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Martyria
Im Gesprächsprozess der katholischen Kirche werden aktuelle Fragen für die Kirche auf ihrem Weg in die Zukunft diskutiert: Wie kann unter den Bedingungen der Religionsfreiheit und des säkularen Pluralismus Glaube bezeugt und weitergegeben werden? Wie kann dieses Zeugnis in seiner Schwäche und Brüchigkeit zum Ort werden, wo Gottes Kraft und Wahrheit erfahrbar sind (1 Kor 2)? Die Beiträge reflektieren diese Herausforderungen unter verschiedenen Aspekten: der Verlust einer lebensweltlichen und biografischen Einbettung des Glaubens, der Dialektik von dialogischer Öffnung und identifizierbarem Bekenntnis, den Bewährungsorten Religionsunterricht und Mediengesellschaft, der Option für eine evangelisierende Kirche der Armen, der Predigt als einem Raumgeben für die Kraft des Gotteswortes.
State and Society in Early Modern Austria
The history of the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria in the early modern period continues to capture the interest of many scholars. This collection of essays by twenty leading authorities from the United States, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands focuses on the interplay between the Habsburg government and a multiplicity of social aspects. As a whole, State and Society in Early Modern Austria reexamines and sometimes debunks old views about the Habsburg Monarchy and provides insight into the state of current historical thinking on the early modern state. Moreover, this broad focus will help the reader understand the complex cultural heritage of the turbulent nationalities of Ea...
Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western Christianity
The history of the vexed relationship between clergy and warfare is traced through a careful examination of canon law.
The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours
St Martin of Tours is one of Christianity’s major saints and his significance reaches far beyond the powerful radiance of his iconic act of charity. While the saint and his cult have been researched comprehensively in Germany and France, his cult in the British Isles proves to be fairly unexplored. Andre Mertens closes this gap for Anglo-Saxon England by editing all the age’s surviving texts on the saint, including a commentary and translations. Moreover, Mertens looks beyond the horizon of the surviving body of literary relics and dedicates an introductory study to an analysis of the saint’s cult in Anglo-Saxon England and his significance for Anglo-Saxon culture.
Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht, C.1350
First English translation and detailed commentary of a fourteenth-century Low-German work about the Near and Middle East. That extensive travel took place during the Middle Ages has long been established, via such accounts as, for example, Marco Polo's Devisement du Monde; but there remains a relative paucity of documents or narratives confirming and dealing with this phenomenon. Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht ("An Account of the Middle East"), composed around 1350/55 by an anonymous author in Low German, is powerful evidence of international relations between east and west during this period; it provides extensive information, dealing with such matters as the local culture, fauna and fl...
The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770
The second edition of The World of Catholic Renewal offers an updated synthesis of the vast scholarship on the history of Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the sixteenth century to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century. Professor Hsia discusses the doctrinal and ecclesiastical renewal after Trent and the progress of Catholic reconquest in various lands. He analyses the social composition of the Tridentine clergy and the papal curia and studies the making of early modern sainthood and the enclosure of religious women. Encompassing art and architecture, Ronnie Hsia attempts to understand Catholic renewal as a vast historical development that shaped European civilization and also explores its expansion and encounter with non-Christian cultures in America, Africa, and Asia. The new edition of this acclaimed textbook offers an additional chapter on The Catholic Book as well as an updated bibliography.
The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487–1726
A detailed reconstruction of peasant society in early modern Germany, focusing on the lands of the Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren. Based on a mass of archival data, the book argues that the German rural economy performed much better than has previously been believed.
Kölner Reliquien
Wieso hilft der heilige Valentin mit Gehirnschale und Wasser gegen die Fallsucht und der Katakombenheilige Donatus gegen den Donner? Wie viele Reliquien gibt es im Rheinland? Warum werden sie verehrt - und vor allem: wie? Fragen über Fragen. Die Antworten, verbunden mit außergewöhnlichen und unterhaltsamen Geschichten, hat nach dem großen Erfolg von "Heilige in Köln - Ein bisschen schräg, ein Stückchen anders" das Autorenduo Manfred Becker-Huberti und Konrad Beikircher gefunden. Mit Witz und Charme werden die Reliquien auf neue Weise betrachtet und bringen Unglaubliches und Schräges hervor.
Defining Community in Early Modern Europe
Numerous historical studies use the term "community'" to express or comment on social relationships within geographic, religious, political, social, or literary settings, yet this volume is the first systematic attempt to collect together important examples of this varied work in order to draw comparisons and conclusions about the definition of community across early modern Europe. Offering a variety of historical and theoretical approaches, the sixteen original essays in this collection survey major regions of Western Europe, including France, Geneva, the German Lands, Italy and the Spanish Empire, the Netherlands, England, and Scotland. Complementing the regional diversity is a broad spect...
Confessionalization in Europe, 1555–1700
Confessionalization in Europe, 1555-1700 brings together a closely-focused set of essays by leading scholars from the USA, UK, and Europe, in memory of Bodo Nischan. They address what historians of the Early Modern period have recently come to define as the pre-eminent issue in the history of the Reformation, as they turn their emphases from the earlier part of the 16th century to the relatively neglected latter half of the century. By the time of his death Bodo Nischan had distinguished himself as a significant contributor to this central problem of confessionalization. The concept involves the practice of 'confession building' which in relation to that of 'social disciplining', promoted in...
