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.
Author(s): James E. Kelly, Henning Laugerud, Salvador Ryan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 440
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
Lost Connections?
The Project
Structure
Slow Reformations
Migration, Exile and Interconnections
Zones of Circulation: Transfer of Ideas and People
Appropriations and Adaptations
Northern European Reformations Over the Longue Durée
Part I Slow Reformations
2 Reformation on Scotland’s Northern Frontier: The Orkney Islands, 1560–c.1700
Reformed by Bishops?
Environmental Challenges
Witchcraft and “Superstition”
Conclusion
Bibliography
3 The Sidaskipti: Iceland’s Change of Fashion
The Arrival of Reformation
The Death Throes of the Old Faith
The Death of a Bishop and the Passing of Catholic Iceland
Bibliography
4 “Another Age Will Damage and Destroy”: The Radicalised Reformation in Denmark-Norway in the Later Part of the Sixteenth Century
Leniency and Patience
Radicalisation
Upholding the Distance
The Removal of Images in Bergen 1570
Targeting Devotional Life
Closing of Chapels and Churches
Abolishing Devotional Practices and Instruments
Conclusion
Bibliography
Part II Migration, Exile and Interconnections
5 Reformation Across the North Sea: Early Protestant Connections Between Denmark, England and Scotland
Trade, Humanism and Political Struggles
Religious Refugees
Machabeus and Coverdale in Copenhagen
Student Travels and Learned Networks
Conclusion
Bibliography
6 Confessional Migration and Religious Change in the Northern European Reformations
The Migration of Clergy
Conclusion
Bibliography
7 Exiles and Activists: A Comparison of the Counter-Reformation in Wales and Norway
The Change of Religion
The Influence of the Seminaries
The Influence of the Hierarchy
Missionary Writers
The Conditions of Mission
Print and Manuscript
Resurrecting Pilgrimage
Bibliography
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 North
Introduction
Linguistic Diversity in Shetland and Orkney
Language and Reform
Conclusion
Bibliography
9 “Nullus”: The Ending of Conventual Religious Life in Denmark–Norway, England and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland
Dissolutions
Observants
Changes and Claims
Remembering Dissolution
Bibliography
Part IV Appropriations and Adaptations
10 Devotion in Transition: The Practice of Appropriation of Danish and British Medieval Prayer Books
The Alteration of English Prayer Books
The Alteration of Danish Prayer Books
Places of Appropriation
Bibliography
11 The Martyrdom of St Edmund (d. 869) at the Hands of the Danes and Its Legacy in Early Modern England
Edmund, King and Martyr
Edmund and the English Monarchy
Edmund’s Reformation Fortunes
Edmund in Protestant Historiography
Endurance, St Edmund, and St Olaf
Bibliography
12 Seventeenth-Century Ireland and Norway: Peripheral Reformations in Print?
The Late Arrival of Print in Norway and Ireland
Language and Literacy
The Role of Orality
The Experience of Print
Understanding Peripherality
Bibliography
Part V Northern European Reformations over the Longue Durée
13 Books from the British Isles in the Collections of the Eighteenth-Century Norwegian Clergy
Clerics as Officials
What Conformity Meant
‘Desirable’ Books
The ‘Open’ World of the Clergy
Books Originating in the British Isles
Bestsellers—Bayly, Baxter, Dyke and Watson
Conclusion
Bibliography
14 ‘Superstition’ in the Reformation Polemics of England and Denmark-Norway - and the Emergence of Folklore and Popular Religion
Disciplining ‘Superstition’
Reformation and Religious Difference in Denmark-Norway
Catholicism Redefined as Superstitio
Textual and Visual Means for Turning Catholicism into ‘Superstition’
Collocating Witchcraft and Catholicism
Superstition and Folklore
The Disciplinary Afterlife of ‘Superstition’
Bibliography
15 The Missionary Problem in Early Modern Protestantism: British, Irish and Scandinavian Perspectives
The Missionary Problem
The Role of Theology
Near Barbarians and Far Barbarians
Structures and Institutions
Pietism, Evangelicalism and the Unravelling of the Knot
Bibliography
16 Epilogue
Index
