Transregional Reformations

Crossing Borders in Early Modern Europe

Violet Soen, Alexander Soetaert, Johan Verberckmoes, Wim François, Violet Soen, Alexander Soetaert, Johan Verberckmoes, Wim François

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9783525564707
• eBook ISBN:
  9783647564708
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Ministry

This volume invites scholars of the Catholic and Protestant Reformations to incorporate recent advances in transnational and transregional history into their own field of research, as it seeks to unravel how cross-border movements shaped reformations in early modern Europe. Covering a geographical space that ranges from Scandinavia to Spain and from England to Hungary, the chapters in this volume apply a transregional perspective to a vast array of topics, such as the history of theological discussion, knowledge transfer, pastoral care, visual allegory, ecclesiastical organization, confessional relations, religious exile, and university politics.The volume starts by showing in a first part how transfer and exchange beyond territorial circumscriptions or proto-national identifications shaped many sixteenth-century reformations. The second part of this volume is devoted to the acceleration of cultural transfer that resulted from the newly-invented printing press, by translation as well as transmission of texts and images. The third and final part of this volume examines the importance of mobility and migration in causing transregional reformations. Focusing on the process of 'crossing borders' in peripheries and borderlands, all chapters contribute to the de-centering of religious reform in early modern Europe. Rather than princes and urban governments steering religion, the early modern reformations emerge as events shaped by authors and translators, publishers and booksellers, students and professors, exiles and refugees, and clergy and (female) members of religious orders crossing borders in Europe, a continent composed of fractured states and regions.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Abbreviations
• Alexander Soetaert, Violet Soen, Johan Verberckmoes & Wim François: Crossing (Disciplinary) Borders: When Reformation Studies Meet Transregional History
• I. Transfer and Exchange
• Jonas van Tol: The Rhineland and the Huguenots: Transregional Confessional Relations During the French Wars of Religion
• Barbara B. Diefendorf: Localizing a Transregional Catholic Reformation: How Spanish and Italian Orders Became French
• Michel Boeglin: Crossing Boundaries: The Reception of Reformed Doctrines in Spain During the Reign of Emperor Charles V
• Gábor Ittzés: Why Departed Souls Cannot Return: Transregional Migration of a Reformation Idea in the Sixteenth Century
• II. Translation and Transmission
• Alexandra Walsham: Religious Ventriloquism: Translation, Cultural Exchange and the English Counter-Reformation
• Alexander Soetaert: Transferring Catholic Literature to the British Isles: The Publication of English Translations in the Ecclesiastical Province of Cambrai (c. 1600–‍50)
• Zsombor Tóth: “What do you Read my Lord? Words, Words, Words”: A Case Study on Translations and Cultural Transfers in Early Modern Eastern Europe
• Grażyna Jurkowlaniec: Printed Images Crossing Borders: An Allegory of the Catholic Church and its Dissemination in Late Sixtee th-Century Europe
• III. Mobility and Exile
• Kajsa Brilkman: Boundaries Transcended: Student Mobility, Clerical Marriage and Translations in the Life of the Swedish Reformer Olaus Petri
• Violet Soen: Containing Students and Scholars Within Borders? The Foundation of Universities in Reims and Douai and Transregional Transfers in Early Modern Catholicism
• Timothy J. Orr: “Even if Fire were Lighted”: Jan Hus and the Decision to Flee or Remain
• Johannes M. Müller: ˋExile Theology' Beyond Confessional Boundaries: The Example of Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert
• Christiaan Ravensbergen: Language Barriers to Confessional Migration: Reformed Ministers from the Palatinate in the East of the Netherlands (1578)
• Notes on Contributors
• Index of Names
• Index of Places