd Garrison as men of words instead of men of action. Garrison and his allies rejected the equation of their pacifism with quietism, but the charge that Garrisonian abolitionists were more passive than Brown still survives. In fact, the most...

...Yaakov A. Mascetti Contextualist scholars working on the rhetoric of corporeal presence in seventeenth-century English religious lyrics have naturally focused their attention on sacramental discourse of the Reformation era. As part of the Common Knowledge symposium on the future of contextualism...

...Orville Schell This essay, written in memory of the Chinese astrophysicist and dissident Fang Lizhi, reexamines the period in Fang's life when he was vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China and, because of his activities as an educational and political reformer, came...

... about modernization and reform similar to the one that Toulmin advances in Return to Reason . Toulmin took a special, and evidently personal, delight in that novel's portrait of the shortcomings of intellectuals, for whom abstract theory and solidarity with other intellectuals count above all...

... the Henrician Reformation. Dubious of this premise during the previous exchange, the author here examines the lives of three northern English quietists of More's time—Christopher Urswick (c. 1448–1552), Cuthbert Tunstall (1474–1559), and John Redman (1499–1551)—who never quite risked martyrdom but never...

... canonized. In this version of events, England evades the Reformation and the wars of religion and enters modernity as a prosperous nation of small farmers who have no interest in enclosures and engrossing, let alone in capitalism and industrialization. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Richard...

... with three sets of devotional materials—two papier-mâché medallions painted by nuns at the convent of Wienhausen in northern Germany on the eve of the Reformation; a n'kisi n'kondi figure from the Yombe group of Kongo peoples in the nineteenth-century; and a description, taken from Marilynne Robinson's novel...

... Guerre brings understanding of the peasant world, which is also important for the trajectory of Luther's Reformation. Knowing about Martin Luther brings knowledge of major religious change, essential to understanding Martin Guerre's village world and what happened in it. Themes of “imposture...

.... Knowing about Martin Guerre brings understanding of the peasant world, which is also important for the trajectory of Luther’s Reformation. Knowing about Martin Luther brings knowledge of major religious change essential to understanding Martin Guerre’s village world and what happened in it. Themes...

... of his Party of Social Democracy during the first half of the 1990s. The essay critiques the course of events and laments the faltering pace of both economic and political reform resulting from the stagnant Romanian political situation and the persistence of former communist leaders in government...

...Nabila Abbas; Yves Sintomer Abstract A contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this article examines the diverse types of imaginary that support sortition, which is currently at the heart of important debates on the reform of existing democratic institutions. Different...