These twenty-three essays, presented by students, colleagues, and friends to Thomas A. Brady, Jr., the Sather Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, explore the historiographies of the Reformation from the fifteenth century to the present and study the social and cultural history of religion from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, especially in Germany but also in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and colonial Mexico.
Contributors include: Dean Bell, Peter Blickle, Christoph Burger, Roger Chickering, Constantin Fasolt, Kaspar von Greyerz, Bernd Hamm, Craig Harline, Joel Harrington, Susan Karant-Nunn, Greta Kroeker, Amy Leonard, Marc Lienhard, Terence McIntosh, Erik Midelfort, Christopher Ocker, Michael Printy, Anne J.Schutte, Julie Tanaka, William B.Taylor, Elaine Tennant, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Ellen Yutzy Glebe.
Christopher Ocker, Ph.D. (1991) in Church History, Princeton Theological Seminary, is professor of history at the San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. His most recent publications include Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation (Cambridge, 2002) and Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547 (Brill, 2006).
Michael Printy, Ph.D. (2002) in History, University of California, Berkeley, is visiting assistant professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.
Peter Starenko, Ph.D. (2003) in European History, University of California, Berkeley, is a research associate at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.
Peter G. Wallace, Ph.D. (1983) in History, University of Oregon, is professor of History at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. His publications include Communities and Conflict in Early Modern Colmar: 1575-1730 (Humanities/Brill 1995) and The Long European Reformation (Palgrave 2004).
"[D]ie Beitrage dieser Festschrift bieten [...] spannende Einblicke in unterschiedliche Facetten heutiger Reformationsforschung bzw. heutiger Auseinandersetzung mit den Folgen der Reformation im Zeitalter der Konfessionen." - Renate Dürr, in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 501-503
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Preface
Bibliography of the Works of Thomas A. Brady
1. Tempests and Stürme in Reformation Studies: Some Scholarly and Personal Observations, Kaspar von Greyerz
2. The Reformation in Post-War Historiography: An American Contribution, Peter Blickle