Parish Churches in the Early Modern World

by Andrew Spicer (Editor)

Overview

Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities. In spite of the importance of the parish church, these buildings have generally not received the same attention from historians as non-parochial places of worship. This collection of essays redresses this balance and reflects on the parish church across a number of confessions during the early modern period. This volume seeks to identify what was distinctive about the parish church for the congregations that gathered in them for worship and for communities across the early modern world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472446084
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2015
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andrew Spicer is Professor of Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University.

Table of Contents

Preface; The early modern parish church: an introduction, Andrew Spicer; Patrician and episcopal rivalry for the Milanese parish church: San Nazaro in Brolo during French and Spanish rule, Philippa Woodcock; Exploring the features and challenges of the urban parish church in the southern Low Countries: the case of 16th-century Ghent, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene; The Counter Reformation and the parish church in western Brittany (France) 1500-1700, Elizabeth Tingle; The body of the faithful: Joseph Furttenbach’s 1649 Lutheran Church plans, Emily Fisher Gray; Staging the Eucharist, adiaphora, and shaping Lutheran identities in the Transylvanian parish church, Evelin Wetter; Parish churches in Geneva and the Swiss Romande, Andrew Spicer; ‘Which of them do belong to the parish or not’: the changing rural parish in the Dutch Republic after the Reformation, Arjan Nobel; Unitarian parish churches in early modern Transylvania, Maria Craciun; Heaven on earth: churches in early modern Hispanic America, Andrew Redden; Franciscans and the parish in early modern Brazil, Ivan Cavalcanti Filho; Parish churches, colonization and conversion in Portuguese Goa, Mallica Kumbera Landrus; Dutch churches in Asia, Andrew Spicer; ‘To build up the walls of Jerusalem’: Anglican churches in 17th-century Virginia, Carl Lounsbury; Parish churches in the early modern world: an afterword, Beat Kümi; Index