...James Simpson Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation is an extraordinary book. Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation is a shockingly bad book. This essay explicates the force of these contradictory statements. On the one hand, the potential of Gregory's understanding of periodization may...

...Paul C. H. Lim In The Unintended Reformation , Brad Gregory answers a number of questions regarding the doctrinal diversity and hermeneutical pluralism that resulted from the fissiparous tendency noticeable among the Protestants, particularly thanks to their emphasis on sola scriptura. This essay...

...Thomas Pfau This essay takes up a variety of issues arising from within the narrative offered in Brad S. Gregory's The Unintended Reformation . This book has been widely perceived to be informed by a Catholic metaphysic, even as Gregory continues to disavow that framework, or declares...

...David Aers; Russ Leo Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation: How A Religious Revolution Secularized Society (2012) is a book whose aspirations dovetail with the aims of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies . The journal fosters scholarship that crosses current disciplines...

...Jennifer A. Herdt Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation bemoans the loss of the shared “institutionalized worldview” that was Christendom, claiming that the resulting hyperpluralism renders it impossible to adjudicate among competing conceptions of the good. Our contemporary moment is better...

..., inwardly persuaded by testimony, was not finally adequate. Recent critiques of the Reformation by such writers as Brad Gregory and Jennifer Herdt have thus underestimated the extent to which their critiques were immanently produced within Protestantism itself. Reformation theology and belief implicit...

... • Geeraardt Brandt, Dutch Tolerance, and the Reformation of the Reformation Russ Leo Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Brad Gregory’s vision...

... of conscience on his deathbed in light of his predestinarian theology (127–34). 13 See the special issue “Unintended Reformations,” ed. David Aers and Russ Leo, JMEMS 46, no. 3 (2016), particularly James Simpson, “Brad Gregory's Unintended Revelations,” 545–54. 14 See Anthony Milton, Catholic...

... by David Aers and Russ Leo Volume 46 / Number 3 / September 2016 This special issue of JMEMS will focus on the book by Brad S. Gregory, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012) — an engaging and con- troversial...

... and Russ Leo Volume 46 / Number 3 / September 2016 This special issue of JMEMS will focus on the book by Brad S. Gregory, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012) — an engaging and con- troversial work...

... will focus on the book by Brad S. Gregory, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)—an engaging and con- troversial work that maps the vicissitudes of belief and life in the world in the wake of the Reformation...

... “constraining,” whether by labors of the will, by desires for mimetic similarity, or by an institution like state or church, ruins the real, passive imitation of Christ’s self-­sacrifice. This is the reason, pace Brad Gregory’s work on early modern martyrdom, that martyrdom in Donne cannot be exemplary...

...” and reproduce ideas about the rise of disciplinary structures and ideals of “civi- lization” linked with Foucault and Norbert Elias. Explicitly conceived as a counterpoint to traditional triumphalist tales of intellectual emancipation, Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation revolves around the argument...

..., Hofprediger: Joachim Lütkemann in Rostock und Wolfenbüttel. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 136. Wiesbaden, Ger.: Harrassowitz Verlag for the Herzog August Biblio- thek Wolfenbüttel, 2013. 404 pp.; 5 figs. eur 78.00. Gregory, Brad S. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized...

... of what she calls “competing martyrologies” in Martyrdom and Literature, 1 – 8. For the discursive significance of this term (and the tropes of martyrologies), see Monta; see also Dailey, English Martyr, 1 – 9. On the widespread martyrdoms throughout this period, see Brad S. Gregory...

..., 2013. xi, 272 pp. $99.00. Gregory, Brad S. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Univer- sity Press, 2012. 574 pp. $39.95. Jung, Jacqueline E. The Gothic Screen: Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals...

... $18.95. Given, James B. Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, (1997) 2001. xiii, 225 pp.; 2 plates, 5 figs., 5 tables. Paper $18.95. Gregory, Brad S. Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe...

... to the king. A sole reference to being benighted in a spatious field in Meath remains of her itineraries; Rochford, Life of S. Patricke . . . with the Holy Virgin S. Bridgit, 115. 40 See Brad S. Gregory, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University...

... plates. $84.95. Gregory, Brad S. Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe. Harvard Historical Studies 134. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xvi, 528 pp. $49.95. Lansing, Carol. Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy. New York: Oxford University Press...

.... 10 See Alister Chapman, John Coffey, and Brad S. Gregory, eds., Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009); Sarah Beckwith, “Stephen Greenblatt’s Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion,” Journal...