{"title":"Objects in Frames: Displaying Foreign Collectibles in Early Modern China and Europe","authors":"Elisa Frei","doi":"10.1080/14622459.2021.1925481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2021.1925481","url":null,"abstract":"income of £1,085 annually and valuable plate, jewels and vestments. The House of Commons came to St Stephen’s from the Abbey c. 1550; the first reference is from 1550 to the upper chapel. The only evidence for money spent adapting the chapel comes from a summary account of 1559 – £34 9s 6d. The House of Lords was meeting in the Queen’s Chamber in the palace, and thus greater co-ordination of activity was possible. This book is an enlightening and thoroughly-researched study of the history of St Stephen’s College, Westminster. It is an impressive attempt to reconstruct the history of the institution, now buried beneath the current palace of Westminster, from a variety of sources. There is deft argumentation, for example in the new dating of the sixteenth century cloister, which survives but is heavily restored. It is, however, disappointing that so little evidence survives from the Reformation period to enable a stronger picture to be painted. There are one or two typos in the printing of the book – (126) ‘St Stephen’s fit well’ should be ‘St Stephen’s fits well’; (153) ‘Chapel Roayl’ should be ‘Chapel Royal’. The book represents a definitive account of the history of a secular college in England and, as such, will serve as a valuable model for future scholarship.","PeriodicalId":41309,"journal":{"name":"REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE REVIEW","volume":"77 9","pages":"189 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14622459.2021.1925481","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72394388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hymnal (1543) of Andreas Moldner: Spiritual Openness and Ethical Emphasis in the Urban Reformation of Kronstadt (Transylvania)","authors":"U. A. Wien","doi":"10.1080/14622459.2021.1923267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2021.1923267","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A Hymnal of Eight Songs from Kronstadt in Siebenbürgen/Transylvania (Braşov/Romania) has long not enjoyed the reputation it deserves. Only one copy is extant, only coming to light 1883. Along with the Reformatio Ecclesiae Coronensis and the Constitutio Scholae Coronensis, this early hymnal belongs to the three ‘programmatic texts' of the humanist municipal Reformation (Germ. Stadtreformation) of Kronstadt. These were all printed in 1543 by the print-shop of Honterus. The content indicates a relationship to the Anabaptists and Bohemian Brethren, which has until now been considered incompatible with the city-Reformation praised by Wittenberg. This essay presents plausible research that spiritual openness was an expression of the self-understanding of the prominent figures of Kronstadt's reformed church. They formulated this in polemical demarcation from the attempted reforms by the Old Believers (those faithful to the pre-Tridentine/papal faith). Heavily emphasizing ethical behaviour in their piety of the heart, the Humanist reformers in Kronstadt integrated the Bible-oriented norms of the Baptists and Bohemian Brethren into their concept of reformation.","PeriodicalId":41309,"journal":{"name":"REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE REVIEW","volume":"7 1","pages":"134 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75085127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte: Content Analysis and Publication Characteristics","authors":"G. Wittig","doi":"10.1080/14622459.2021.1873223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2021.1873223","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte is a leading journal in the area of Reformation history with a long publication history. Content analysis, as a means toward understanding publication patterns, has been frequently used to study hard and soft science periodicals but seldom used to examine religion-oriented journals. This study was designed to describe a number of publication characteristics about the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte over a new twenty-five year span (an expansion of an earlier study) culminating in a fifty year assessment. Results are presented on authorship (gender, language, institutional affiliations, and country of residence) subject content (Reformation figure geographic location, and dates), a review of the Board of Editors, a couple of other special features and a concluding analysis.","PeriodicalId":41309,"journal":{"name":"REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE REVIEW","volume":"4 1","pages":"92 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89541150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representing England in Rome: Sermons from the Early Modern English College to Popes and Cardinals","authors":"Lucy Underwood","doi":"10.1080/14622459.2020.1869436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2020.1869436","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores how preaching at the English College in Rome, c.1580–1603, can illuminate questions of national identity, Anglo-Italian exchanges, inter-confessional conflict and the symbiotic relationship of religious and national identities for English Catholics. It investigates in detail texts from a hitherto little-studied manuscript at the English College, Rome, whose large collection of homiletic and other rhetorical texts offers an unequalled insight into preaching at the College and adds valuably to our knowledge of preaching in Counter-Reformation Rome. The article looks at how English College preachers dealt with subjects such as persecution and martyrdom, England's ‘apostasy’, England's history and relations with Rome, and their place in the international Church. It reveals how the College and its members positioned themselves in both their English and their Roman contexts.","PeriodicalId":41309,"journal":{"name":"REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE REVIEW","volume":"9 1","pages":"4 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84266856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solus Verus Deus: Francis Cheynell and the Johannine Trinity","authors":"S. Slavinski","doi":"10.1080/14622459.2020.1869372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2020.1869372","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Scholars have identified the crucial importance of Johannine theology in the early modern anti-Trinitarian and Trinitarian debates. This article investigates Francis Cheynell’s defence of a Trinitarian reading of John 17:3, a highly controversial text in these debates. Modern scholarship has left implicit the significance of John 17:3. Consequently, this article argues that, from Cheynell’s perspective, John 17:3 was the key text upon which Socinian rationalism found its compelling exegetical foothold and necessitated a Trinitarian response. This article demonstrates that Cheynell, in his exegesis of John 17:3, pursued a Nicene-Augustinian metaphysical line of literal exegesis to counter the unipersonal humanist thrust of Socinian exegesis. Indeed, this article advances the thesis that Johannine theology was at the forefront of the early modern polemics surrounding the Trinity. It also highlights the importance of the influence of Nicene-Augustinian thought upon the early modern Trinitarian reception of John’s Gospel.","PeriodicalId":41309,"journal":{"name":"REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE REVIEW","volume":"5 1","pages":"68 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74943313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The Devil Went Down to Oksa': Demonic Visitation and Calvinist Piety in Mid-Seventeenth Century Poland","authors":"K. Bem","doi":"10.1080/14622459.2021.1871804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2021.1871804","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses a 1649 incident involving an alleged haunting of Oksa – a small, private Calvinist town near Cracow, Poland. This event is recounted in a contemporary primary source, until now almost completely overlooked by historians of Polish Reformation. The alleged demonic visitation shines a light on Polish Calvinist piety and the strength of the Reformed ministry during a time of Calvinist numerical decline. The article argues that even as the fortunes of the Reformed Church in Poland were receding, the faithful in Oksa embarked in 1649 on a small-scale further reformation demonstrating a remarkable vitality of their devotional and congregational life and similarities to Dutch Nadere Reformatie with which the town's owner and pastor were well acquainted with. Finally, the article provides an explanation of the 1649 events by considering Roman Catholic strategies of suppressing Polish Calvinism.","PeriodicalId":41309,"journal":{"name":"REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE REVIEW","volume":"28 1","pages":"48 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78707208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reformation in Private Towns in the Polish Crown in the 16th Century","authors":"J. Wijaczka","doi":"10.1080/14622459.2020.1871238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2020.1871238","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article summarises the state of research concerning the Reformation in private towns in the Polish Crown (Kingdom). The main question considered is whether the noble town owners forced the inhabitants to accept the confession they themselves professed. The geographical scope of the article covers two provinces of the Crown: Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) and Lesser Poland (Małopolska), as in the third of them, Royal Prussia, there were no private towns in the 16th century.","PeriodicalId":41309,"journal":{"name":"REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE REVIEW","volume":"49 1","pages":"27 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82092449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London: Communities and Reform","authors":"Harry Spillane","doi":"10.1080/14622459.2020.1843766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2020.1843766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41309,"journal":{"name":"REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE REVIEW","volume":"11 1","pages":"256 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73223851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Portrait of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt by Lucas Cranach the Elder","authors":"Alejandro Zorzin","doi":"10.1080/14622459.2020.1807762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2020.1807762","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The traditional facial portrait of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt has significantly influenced his reception. His apparently sole authentic image was not known until 1988. It is a small woodcut on a broadsheet printed in commemoration of his death in Basel (1541). Previously, the notion was widespread that he was of a swarthy, (almost) negroid (nigricans) appearance. However, there is a double portrait, dated 1522, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, of an anonymous man and bride, and known to the scholarly world since the 1920s. A comparison of the features of the 1541 Basel portrait with those of the unknown man on the Cranach painting indicates that they quite possibly depict the same person. Since Karlstadt’s wedding with Anna von Mochau took place on 19 January 1522, there are strong reasons to surmise that the these Cranach portraitures were made for the private possession of the Reformer and his wife.","PeriodicalId":41309,"journal":{"name":"REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE REVIEW","volume":"1 1","pages":"238 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83402057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The English Reformation: A Very Brief History","authors":"P. Ayris","doi":"10.1080/14622459.2020.1843762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2020.1843762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41309,"journal":{"name":"REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE REVIEW","volume":"30 1","pages":"253 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85999171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}