Download e-book for kindle: Pieties in Transition: Religious Practices and Experiences, by Elisabeth Salter,Robert Lutton

this crucial and cutting edge assortment explores the altering piety of townspeople and villagers earlier than, in the course of and after the Reformation. It brings jointly best and new students from England and the Netherlands to give new study on a topic of value to historians of society and faith in past due medieval and early smooth Europe. members study the various proof for transitions in piety and the strategies of those adjustments. the quantity includes a diversity of ways together with social, cultural and non secular historical past, literary and manuscript reviews, social anthropology and archaeology. this can be, for this reason, an interdisciplinary quantity that constitutes a cultural heritage of adjusting pieties within the interval c. 1400-1640. members concentrate on a couple of particular issues utilizing a number sorts of facts and theoretical methods. a few chapters make exact reconstructions of particular groups, teams and participants; a few provide perceptive and worthy analyses of theoretical and comparative ways to transition and to piety; and others heavily research cultural practices, rules and tastes. via this variety of designated paintings, which brings to gentle formerly unknown assets in addition to new methods to extra ordinary resources, individuals handle a couple of questions bobbing up from contemporary released paintings on past due medieval and early glossy piety and reformation. separately and jointly, the chapters during this quantity provide an enormous contribution to the sphere of overdue medieval and early sleek piety. They spotlight, for the 1st time, the centrality of strategies of transition within the adventure and perform of faith. delivering a refreshingly new method of the topic, this quantity increases well timed theoretical and methodological questions that may be of curiosity to a extensive audience.