EarlyModernEurope(Religion)
CTwomey‐PreliminaryCompsExamReadingListwithProf.SarahRoss
Reformations
Christopher S Celenza, The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin’s Legacy
(Baltimore, 2004).
Robert J Christman, Doctrinal Controversy and Lay Religiosity in Late Reformation Germany:
The Case of Mansfeld (Leiden, 2012).
Natalie Zemon Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays (Stanford, CA,
1975).
Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c.1400-c.1580 (New
Haven, 1992).
Eamon Duffy, “The English Reformation After Revisionism,” Renaissance Quarterly, 59.3
(2006), 720–31.
G. R Evans, The Roots of the Reformation: Tradition, Emergence and Rupture (Downers Grove,
IL, 2012).
Mary Laven, “Encountering the Counter-Reformation,” Renaissance Quarterly, Recent Trends
in the Study of Christianity, 59.3 (2006), 706–20.
Brian Levack et al., The West: Encounters & Transformations (2007).
Edward Muir, Ritual in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1997).
Graham Parry, The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour
(Woodbridge, 2006).
Eugene F Rice, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 (New York, 1970).
Robert W Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German
Reformation (Cambridge, 1981).
Ethan H Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge, 2003).
Ethan H. Shagan, “‘Popularity’ and the 1549 Rebellions Revisited,” The English Historical
Review, 115.460 (2000), 121–33.
EarlyModernGender
Sylvia Monica Brown, Women, Gender, and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe (Leiden,
2007).
Caroline Walker Bynum, Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe
(2011).
Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to
Medieval Women (Berkeley, 1987).
Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human
Body in Medieval Religion (New York, 1991).
Caroline Walker Bynum, Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern
Germany and Beyond (Philadelphia, 2007).
Natalie Zemon Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays (Stanford, CA,
1975).
Natalie Zemon Davis, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives (Cambridge,
1995).
Margaret L King, Women of the Renaissance (Chicago, 1991).
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy (Chicago, 1985).
Mary Laven, Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent
(New York, 2003).
K. J. P Lowe, Nuns’ Chronicles and Convent Culture: Women and History Writing in
Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy (Cambridge, 2003).
Caroline Murphy, Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-Century Bologna
(New Haven, 2003).
Samantha Riches and Sarah Salih, eds., Gender and Holiness: Men, Women, and Saints in Late
Medieval Europe (London, 2002).
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and
England (Cambridge, 2009).
Anne Jacobson Schutte, Thomas Kuehn, and Silvana Seidel Menchi, eds., Time, Space, and
Women’s Lives in Early Modern Europe (Kirksville, MO, 2001).
Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (New York, 1988).
NewWorldConversion
William A Christian, Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Princeton, 1981).
Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (New
York, 2003).
Inga Clendinnen, “Ways to the Sacred: Reconstructing ‘Religion’ in Sixteenth-Century Mexico,”
The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society: Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture
(Cambridge, 2010), 116–55.
Natalie Zemon Davis, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives (Cambridge,
1995).
Serge Gruzinski, The Conquest of Mexico: The Incorporation of Indian Societies into the
Western World, 16th-18th Centuries (Cambridge, UK, 1993).
Jaime Lara, City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New
Spain (Notre Dame, IN, 2004).
Jaime Lara, Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico (Notre Dame, IN,
2008).
Anthony Pagden, European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism
(New Haven, 1993).
Anthony Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of
Comparative Ethnology (Cambridge, 1987).
Patricia Seed, “‘Are These Not Also Men?’: The Indians’ Humanity and Capacity for Spanish
Civilisation,” Journal of Latin American Studies, 25.3 (1993), 629–52.
MaterialCultureandSacredSpace
Lynda L. Coon, Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West
(Philadelphia, 2011).
Will Coster and Andrew Spicer, eds., Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2005).
Jeremy Dimmick, James Simpson, and Nicolette Zeeman, eds., Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm
in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image (Oxford, 2002).
David R. M Gaimster and Roberta Gilchrist, eds., The Archaeology of Reformation, 1480-1580,
Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology (Leeds, 2003).
Roberta Gilchrist, Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women (London;
New York, 1994).
Sarah Hamilton and Andrew Spicer, eds., Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and
Early Modern Europe (Aldershot, 2005).
Barbara Hanawalt and Michal Kobialka, eds., Medieval Practices of Space (Minneapolis, 2000).
Joseph Leo Koerner, The Reformation of the Image (Chicago, 2004).
Jaime Lara, City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New
Spain (Notre Dame, IN, 2004).
Jaime Lara, Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico (Notre Dame, IN,
2008).
Graham Parry, The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour
(Woodbridge, 2006).
Graham Parry, “Sacred Space in Laudian England,” in Joseph Sterrett and Peter Wynn Thomas,
eds., Sacred Text, Sacred Space: Architectural, Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England
and Wales (Leiden, 2011), 123–40.
Anne Jacobson Schutte, Thomas Kuehn, and Silvana Seidel Menchi, eds., Time, Space, and
Women’s Lives in Early Modern Europe (Kirksville, MO, 2001).