Multidisciplinary studies by leading scholars reflect on the writings of early modern French nuns. This text includes bibliographies, a detailed index, and checklist of ...

What is meant by knowing God? By sounding the work of John Calvin and Karl Barth as mirrors of reflection and experience, justice is done to the tension between the premodern ...

One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and ...

Fear of fire, flood, plague, invasion by the infidel, purgatory, death, witchcraft - these are just some of the fears that plagued the early modern world which are dealt with ...

This book contributes to the ongoing revision of early modern British history by examining the apocalyptic tradition through the life and writings of Joseph Mede (1586-1638 ...

Etude sur le contrôle de l'imprimerie à Genève, de la censure des lecteurs et de la politique éditoriale des autorités de la ville, faisant surgir les rapports de force et les ...

The Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century brought a radical shift from a profoundly sensual and ceremonial experience of religion to the dominance of the word through ...