Re-forming Texts, Music, and Church Art in the Early Modern North / / Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen, Linda Kaljundi.

Our historical understanding of the Reformation in northern Europe has tended to privilege the idea of disruption and innovation over continuity-yet even the most powerful reformation movements drew on and exchanged ideas with earlier cultural and religious practices. This volume attempts to right t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 41 halftones, 13 line drawings
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Table of Contents --
A Note on Terms and Names --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction /
Part I. Contextualizations and Thematizations --
1. Popular Belief and the Disruption of Religious Practices in Reformation Sweden /
2. Trade and the Known World /
3. Diglossia, Authority and Tradition /
Part II. Music and Religious Performances --
4. Changes in the Poetics of Song during the Finnish Reformation /
5. Vernacular Gregorian Chant and Lutheran Hymn-singing in Reformation-era Finland /
6. Pious Hymns and Devil's Music /
7. The Emergence of Hymns at the Crossroads of Folk and Christian Culture /
Part III. Church Art and Architecture --
8. Reform and Pragmatism /
9. Early Lutheran Networks and Changes in the Furnishings of the Finnish Lutheran Parish Church /
10. Continuity and Change /
Part IV. The 'Other' and the Afterlife --
11. Pagans into Peasants /
12. Est vera India septemtrio /
13. Transformations of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Finnish Vernacular Poetry and Rituals /
14. Agricola's List (1551) and the Formation of the Estonian Pantheon /
Contributors --
Index
Summary:Our historical understanding of the Reformation in northern Europe has tended to privilege the idea of disruption and innovation over continuity-yet even the most powerful reformation movements drew on and exchanged ideas with earlier cultural and religious practices. This volume attempts to right the balance, bringing together a roster of experts to trace the continuities between the medieval and early modern period in the Nordic realm, while enabling us to see the Reformation and its changes in a new light.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9789048524938
9783110662931
9783110667318
9783110606447
DOI:10.1515/9789048524938?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen, Linda Kaljundi.