Archeologies of Confession

Carina L. Johnson is Professor of History at Pitzer College and serves as extended faculty at Claremont Graduate University. She specializes in the cultural history of the sixteenth-century Habsburg Empire, particularly in relation to the extra-European world. Her publications include Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans (2011).

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Introduction: Reformations Lost and Found

Carina L. Johnson



PART I: SILENCING PLURALITY



Chapter 1. Misremembering Hybridity: The Myth of Goldenstedt

David M. Luebke



Chapter 2. A Luther for Everyone: Irenicism and Orthodoxy at the German Reformation Anniversaries of 1817

Stan Landry



Chapter 3. Challenging Plurality: Wilhelm Horning and the Histories of Alsatian Lutheranism

Anthony J. Steinhoff



Chapter 4. Confessional Histories of Women and the Reformation from the Eightteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Merry Wiesner-Hanks



Chapter 5. Catholics as Foreign Bodies: The County of Mark as a Protestant Territory in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prussian Historiography

Ralf-Peter Fuchs



PART II: RECOVERING PLURALITY



Chapter 6. A Catholic Genealogy of Protestant Reason

Richard Schaefer



Chapter 7. Fighting or Fostering Plurality? Ernst Salomon Cyprian as a Historian of Lutheranism in the Early Eighteenth Century

Alexander Schunka



Chapter 8. Heresy and the Protestant Enlightenment: Johann Lorenz von Mosheim’s History of Michael Servetus

Michael Printy



Chapter 9. The Great Fire of 1711: Reconceptualizing the Jewish Ghetto and Jewish-Christian Relations in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main

Dean Phillip Bell



PART III: EXCAVATING HISTORIES OF RELIGION



Chapter 10. The Early Roots of Confessional Memory. Martin Luther Burns the Papal Bull on 10 December 1520

Natalie Krentz



Chapter 11. Early Modern German Historians Confront the Reformation’s First Executions

Robert Christman



Chapter 12. Prison Tales: The Miraculous Escape of Stephen Agricola and the Creation of Lutheran Heroes during the Sixteenth Century

Marjorie E. Plummer



Chapter 13. Invented Memories: The ‘Convent of Wesel’ and the Origins of German and Dutch Calvinism

Jesse Spohnholz



PART IV: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING



Chapter 14. ‘Our Misfortune’: National Unity versus Religious Plurality in the Making of Modern Germany

Thomas A. Brady, Jr.



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