...David R. Como This article examines the “conversions” and confessions of Giles Creech, a London cutler who allegedly passed through “fourteen several religions” during his youth in early Stuart London. In 1638 Creech furnished the authorities with a detailed dossier on furtive communities...

...Iain Macleod Higgins © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 a Shades of the East: Orientalism, Religion, and Nation in Late Medieval Scottish Literature...

...Sari Katajala-Peltomaa; Raisa Maria Toivo This special issue of JMEMS takes up the classical debate on the “shared” and the “individual” through the concepts of “lived religion” on the one hand and “experience” on the other. The collection presents the state‐of‐the‐art within the emerging field...

... concept of “lived religion” of their own. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2025 early modern English spirituality Calvinist beliefs proof of salvation emotions bodily experience In March 1673, a devout London matron and Protestant dissenter by the name...

...Peter Harrison Historians of science have become increasingly aware of the connections between religion and science in the early modern period. Science, or more strictly “natural philosophy,” is understood as having pointed to the existence of a designing deity. Conversely, religion is seen...

...Sari Katajala-Peltomaa Proper gestures, signs, and rituals were important for orthopraxis in the Middle Ages; they affected the way religion was “lived out,” since the body was a site where religion was experienced. Analyzing fifteenth-century pastoralia from Vadstena Abbey in Sweden, this article...

...Raisa Maria Toivo This article investigates how Communion was shared as an experience of “lived religion” in early modern Finland. The article draws on church teaching and legal materials concerning Communion to investigate what scripts were available that shaped experience, and it draws on court...

...Joanna Picciotto This special issue is a response to three remarkable developments in the humanities: religion's return to the center of scholarly attention, an outpouring of work on the changing nature and historical conditions of intellectual labor, and the widespread revival of interest...

...John Jeffries Martin This special issue investigates some of the ways in which Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — the three major religions of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean — intersected one another. Focusing variously on travelers, runaways, merchants, missionaries, and warriors...

... the order's unity. This article explores the breviary as both a personal and communal object, examining its liturgical content as an expression of lived religion. It argues that the breviary, often overlooked by scholars, can in some cases reveal a negotiation between individual and communal religious...

... that have long shaped studies of medieval and early modern history, literature, and religion. The essays in this volume consider monastic traditions, institutions, texts, and practices comparatively and internationally. They also consider early modern English monastic communities in their Continental...

...Matthew Milner Recent work in historical philosophy on the Aristotelian concept of qualities — that is, hot, cold, wet, and dry, the fundamental causal agents of the natural world — offers a moment to reconsider the connections between medicine, religion, and natural philosophy in late medieval...

.... The central argument of this essay is that doctrine is not something at the core of religions in general, but rather something of specific concern to Christianity. In looking at how this specific concern informs the development of natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, it emerges that it is not a one...

...Morgan Ng Taking the case of a late Renaissance treatise on Huguenot architecture, this essay explores the potentials of collage as an expression of confessional contestation in the wake of the French Wars of Religion. The book's hybrid imagery bears a formal language of cutting, removal...

... 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...

..., and to align the passage with her thought elsewhere in A Revelation . Ultimately, it argues that the full resonance of the passage lies in its relationship to the sacrament of the altar. This article thus contributes to debates on religion and the body, and more specifically to underexamined eucharistic...

...” narratives that bridged different forms. Lord Berners's Huon of Bordeaux (ca. 1515) and Richard Johnson's The Seven Champions of Christendom (1596–97) are popular prose texts that employ crusade discourse's dual sense of conversion as an intensified commitment and as a change in religion in their portrayal...

... Stanley, the Earl of Derby. This performance is reconstructed to show how, well after Reformed religion had become entrenched in England, Catholic expressive forms might function in novel ways within civic space, simultaneously supporting authoritative regimes, inspiring new collaborations...

...-Machiavellian lawyer Innocent Gentillet during the French wars of religion. Against Gentillet and with Plutarch, Montaigne fully acknowledges the importance of ingenuity as “the animal outside” in human sociability. early modern French politics moral philosophy Gorgio Agamben human and animal life...