Inter timorem et spem: A Study of the Theological Thought of Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen (1367-1398)
Author: G.H. Gerrits
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9004476873
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The Stoic Origins of Erasmus' Philosophy of Christ
Author: Ross Dealy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2017-01-18
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1487511469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original and provocative engagement with Erasmus’ work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Ross Dealy offers novel readings of some lesser and well-known Erasmian texts and presents a detailed discussion of the reception of Stoicism in the Renaissance. In a considered interpretation of Erasmus’ De taedio Iesu, Dealy clearly shows the two-dimensional Stoic elements in Erasmus’ thought from an early time onward. Erasmus’ genuinely philosophical disposition is evidenced in an analysis of his edition of Cicero’s De officiis. Building on stoicism Erasmus shows that Christ’s suffering in Gethsemane was not about the triumph of spirit over flesh but about the simultaneous workings of two opposite but equally essential types of value: on the one side spirit and on the other involuntary and intractable natural instincts.
Spirituality Renewed
Author: Hein Blommestijn
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9789042913271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains nine essays on aspects of the Modern Devotion and its influence. Six studies deal with the spiritual development of important representatives of this late medieval church reform movement: Geert Grote, founder of the movement (two contributions), Jan Brinckerinck, Gerard Zerbolt van Zutphen (two contributions) and Alijt Bake, a female mystic who is not widely known outside the Low Countries. The three remaining studies bear upon the nunnery 'Sanct-Agnetenhuus' in Kampen, the devotion to Liduina, the 'Virgin of Schiedam', from the Middle Ages until the present day and a fifteenth-century ars moriendi here for the first time edited with full commentary. The collection has been edited by staff members of the Titus Brandsma Institute in Nijmegen. The study of the spirituality and history of the Modern Devotion is one of the key topics of interest in this Institute. An innovative analysis of aspects of Thomas a Kempis's De imitatione Christi is currently one of the focal points of the Institute's research. In 2003 Gerardi Magni Opera omnia, vol. I, Ad Gerardi Magni Opera omnia Prolegomena. Die Forschungslage des gesammten Schriftums und kritische Edition des Traktates Contra turrim Traiectensem was published in the Corpus Christianorum series, which contains a detailed inventory of the transmission and earlier editions of the works of Geert Grote by Rudolf Th. M. van Dijk O.Carm., to whom this collection of essays is dedicated.
City on the Ocean Sea: La Rochelle, 1530-1650
Author: Kevin C. Robbins
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9004477608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important volume presents the first comprehensive history of early modern La Rochelle, a port town whose fractious residents became embroiled in the French Reformations. Opening chapters situate the Rochelais within the geopolitics of an oceanic frontier, where urbanites created a strong, heavily armed civic government, in part because they perceived themselves as isolated civilizing agents surrounded by the savage inhabitants of a lawless environment. Analysis of the city's Reformation proceeds within this context of place and politics, showing how various ranks of the citizenry idiosyncratically adopted the tenets of Calvinism, amalgamating these salvific doctrines with traditional civic rites and values - to the consternation of more orthodox pastors. Juxtaposing serial sources from multiple archives, Robbins shows with innovative detail how local political and religious struggles intermeshed, setting the city and its Reformed congregations on a fatal collision course with the Bourbon monarchy. Concluding chapters examine how great aristocratic families, churchmen, and Catholic magistrates joined in a local Counter-Reformation, remaking urban power politics from the ground up.
Lord of the Sacred City: The Episcopus exclusus in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany
Author: Jeff J. Tyler
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9004475559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban histories have emphasized the rise of civic autonomy and proto-democracy. Based on chronicle and archival sources, this volume focuses on German bishops, former lords of the city and fierce opponents of civic freedom. The author investigates how bishops contested exclusion from political, economic, and religious dimensions of civic life (Episcopus exclusus), which culminated in the Protestant Reformation. Four chapters are devoted to episcopal expulsion throughout Germany and the cities of Constance and Augsburg in particular. A remarkable section explores the puzzle of the bishop's civic survival in the later Middle Ages, made possible through episcopal ritual. The emphasis on city, bishop, and ritual will be of special interest to urban historians as well as to scholars of medieval religion, the reformation, church history, church/state relations, and social history.
Community without Borders: Scots Migrants and the Changing Face of Power in the Dutch Republic, c. 1600-1700
Author: Douglas Catterall
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9004475575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a valuable book for anyone interested in the cultural meaning of preindustrial migration. Arguing that early modern European migrants could fundamentally influence their fate and their adopted communities, it explores the world of Scots migrants to the Dutch port of Rotterdam, c. 1600-1700. The heart of the study is a reconstruction of the social networks that Scots used to establish and sustain themselves in Rotterdam, drawn from unusually rich narrative sources. Through their social ties, Scots also told stories and kept memories as they created complex identities encompassing Rotterdam, Scotland, and places further afield. By shaping their relationships to Rotterdam, Scots had a broad impact on their adopted home. Their actions helped change Rotterdam’s political, religious, and legal fabric and even tied Rotterdam to the wider Atlantic world.
Honor Your Fathers: Catechisms and the Emergence of a Patriarchal Ideology in Germany, 1400-1600
Author: Robert J. Bast
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9004474994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a fresh perspective on the patriarchal ideology of reform in early modern Germany by revealing its roots in a pan-European catechetical program that had endured a cyclical process of growth and decline since the twelfth century, with each new phase sparked by crises in Church and society. Based on sermons, reform ordinances, devotional treatises and especially catechisms, the book explores the programs developed by reformers and codified in works of religious indoctrination designed to fashion godly fathers (real and metaphorical) in home, church, and body politic. The chief product of this program, argues the author, was an ethos of social discipline that permeated the institutions of each major confession, with government gradually empowered to reach more deeply than ever before into the lives of its subjects.
The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England 1541-1588
Author: Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9004476318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first comprehensive study of the work of the Society of Jesus in the British Isles during the sixteenth century. Beginning with an account of brief papal missions to Ireland (1541) and Scotland (1562), it goes on to cover the foundation of a permanent mission to England (1580) and the frustration of Catholic hopes with the failure of the Spanish Armada (1588). Throughout the book, the activities of the Jesuits - preaching, propaganda, prayer and politics - are set within a wider European context, and within the framework of the Society's Constitutions. In particular, the sections on religious life and involvement in diplomacy show how flexibly the Jesuits adapted their "way of proceeding" to the religious and political circumstances of the British Isles, and to the demands of the Counter-Reformation.
Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700
Author: Karl A.E. Enenkel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 613
ISBN-13: 9004440402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.
The Primacy of the Postils
Author: John M. Frymire
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9004180362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on an extensive collection of Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist sermon collections (postils), this book offers the first comprehensive, systematic presentation of standard preaching texts in early modern Germany including their creation, print production, use, and censorship.
