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...David Aers; Nigel Smith This special issue is devoted to the English Reformations and current historiography. The title intentionally pluralizes the traditionally singular noun Reformation to signify a scope that includes both the early Reformation (through to 1547) and continuing senses...

...- pretation. We are particularly committed to work that seeks to overcome the polarization between “history” and “theory” in the study of premodern Western culture. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: March 1, 2009 English Reformations: Historiography, Theology, and Narrative Volume 40...

... httpmedren.aas.duke.edu/jmems Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:2, Spring 2009 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2008-029  © 2009 by Duke University Press English Reformations: Historiography, Theology, and Narrative Volume 40 / Number 3 / Fall 2010 Edited by David Aers and Nigel Smith...

... a revolutionary transformation of a Church embroiled in Constantinian forms of Christianity. The essay therefore posits a Langlandian vision contrary to some recent trends in the historiography of the late medieval Church and some recent accounts of Piers Plowman itself. Crucial to Langland’s concerns...

... to avoid the violence unleashed by early modern religion. The book's weakness, then, is ethical. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The Unintended Reformation Reformation historiography modernity ethical and moral criticism • Brad...

... Aers and Nigel Smith, a prolific scholar specializing in the writings of the seventeenth-century revolution. This issue emerged from the editors’ conversations about current historiography of the English Reformation and divisions over its causes and consequences. They were especially interested...

... practices in pursuit of those goods, even as Christians keep their sights on a comprehensive eschatological beyond. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The Unintended Reformation Reformation historiography modernity and the common good proximate common goods pluralism...

... exceptionalism. Notwithstanding the idiosyncratic nature of Protestant reform in England, such mapping tends to date itself as a remnant of anachronistic Anglican mythologizing. Riding the tide of imperial expansion, the nineteenth century represented the high watermark of triumphal Whig historiography...

... of Lollardy’s lack of dynamism is coupled in much current Reformation historiography with an emphasis on the divisive and elitist nature of early English Protestantism. Eamon Duffy, in his seminal study The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400  –  1580, presents a picture...

... movements as an interpretive heuristc for both the Reformation period and the contemporary world. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The Unintended Reformation historiography of modernity sola scriptura church doctrine pluralism...

... Reformation historiography of modernity narrative of decline historical inevitability • • “Botched Execution” or Historical Inevitability: Conceptual Dilemmas...

... reformation historiography has gone a long way to illu- minate the slippages between what Eamon Duffy calls “traditional religion” and various confessions of reformed Protestantism.3 And yet the “turn to religion” in studies of the early modern theater insists (sometimes willfully, other times...

...” or “defor- mation,” while sympathizers celebrated the “blessed Reformation” which God had wrought for them within living memory. The concepts of reform and reformation are thus not anachronisms.15 Again, recent historiography has served to complicate our under- standing of the relationship...

... vision of “mutual forbearance” that complicates vaunted accounts of Dutch tolerance. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The Unintended Reformation Geeraardt Brandt Dutch Reformation historiography tolerance conflict and jurisdiction...

... not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Brad S. Gregory The Unintended Reformation medieval Catholic church Protestant Reformation historiography • Unintended Reformations? David Aers...

...Peter C. Herman © by Duke University Press 2000 Rastell’s Pastyme of People: Monarchy and the Law in Early Modern Historiography Peter C. Herman San...

... of plays from different parts of the canon (early, middle, and late), and different genres (history play, problem comedy, tragedy, and romance). They also address a set of changing practices: historiography (Parker); sanc- tity and satisfaction (Sanok, Appleford, Hirschfeld); chivalry and neoclassi...

... of Medieval Civilizations R. I. Moore University of Newcastle Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom The historiography of first millennium Eurasia The conventional periodization of “the end of the ancient world...

... to the early modern period? As the individualization of religion has also been seen as a major component of Reformation-era changes, it is particularly fruitful to study these questions across the medieval–early modern divide. While scholars have failed to define “religion” in a way that would...

...James Simpson This essay is a rebuttal to Debora Shuger’s 2008 essay, “The Reformation of Penance,” in which she takes aim at revisionist Reformation scholarship, and in particular at James Simpson’s Reform and Cultural Revolution , published in 2002, as exemplary of the error of the revisionists...