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  • Herrnhut

    The Formation of a Moravian Community, 1722–1732

    by Paul Peucker ...
    Series series Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies
    In June 1722, three families from Moravia settled on the estate of Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf in Berthelsdorf, Saxony. Known as the community of Herrnhut, their settlement quickly grew to become the epicenter of a transatlantic religious movement, one that would attract thousands of Europeans, American Indians, and enslaved Africans: the Moravian Church.Written by one of the leading ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • A Time of Sifting

    Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century

    by Paul Peucker ...
    Series series Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies
    At the end of the 1740s, the Moravians, a young and rapidly expanding radical-Pietist movement, experienced a crisis soon labeled the Sifting Time. As Moravian leaders attempted to lead the church away from the abuses of the crisis, they also tried to erase the memory of this controversial and embarrassing period. Archival records were systematically destroyed, and official histories of the church ... Read more

    Was $83.99 CAD Now $27.99 CAD

  • Masculinity, Senses, Spirit

    by Claudia Bruns, Philippe C. Dubois, Robin Jarrell, Heikki Lempa, Robert D. Tobin, Randolph Trumbach, Craig D. Atwood, Paul Peucker ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the realms of the spirit and the senses in the Atlantic world from the eighteenthcentury to the present. Ranging in scope from the bridal mysticism of eighteenthcentury German ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion

    by Jonathan Strom ...
    Series series Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies
    August Hermann Francke described his conversion to Pietism in gripping terms that included intense spiritual struggle, weeping, falling to his knees, and a decisive moment in which his doubt suddenly disappeared and he was “overwhelmed as with a stream of joy.” His account came to exemplify Pietist conversion in the historical imagination around Pietism and religious awakening. Jonathan Strom’s ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to German Pietism

    Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe

    by Douglas H. Shantz ...
    Series series Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
    An up-to-date portrait of a defining moment in the Christian story—its beginnings, worldview, and cultural significance.Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award of the Young Center for Anabaptists and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown CollegeAn Introduction to German Pietism provides a scholarly investigation of a movement that changed the history of Protestantism. The Pietists can be credited with ... Read more

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  • Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book

    Gender and the Making of Textual Authority

    by Sara S. Poor ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • In Search of the Hebrew People

    Bible and Nation in the German Enlightenment

    by Ofri Ilany ...
    A book that "could serve as an effective introduction to German history, biblical studies and modern nationalism, among other fields" ( German History).As German scholars, poets, and theologians searched for the origins of the ancient Israelites, Ofri Ilany believes, they created a model for nationalism that drew legitimacy from the biblical idea of the Chosen People. In this broad exploration of ... Read more

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  • In Search of the Hebrew People

    Bible and Nation in the German Enlightenment

    by Ofri Ilany ...
    Series series German Jewish Cultures
    As German scholars, poets, and theologians searched for the origins of the ancient Israelites, Ofri Ilany believes they created a model for nationalism that drew legitimacy from the biblical idea of the Chosen People. In this broad exploration of eighteenth-century Hebraism, Ilany tells the story of the surprising role that this model played in discussions of ethnicity, literature, culture, and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry

    Secular and Religious Songs

    Although there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Albrecht Classen's careful investigation of archival material, however, proves this to be a misconception, and in this volume he presents a selection of secular love songs and religious hymns composed by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German women poets, here ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature

    by Karina Marie Ash ...
    Drastic changes in lay religiosity during the High Middle Ages spurred anxiety about women forsaking their secular roles as wives and mothers for religious ones as nuns and beguines. This anxiety and the subsequent need to model an ideal of feminine behavior for the laity is particularly expressed in the German versions of Latin and French narratives. Using thirteenth-century penitentials, ... Read more

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  • Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany

    Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to his Time

    by Gerhild Scholz Williams ...
    Series series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    Gerhild Scholz Williams's Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to His Time, reviews key discourses in eight of Praetorius's works. She introduces the modern reader to the kinds of subjects, the intellectual and spiritual approaches to them, and the genres that this educated and productive German scholar and polymath presented to his audience in the seventeenth ... Read more

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  • Martin Luther

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door of a small university town in 1517, he set off a process that changed the Western world for ever.Within a few years Luther’s ideas had spread l... ... Read more

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