Reforming Reformation

266 Pages·2012·2.254 MB·English

by  Thomas F. Mayer

The Reformation used to be singular: a unique event that happened within a tidily
circumscribed period of time, in a tightly constrained area and largely because of a
single individual. Few students of early modern Europe would now accept this view.
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Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700
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Reforming Reformation
This volume is dedicated to Ron Thiemann from his colleagues
with affection and esteem.
Reforming Reformation
Edited by
Thomas F. mayER
Augustana College, USA
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Mayer, Thomas F. (Thomas Frederick), 1951-
Reforming Reformation. -- (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)
1. Counter-Reformation. 2. Counter-Reformation in
literature. 3. Counter-Reformation in art.
I. Title II. series
282’.09031-dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reforming reformation / edited by Thomas F. mayer.
pages cm -- (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)
Includes indexes.
ISBN 978-1-4094-5154-9 (hardcover) - - 1.
Reformation. 2. Counter-Reformation. I. mayer, Thomas F. (Thomas Freder-
ick), 1951-
BR305.3.R45 2012
270.6--dc23
2012034193
ISBN 9781409451549 (hbk)
Contents
List of Figures vii
Contributors ix
Series Editor’s Preface xiii
Introduction 1
PART I Long-term Perspectives Toward the Present
1 Reforming the Reformation:
God’s Truth and the Exercise of Power 17
Brad S. Gregory
2 Confessionalization, Confessionalism and
Confusion in the English Reformation 43
Peter Marshall
3 sacramental Realism:
Relocating the Sacred 65
Ronald F. Thiemann
PART II From the General to the Particular and Back
4 “Local Knowledge” and Catholic Reform in
Early modern spain 81
Lu Ann Homza
5 First Friar, Problematic Founder:
John of the Cross in his Earliest Biographies 103
Jodi Bilinkoff
6 Soul Talk and Reformation in England 119
Anne Overell
7 Fray Bartolomé Carranza’s Blueprint for a
Reformed Catholic Church in England 141
John Edwards
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PART III Trent and its Impact
8 German Catholics, Catholic sermons, and
Roman Catholicism in Reformation Germany:
Reconfiguring Catholicism in the Holy Roman Empire 163
John M. Frymire
9 Re-Writing Trent, or What happened to
Italian Literature in the Wake of the First
Indexes of Prohibited Books? 197
Abigail Brundin
10 after Trent:
The Catholic Reform of Paintings 219
Marcia B. Hall
Index 241
List of Figures
3.1 Giotto, crucifixion fresco painted in the Arena Chapel,
Padua (c. 1300). 71
3.2 Giovanni Bellini, Baptism of Christ (1502). 72
3.3 andrea mantegna, Crucifixion (1457–1459). 73
3.4 Mathias von Grünewald, Isenheimer Altar (1512–1515). 74
3.5 Lucas Cranach the Elder, Predella of the Wittenberg
Altar (1547). 75
3.6 Rembrandt, The Holy Family or The Carpenter’s
Household (1640). 76
10.1 Federico Barocci, Visitation (1583–1586). Oil on
canvas. S. Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova), Rome.
Photo Credit : scala / art Resource, Ny. 228
10.2 Scipione Pulzone (1550–1598) The Lamentation
(1593). Oil on canvas. Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in
memory of Terence Cardinal Cooke, 1984 (1984.74).
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Photo
Credit: Image copyright © The metropolitan museum
of art / art Resource, Ny. 229
10.3 Titian, Christ Carrying the Cross (detail) (1570). Oil
on canvas. Prado, madrid. Photo Credit: scala / art
Resource, Ny. 231
10.4 Francesco salviati, Doubting Thomas (c.1547). Louvre,
Paris. Photo Credit: Erich Lessing / art Resource, Ny. 233
10.5 Titian, Christ Carrying the Cross (detail) (1570). Oil
on canvas. Prado, madrid. Photo Credit: scala / art
Resource, Ny. 233
10.6 Paolo Veronese, Martyrdom of Saint George (1564).
s. Giorgio in Braida, Verona. Photo Credit: scala / art
Resource, Ny. 235
10.7 Paolo Veronese, The Consecration of Saint Nicholas
(1561–62). Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London.
Photo Credit: © National Gallery, London / art
Resource, NY. 236
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10.8 Paolo Veronese, Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
(1570s). Oil on canvas. Accademia, Venice. Photo
Credit: scala/ministero per i Beni e le attività culturali /
art Resource, Ny. 237
Contributors
Jodi Bilinkoff is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. She is the author of The Avila of Saint Teresa: Religious Reform
in a Sixteenth-Century City (1989, 1992), Related Lives: Confessors and their
Female Penitents, 1450–1750 (2005), and co-editor, with Allan Greer, of
Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500–1800 (2003).
Abigail Brundin is senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Cambridge,
and a fellow of st Catharine’s College. Recent publications include Vittoria
Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation (ashgate
2008), and Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy (ashgate, 2009, co-
edited with Matthew Treherne). In 2009–10 she was a fellow of Villa I Tatti:
The harvard University Center for the study of the Italian Renaissance.
John Edwards is a senior Research Fellow in spanish at the University
of oxford, and has published extensively on spanish religion and society
in the early modern period. his major biography, Mary I. England’s
Catholic Queen, is published by yale University Press.
John M. Frymire began studying the hard sciences as a Presidential scholar
at augustana College in 1984. after changing course radically, Frymire
completed a PhD in the program of late medieval and reformation studies
under the supervision of Heiko A. Oberman at the University of Arizona.
his research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the Institut
für europäische Geschichte (Mainz), the Institut für Spätmittelalter und
Reformation (Tübingen), and the Internationales Forschungszentrum
Kulturwissenschaften (Vienna). Now an associate professor in the History
Department at the University of missouri, he teaches and conducts research
on the holy Roman Empire and, to a lesser extent, Italy. he has recently
published The Primacy of the Postils: Catholics, Protestants, and the
Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany (Leiden, 2010), and as
an assistant professor was awarded the campus-wide Provost’s outstanding
Junior Faculty Teaching Award by the University of Missouri in 2006.
Peter Marshall is Professor of Early modern Religious and Cultural
History at the University of Warwick. His books include Beliefs and the