Review of Front Lines: Soldiers’ Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Review | Contributor(s): Hilaire Kallendorf

Review of North/South: The Great European Divide

Review | Contributor(s): David M. Posner

Review of “Mais devant tous est le Lyon marchant”: Construction littéraire d’un milieu editorial et livres de poésie française à Lyon (1536–1551)

Review | Contributor(s): Mark Crane

Review of Conduct Literature for and about Women in Italy 1470–1900: Prescribing and Describing Life

Review | Contributor(s): Benedetta Lamanna

Review of Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy: The Art and Culture of Conspicuous Consumption

Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Mara Desilva

Review of La Plume et le pinceau. Nicolas Denisot, poète et artiste de la Renaissance (1515–1559)

Review | Contributor(s): Brooke D. Di Lauro

Review of Orphan Girl: A Transaction, or an Account of the Entire Life of an Orphan Girl by Way of Plaintful Threnodies in the Year 1685: The Aesop Episode

Review | Contributor(s): Ursula Phillips

Review of Memoirs of the Count of Comminge and The Misfortunes of Love

Review | Contributor(s): Kendall Tarte

Review of Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity

Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Strtak

Review of Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea; or, A Narrative of Her Journey from London into Cornwall

Review | Contributor(s): Mary Morse

Review of The Roots of Reform; Word and Faith

Review | Contributor(s): David Boehmer

Review of Architectural Involutions: Writing, Staging, and Building Space, c. 1435–1650

Review | Contributor(s): Mark Albert Johnston

Piety and Conflict in the Early Reformation: Introduction

Article | Contributor(s): Andrew Gow, Robert J. Bast

The Extract of Various Prophecies: Apocalypticism and Mass Media in the Early Reformation

Article | Contributor(s): Jonathan Green

The compilation known as the Extract of Various Prophecies (Auszug etlicher Practica und Prophezeiungen) was the most popular prophetic pamphlet in Germany in the decade between 1516 and 1525. While the Extract was known to contain excerpts from the Prognosticatio of Johannes Lichtenberger and...

Why Was There Even a Reformation in Lindau? The Myth and Mystery of Lindau’s Conflict-Free Reformation

Article | Contributor(s): Johannes Wolfart

Histories of Lindau emphasize a remarkably conflict-free course of early reform in that particular locale. This view is established and maintained by multiple means, including hyper-credulity towards the peacefulness asserted by local authorities, anachronistic projections of the confessional...

Sex, Blasphemy, and the Block: The Trial and Execution of Ludwig Hätzer

Article | Contributor(s): Geoffrey Dipple

In early 1529, the Protestant authorities of Constance executed Ludwig Hätzer for disobedience and moral depravity. Although the court documents avoided any reference to his religious teachings, contemporaries speculated about the role that perceptions—that he was an Anabaptist who espoused...

Utz Richsner as Ideologue of the Schilling Uprising in Augsburg, 1524

Article | Contributor(s): Robert J. Bast

The 1524 uprising of evangelical artisans in Augsburg on behalf of the Franciscan preacher Johann Schilling counts as a turning point of the Reformation movement in that city. Relying on chronicles, government reports, and interrogation records, previous scholarship—none better than Jörg Rogge’s—...

Sometimes It’s the Place: The Anabaptist Kingdom Revisited

Article | Contributor(s): Henry Suderman

Interpretations of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster (23 February 1534 – 24 June 1535) and the actions of its primary protagonists have tended to be judgmental and dismissive, with little attention given to Münster Anabaptists’ self-descriptions. Studies tend to focus on the wildly imaginative...

After the Peasants’ War: Barbara (Schweikart) von Fuchstein Fights for Her Property

Article | Contributor(s): Christopher Ocker

Historians are only beginning to appreciate fully the political and social impact of the aftermath of the German Peasants’ War. The case of Barbara (Schweikart) von Fuchstein, widow of Sebastian von Fuchstein, a Kaufbeuren lawyer suspected of Anabaptism and exiled at the end of the war, sheds...

The Problem of Nationalism in the Early Reformation

Article | Contributor(s): Tom Scott

Historians frequently dismiss any use of the term nationalism in the pre-modern period as conceptually illegitimate. In the early Reformation in Germany, the welter of confusing and competing terms to describe Luther’s audience—“nation,” “tongue,” “fatherland,” patria—appears to confirm that...