Northern European Reformations: Transnational Perspectives

by James E. Kelly (Editor), Henning Laugerud (Editor), Salvador Ryan (Editor)

Overview

This book examines the experiences and interconnections of the Reformations, principally in Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland (but with an eye to the broader Scandinavian landscape as well), and also discusses instances of similarities between the Reformations in both realms. The volume features a comprehensive introduction, and provides a broad survey of the beginnings and progress of the Catholic and Protestant Reformations in Northern Europe, while also highlighting themes of comparison that are common to all of the bloc under consideration, which will be of interest to Reformation scholars across this geographical region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030544584
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	09/22/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
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About the Author

James E. Kelly is Sweeting Fellow in the History of Catholicism, Durham University, UK
Henning Laugerud is Associate Professor, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.
Salvador Ryan is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the Pontifical University, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Ireland. 

Table of Contents

1. IntroductionJames E. Kelly, Henning Laugerud and Salvador Ryan
Part I: Slow Reformations 
2. Reformation on Scotland’s Northern Frontier: The Orkney Islands, 1560-c.1700Peter Marshall
3. The Sidaskipti: Iceland’s Change of FashionJack P. Cunningham
4. “Another Age Will Damage and Destroy”: The Radicalized Reformation in Denmark-Norway in the Later Part of the Sixteenth CenturyHenrik von Achen 
Part II: Migration, Exile and Interconnections
5. Reformation Across the North Sea: Early Protestant Connections between Denmark, England, and ScotlandMorten Fink-Jensen
6. Confessional Migration and Religious Change in the Northern European ReformationsTadhg Ó hAnnracháin
7. Exiles and Activists: A Comparison of the Counter-Reformation in Wales and NorwayJames January-McCann



Part III: Zones of Circulation: Transfer of Ideas and People
8. “Islands not Far from Norway, Denmark and Germany”: Shetland, Orkney and the Spread of the Reformation in the NorthCharlotte Methuen
9. “Nullus”: the Ending of Conventual Religious Life in Denmark-Norway, England and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland.John McCafferty
Part IV: Appropriations and Adaptations
10. Devotion in Transition: The Practice of Appropriation of Danish and British Medieval Prayer BooksLaura Katrine Skinnebach
11. The Martyrdom of St Edmund (d. 869) at the Hands of the Danes and its Legacy in Early Modern EnglandSusan Royal
12. Seventeenth-Century Ireland and Norway: Peripheral Reformations in Print? Raymond Gillespie
Part V: Northern European Reformations over the Longue Durée
13. Books from the British Isles in the Collections of the Eighteenth-Century Norwegian ClergyGina Dahl
14. “Superstition” in the Reformation Polemics of England and Denmark-Norway – and the Emergence of Folklore and Popular ReligionHenning Laugerud&John Ødemark
15. The Missionary Problem in Early Modern Protestantism: British, Irish and Scandinavian PerspectivesAlec Ryrie
16. EpilogueCarlos Eire

Editorial Reviews

The three editors of this volume are to be congratulated on their thought-provoking, clearly structured and beautifully integrated anthology … . the book greatly improves our understanding of the reformations of the early modern period and I commend it wholeheartedly to all interested readers.” (Margit Thofner, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 72 (4), October, 2021)

“The editors have performed splendidly, avoiding almost all the pitfalls of a multi-authored collection, including that of categorising their contributors conveniently rather than coherently. The essays speak fluently to one another and there is impressive cross-referencing, sure evidence of thorough and thoughtful editorial attention.” (Thomas O’Connor, Studia Hibernica, Vol. 47 (1), October, 2021)

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