Closely entwined with the educational revolution of early modernity, the Reformation transformed the pedagogical landscape and culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Embracing a broad understanding of the Reformation this volume examines the confessional dynamics which shaped the educational transformations of early modernity, including Calvinists, Lutherans, Anabaptists and Roman Catholics in its scope. Going beyond conventional emphases on the role of the printing press and theological education of clergy in university settings, it also explores the education of laity in academies, schools and the home in all manner of topics including theology, history, natural philosophy and ethics. More well-known figures like John Calvin and Philipp Melanchthon are examined alongside less-well known but important figures like Caspar Coolhaes and Lukas Osiander. Likewise, more prominent centres of reform including Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands are considered together with often overlooked locations like the Czech Republic and Denmark.

This volume is one of scarce studies of religious literature of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth conducted by scholars from both Poland and Lithuania. What makes this endeavour important is mainly the will to overcome the frontiers and strains of the modern world that encourage exploring separateness instead of the realities of deep mutual interdependency. ukasz Cybulski and Kristina Rutkovska analyse secular and religious writings of secular authors as well as those belonging to the clergy and religious orders. Their main interest lies in exploring the different genres of early modern Polish and Lithuanian sermons and novels, and in tracing this heritage to its social and literary context through the works material presence in manuscript form and in print. Other papers in this volume give insights into the origins of vernacular translations of the Holy Scriptures and the controversies surrounding them, as well as into the written testimonies of religious devotion and conversions. The aim has been not only to confront different kinds of texts and experiences, but to situate this heritage in its social and confessional context.

Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of this Council, not only in Europe but also beyond. Their conclusions are to be found in these three impressive volumes. Bridging different generations of scholarship, the authors reassess in a first volume Tridentine views on the Bible, theology and liturgy, as well as their reception by Protestants, deconstructing many myths surviving in scholarship and society alike. They also deal with the mechanisms Rome developed to hold a grip on the Councils implementation. The second volume analyzes the changes in local ecclesiastical life, initiated by bishops, orders and congregations, and the political strife and confessionalisation accompanying this reform process. The third and final volume examines the afterlife of Trent in arts and music, as well as in the global impact of Trent through missions.

Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of this Council, not only in Europe but also beyond. Their conclusions are to be found in these three impressive volumes. Bridging different generations of scholarship, the authors reassess in a first volume Tridentine views on the Bible, theology and liturgy, as well as their reception by Protestants, deconstructing many myths surviving in scholarship and society alike. They also deal with the mechanisms Rome developed to hold a grip on the Councils implementation. The second volume analyzes the changes in local ecclesiastical life, initiated by bishops, orders and congregations, and the political strife and confessionalisation accompanying this reform process. The third and final volume examines the afterlife of Trent in arts and music, as well as in the global impact of Trent through missions.

Exactly 450 years after the solemn closure of the Council of Trent on 4 December 1563, scholars from diverse regional, disciplinary and confessional backgrounds convened in Leuven to reflect upon the impact of this Council, not only in Europe but also beyond. Their conclusions are to be found in these three impressive volumes. Bridging different generations of scholarship, the authors reassess in a first volume Tridentine views on the Bible, theology and liturgy, as well as their reception by Protestants, deconstructing many myths surviving in scholarship and society alike. They also deal with the mechanisms Rome developed to hold a grip on the Councils implementation. The second volume analyzes the changes in local ecclesiastical life, initiated by bishops, orders and congregations, and the political strife and confessionalisation accompanying this reform process. The third and final volume examines the afterlife of Trent in arts and music, as well as in the global impact of Trent through missions.

While the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk realm in 1516-17 doubtlessly changed the balance of political power in Egypt and Greater Syria, the changes must be seen as a wide-ranging transition process. The present collection of essays provides several case studies on the changing situation during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and explains how the reconfiguration of political power affected both Egypt and Greater Syria. With reference to the first volume (2017), this second volume continues the debate on key issues of the transition period with contributions by scholars from both Mamluk and Ottoman studies. By combining these perspectives, the authors provide a more comprehensive and nuanced picture of the process of transformation from Mamluk to Ottoman rule.

The general field of study of this volume is the history and culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (12501517). It contains the proceedings of the First German-Japanese Workshop held at the Toyo Bunko in Tokyo, Japan. The authors write about a variety of topics from rural irrigation systems to high diplomacy vis a vis the Safavid empire and the Ottoman threat. The volume includes case studies of important personalities and families living in the centres of Mamluk power such as Cairo and Damascus as well as analyses of contemporary writers and their stance toward the ruling military class. Next to innovation in the field, this volume is an agenda of an increasing globalisation of scholarship that is fertilizing future research.

A remarkable painting by the Antwerp painter Maerten de Vos, Moses Showing the Tablets of the Law to the Israelites, shows wealthy merchants, artists and poets, a ground-breaking botanist, a pioneer in womens education, and the greatest publisher of the age gathered around a portrayal of Moses and Aaron with the stone tablets of the law engraved with the Ten Commandments in Dutch.In searching for an answer to the question of what brought together this diverse group of influential people in sixteenth-century Antwerp, Richard Willmott turns to their letters, diaries, friendship albums and poetry to write a group biography. As he finds out more about each life and explores the links that brought them together, he shows how a network of friendship and exchange of scholarly ideas that crossed the Channel and Europes borders lay behind the rich civilisation of sixteenth-century Antwerp, until it was destroyed by the struggle for political and religious power in the Eighty Years War when the Dutch fought the Spanish for independence.

Este libro sobre censura y diálogo, o sobre el diálogo a la luz de la censura, explora de forma conjunta fenómenos relevantes de la historia cultural europea, desde la herejía al saber reservado. Nace de la confluencia de intereses de equipos dedicados de manera sostenida e independiente al estudio del genero dialogico en la Peninsula Iberica, y al analisis del pensamiento censorio y de las formas de vigilancia de la textualidad. La interseccion de estos dos campos de interes define un territorio apenas transitado por los historiadores de la literatura hispanica: del encuentro de los especialistas que participan en este volumen resulta una nueva perspectiva sobre las condiciones de escritura, lectura e interpretacion del corpus dialogico quinientista.

El conjunto de ensayos recolectados en el presente libro se inscribe en la ranura historiográfica que procura mirar a la globalidad de los estudios inquisitoriales, en una nueva trayectoria que se esta proponiendo desde las ultimas decadas: tradicionalmente la Inquisicion de los siglos xv-xix ha sido investigada en tres areas, en España, en Portugal y en la peninsula italiana. Ha sido nuestra intencion proporcionar a los estudiosos del tema una aportacion de cara a interpretar el fenomeno inquisitorial en sus distintas territorialidades, considerando la necesidad de acompañar, en el tiempo y en las sociedades, la evolucion de lo que Jaime Contreras y Jean-Pierre Dedieu llamaron la geografia de la Inquisicion española, ha sido el presentar enfoques dirigidos a comprender la estructuracion y las especificidades de cada tribunal de distrito, algo a lo que los directores de la Historia de la Inquisicion en España y America-Joaquin Perez Villanueva y Bartolome Escandell Bonet- habian renunciado y que apenas la labor frenetica de Jose Toribio Medina pudo lograr para los distritos americanos y ciertas geografias de su jurisdiccion.

Ulrich, or Huldrych, Zwingli of Zurich is the great unknown of the Reformation in Europe, and yet his influence and ideas have penetrated into every part of the world where the Reformed tradition has been planted. He was neither a passionate man of religion like Luther, nor a superb dialectician like Calvin. But in his lucid radicalism and belief in thorough reform in Church doctrine as well as in government, Zwingli stands with his two more famous brethren as a Father of the Reformation. First published in English in 1964, Jean Rilliets biography places Zwingli in the context of Swiss church history, as well as that of the sixteenth-century upheaval of which he was a part. Covering every aspect of Zwinglis career, with detailed discussion of his more influential writings, the picture that emerges is one of a fighting prophet, unremittent in his search for God in this most turbulent of times.

Ulrich, or Huldrych, Zwingli of Zurich is the great unknown of the Reformation in Europe, and yet his influence and ideas have penetrated into every part of the world where the Reformed tradition has been planted. He was neither a passionate man of religion like Luther, nor a superb dialectician like Calvin. But in his lucid radicalism and belief in thorough reform in Church doctrine as well as in government, Zwingli stands with his two more famous brethren as a Father of the Reformation. First published in English in 1964, Jean Rilliets biography places Zwingli in the context of Swiss church history, as well as that of the sixteenth-century upheaval of which he was a part. Covering every aspect of Zwinglis career, with detailed discussion of his more influential writings, the picture that emerges is one of a fighting prophet, unremittent in his search for God in this most turbulent of times.

Warfare has been central to European history for millennia; Twenty Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe examines the strategy, military and equipment and battle-tactics of European armies in the Middle Ages. Its fundamental aim is to stimulate the readers interest in the importance of pitched battles in war, and to explain the geo-political gravity of twenty of them from the Battle of Frigidus in AD394 to the Battle of Varna in 1444, taking in such key battles as Hastings in 1066 and Bouvines in 1214.

In his important evaluation of the theological leader of the English Reformation, G.W. Bromiley charts Cranmers doctrinal views, scriptural interpretation and liturgical composition. His nuanced position on various controversial issues of the day, not least baptism, is articulated with clarity and care, and his ecumenical sensitivity is foregrounded. While arguably more adept as a scholar than as a creative theologian in his own right, Cranmers writing nevertheless formed the cornerstone of future Anglican theology. Through his Articles of Religion (42, later reduced to 39) and the Book of Common Prayer, he set the parameters within which the Church of England was to operate. Perhaps most significantly, as Bromiley shows, his extensive citation of patristic sources established a precedent for his successors that continues today. Written by one of the great ecclesiastical historians of the twentieth century, Thomas Cranmer, Theologian is the essential starting point for understanding Cranmers influence and legacy in the Anglican church.

In his important evaluation of the theological leader of the English Reformation, G.W. Bromiley charts Cranmers doctrinal views, scriptural interpretation and liturgical composition. His nuanced position on various controversial issues of the day, not least baptism, is articulated with clarity and care, and his ecumenical sensitivity is foregrounded. While arguably more adept as a scholar than as a creative theologian in his own right, Cranmers writing nevertheless formed the cornerstone of future Anglican theology. Through his Articles of Religion (42, later reduced to 39) and the Book of Common Prayer, he set the parameters within which the Church of England was to operate. Perhaps most significantly, as Bromiley shows, his extensive citation of patristic sources established a precedent for his successors that continues today. Written by one of the great ecclesiastical historians of the twentieth century, Thomas Cranmer, Theologian is the essential starting point for understanding Cranmers influence and legacy in the Anglican church.

Navarra ya tuvo en 1525 su primera caza de brujas ochenta años antes de Zugarramurdi (1609-1610). Fue la empresa personal de un oscuro hidalgo, el licenciado Pedro de Balanza, oidor del Consejo Real de Navarra, con mandato obtenido del mismo consejo en nombre del emperador Carlos V. Fue la caza mas notable de toda la historia de España por su importancia cuantitativa, su momento historico, su desenlace y por haber motivado la Junta de Granada sobre las brujas (diciembre de 1526): primera consulta oficial de expertos a la Inquisicion española en materia de brujeria. Por el numero de condenas, confiscaciones y ejecuciones capitales, aquel episodio de 1525, poco conocido, supero con mucho al famoso de Zugarramurdi.Este libro, erudito y bien documentado, arroja luz sobre este episodio, que apenas habia sido objeto de estudio particular. Esta monografia es el segundo tomo de la Coleccion Henningsen, con la que la Universidad Publica de Navarra rinde homenaje a uno de los maximos especialistas a nivel mundial sobre brujeria e Inquisicion, el historiador y antropologo danes Gustav Henningsen, quien dono a la institucion academica su archivo y biblioteca personales.

Este libro constituye una invitación a pensar la historia de la infancia desde una mirada crítica e interdisciplinaria. Propone un acercamiento nuevo a viejos problemas de la historiografía tradicional, tales como el proceso de secularizacion iniciada durante el periodo del reformismo borbonico y la forma en que esta adapto una serie de expresiones religiosas en torno a la niñez para apropiarse de la figura utopica del niño martir y ponerla al servicio de la retorica estatal, a traves del culto a los heroes patrioticos y el utilitarismo propio de la epoca. Niños de nadie aborda asi el estudio de las nociones de utilidad y exclusion en torno a la niñez menesterosa (ya invisibilizada, ya recuperada por intervencion estatal), tanto en el discurso ilustrado como en las practicas filantropicas amparadas en el mismo. La expresion "niños de nadie" es empleada aqui en un sentido laxo. No se refiere solamente a los niños huerfanos o expositos, que fueron el objeto central de una serie de proyectos emprendidos por la administracion borbonica (tanto en la metropoli como en las colonias), sino tambien a aquellos que, aun sin haber sido abandonados por sus padres, se hallaban excluidos del ambito privilegiado de las familias que gozaban de cierto rango social y economico. Niños pobres y marginales, cuyo nombre y vinculos parentales, cuando los habian, estaban lejos de servir de parapeto frente a la larga mano del poder real y los proyectos reformistas de la administracion borbonica. "Niños de nadie", en tanto que el Estado podia disponer de ellos sin mayor reparo.

En esta obra se propicia un acercamiento al universo escriturario de la Edad Moderna de la mano de los escribanos públicos y de sus producciones documentales. En relación a los actores ejecutantes de la fides publica, se analizara su condicion social desde diversos prismas y fuentes, historicas y literarias, asi como el proceso de aprendizaje de su oficio y formacion previa adquirida. En relacion a los instrumentos publicos facturados en sus tiendas de escribania, se focalizara el analisis en aspectos tales como el proceso de expedicion documental, los caracteres extrinsecos e intrinsecos del documento notarial y el analisis de algunos modelos documentales especificos. Entre ellos, la carta de perdon de cuernos, los fletamentos o los documentos de prohijamiento, tutela y aprendiz, testimonios exclusivos todos para desentrañar los parametros sociales y el funcionamiento civil de la Modernidad.

En la Edad Moderna, alzar banderas contra su rey fue una empresa que pocos hombres se aventuraron a acometer. No en vano, en una sociedad que consideraba a sus reyes como representantes terrenales de la divinidad, resultaba extraño que los subditos se atrevieran a subvertir el orden politico desafiando abiertamente el poder de los monarcas, cuyo dominio se admitia generalmente de modo natural. De ahi la importancia de la rebelion aragonesa contra Felipe II, episodio que el presente volumen analiza ofreciendo una interpretacion critica con la historiografia tradicional.

Traducción al castellano de la obra “Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates: Witch-Hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614” editada en 2022 por la Universidad Estatal de Pensilvania (Estados Unidos), que abor