Religion and superstition in Reformation Europe
By: edited by Helen Parish and William G. Naphy.
Contributors: Parish, Helen L.; Naphy, William G., 1960-
Series: Studies in early modern European history
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Reformation; Superstition -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines; Superstition -- Europe -- History; Europe -- Religious life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: Images of the Virgin Mary and Marian devotion in Protestant Nuremberg / Bridget Heal; title: Not like us: Catholic identity as a defence against Protestantism in Rottweil, 1560-1618 / Jason K. Nye; title: Traditional practices: Catholic missionaries and Protestant religious practice in Transylvania / Maria Cračiun; title: The Jesuit legend: superstition and myth-making / Eric Nelson; title: 'The spirit of prophecy has not wholly left the world': the stylisation of Archbishop James Ussher as a prophet / Ute Lotz-Heumann; title: Serving two masters: John Knox, Scripture and prophecy / Dale Johnson; title: A Protestant or Catholic superstition?: astrology and eschatology during the French wars of religion / Luc Racaut; title: Rational superstition: the writings of Protestant demonologists / P. G. Maxwell-Stuart; title: Deceptive appearances: ghosts and reformers in Elizabethan and Jacobean England / Peter Marshall.