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This volume examines both the events that shaped the Jacobean Witchcraft Act, and its subsequent impact on the culture and society of seventeenth-century England until its repeal in 1736.
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Examining the works of the prominent first and second generation Lutheran reformers, this book offers a detailed analysis of the development of the doctrine of justification in the thought of Martin Luther and his immediate successors.
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This collection of twelve new essays examines the role of women and of gender in a broad range of ‘radical’ beliefs and practices in post-Reformation Europe. Included are German Anabaptists, English Quakers, prophetesses, and unorthodox Catholic nuns.
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This volume provides the first full study of Sambucus’ influential Neo-Latin emblem book. By analysing individual emblems and the historical contexts in which they were shaped, a new picture emerges of the use of the emblem for Renaissance humanists.
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This book presents a new model for analyzing Calvin’s biblical interpretation, rescuing him from the quagmire of anachronistic interpretations. Concentrating upon Calvin’s description of biblical interpretation, the book suggests new insights for hermeneutics, exegesis in the Reformations, and ...
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These twenty-three essays explore the historiographies of the Reformation from the fifteenth century to the present and study the history of religion from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, especially in Germany but also in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and colonial Mexico.
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This engaging, meticulously documented examination of Herbert of Bosham’s twelfth-century psalms commentary, which used Hebrew sources, locates the commentary’s author at the nexus of contemporary intellectual and social movements and presents a nuanced, integrated perspective on medieval ...
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Based on a rich variety of sources this book analyses the concept of amor patria (love of country) as a key element in 16th and 17th century political thought and its use in the pamphlet propaganda of the political and religious conflicts after the Reformation in Germany.
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This is the first comprehensive study of the early modern logic of ideas, whose main representative were Descartes and Locke. It is also a profound contribution to our understanding between Aristotelianism and the new philosophy, between rationalism and empiricism, and between French, English ...
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The ideas of philosophers (Ficino, Pico, Della Porta, Bruno) on magic interfered with popular alternative and witchcraft rites. This book focuses on “wandering scholastics” (Trithemius, Agrippa, Paracelsus, Bruno) and will be a stimulating read for all those interested in Renaissance mentality.