Title & Author:

Lutheran churches in early modern Europe / [edited by] Andrew Spicer.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.

Description:

xxi, 512 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Lutheran churches and confessional identity / Andrew Spicer -- Early modern Lutheran churches : redefining the boundaries of the holy and the profane / Vera Isaiasz -- Lutheran churches and confessional competition in Augsburg / Emily Fisher Gray -- Epitaphs in dialogue with sacred space : post-Reformation furnishings in the parish churches of St Nikolai and St Marien in Berlin / Maria Deiters -- Framing the sacred : Lutheran church furnishings in the Holy Roman Empire / Margit Thøfner -- Marian imagery and its function in the Lutheran churches of early modern Transylvania / Maria Crăciun -- 'On Sundays for the laity ... we allow mass vestments, altars and candles to remain' : the role of pre-Reformation ecclesiastical vestments in the formation of confessional, corporate, and 'national' identities / Evelin Wetter -- The material presence of music in church : the Hanseatic city of Lübeck / Matthias Range -- Lutheran theology and artistic media : responses to the theological discourse on the visual arts / Sven Rune Havsteen -- Re-forming the confessional space : early Lutheran churches in Denmark, c.1536-1660 / Birgitte Bøggild Johannsen and Hugo Johannsen -- State church and church state : churches and their interiors in post-Reformation Norway, 1537-1705 / Øystein Ekroll -- Church furnishings and rituals in a Swedish provincial cathedral from 1527 to c.1660 / Riitta Laitinen -- 'Das "Geistliche Gebäwde" der Kirche' : the Lutheran church in early modern Estonia as a meeting place of theological, social and artistic ideas / Krista Kodres -- Lutherans in Cracow : contesting the sacred topography / Agnieszka Madej-Anderson -- Lutheran churches in Poland / Jan Harasimowicz -- 'Hic coeli porta est, hic domus ecce dei' : Lutheran churches in the Dutch world, c.1566-1719 / Andrew Spicer -- Afterword / Susan C. Karant-Nunn.

Summary:

This collection of essays provides a coherent and interdisciplinary investigation of the impact that the Lutheran Reformation had on the appearance, architecture and arrangement of early modern churches.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780754665830 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0754665836 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Lutheran church buildings Europe.
Church architecture Europe.
Architecture and society Europe History.
Reformation.
Églises luthériennes Europe.
Architecture chrétienne Europe.
Architecture et société Europe Histoire.
Réforme (Christianisme)
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture and society
Church architecture
Lutheran church buildings
Kyrkoarkitektur.
Kyrkor.
Kyrkoinventarier.
Arkitektur och samhälle.
Reformationen.
Lutherska kyrkan.
Europa.
Europe

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Spicer, Andrew.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278032
Call No.: BIB 213395
Status: Available