Transregional Reformations

Crossing Borders in Early Modern Europe

Contributions by Tóth Zsombor Contributions by Michel Boeglin Contributions by Kajsa Brilkman Contributions by Barbara B. Diefendorf Contributions by Wim François Contributions by Gábor Ittzés Contributions by Grazyna Jurkowlaniec Contributions by Johannes M. Müller Contributions by Timothy J. Orr Contributions by Christiaan Ravensbergen Contributions by Violet Soen Contributions by Alexander Soetaert Contributions by Jonas van Tol Contributions by Johan Verberckmoes Contributions by Alexandra Walsham Edited by Violet Soen Edited by Alexander Soetaert Edited by Johan Verberckmoes Edited by Wim François Associate editor Christopher B. Brown Associate editor Günter Frank Associate editor Bruce Gordon Associate editor Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer Associate editor Tarald Rasmussen Associate editor Violet Soen Associate editor Tóth Zsombor Associate editor Günther Wassilowsky Associate editor Siegrid Westphal

Book cover: Transregional Reformations

Extent: 377 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(June 2019)

ISBN: 9783525564707

6.34 x 9.25 inches

Price: $163.00

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Cross-border movements in Catholic and Protestant Reformations, investigated thematically broad and with a wide geographical range


This volume invites scholars of the Catholic and Protestant Reformations to incorporate recent advances in transnational and transregional history into their own field of research, as it seeks to unravel how cross-border movements shaped reformations in early modern Europe. Covering a geographical space that ranges from Scandinavia to Spain and from England to Hungary, the chapters in this volume apply a transregional perspective to a vast array of topics, such as the history of theological discussion, knowledge transfer, pastoral care, visual allegory, ecclesiastical organization, confessional relations, religious exile, and university politics.The volume starts by showing in a first part how transfer and exchange beyond territorial circumscriptions or proto-national identifications shaped many sixteenth-century reformations. The second part of this volume is devoted to the acceleration of cultural transfer that resulted from the newly-invented printing press, by translation as well as transmission of texts and images. The third and final part of this volume examines the importance of mobility and migration in causing transregional reformations. Focusing on the process of ‘crossing borders’ in peripheries and borderlands, all chapters contribute to the de-centering of religious reform in early modern Europe. Rather than princes and urban governments steering religion, the early modern reformations emerge as events shaped by authors and translators, publishers and booksellers, students and professors, exiles and refugees, and clergy and (female) members of religious orders crossing borders in Europe, a continent composed of fractured states and regions.

  • Contributions by Tóth Zsombor
  • Contributions by Michel Boeglin
  • Contributions by Kajsa Brilkman
  • Contributions by Barbara B. Diefendorf
  • Contributions by Wim François
  • Contributions by Gábor Ittzés
  • Contributions by Grazyna Jurkowlaniec
  • Contributions by Johannes M. Müller
  • Contributions by Timothy J. Orr
  • Contributions by Christiaan Ravensbergen
  • Contributions by Violet Soen
  • Contributions by Alexander Soetaert
  • Contributions by Jonas van Tol
  • Contributions by Johan Verberckmoes
  • Contributions by Alexandra Walsham
  • Edited by Violet Soen
  • Edited by Alexander Soetaert
  • Edited by Johan Verberckmoes
  • Edited by Wim François
  • Associate editor Christopher B. Brown
  • Associate editor Günter Frank
  • Associate editor Bruce Gordon
  • Associate editor Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer
  • Associate editor Tarald Rasmussen
  • Associate editor Violet Soen
  • Associate editor Tóth Zsombor
  • Associate editor Günther Wassilowsky
  • Associate editor Siegrid Westphal