The Church and the Market: Vernacular Religious Works and the Early Printing Press in the Low Countries, 1477-1540

2013 ◽  
pp. 93-116
Author(s):  
Koen Goudriaan
Keyword(s):  
Printing Press ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
The Church

European Catholicism (1500–1700)

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-259
Author(s):  
David W. Kling
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Catholic Reformation ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Teresa Of Avila ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Church

The long Catholic Reformation, which lasted from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, is one of the most active, intense, and expansive in the history of Christian conversion. This chapter begins with an examination of the conversions of two profoundly influential Catholics from the Iberian Peninsula (Ignatius of Loyola and Teresa of Ávila) and then considers efforts by the religious orders to re-Catholicize Europe. With the Jesuits leading the way, the Church evangelized the masses, drawing them into a personal relationship with God by encouraging the very things Protestants condemned: cults of intercession, pilgrimages, concern with purgatory, feast days, adoration of Christ in the Eucharist, and devotion to the saints. The chapter then moves to a discussion of conversion in the context of religiously mixed communities (Catholics and Protestants) in the Low Countries and France and ends with a discussion of Pierre Bayle’s defense of free conscience as the basis of true conversion.

The Infanta and the English Benedictine Nuns: Mary Percy's Memories In 1634

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Arblaster
Keyword(s):  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Philip Ii ◽  
Southern Netherlands ◽  
Northern Policy ◽  
The Church

In 1598 Philip II, King of Spain since 1559 and ruler of many other dominions, granted the ‘Burgundian’ segment of his inheritance (the Low Countries and the County of Burgundy) to his daughter Isabella as a dowry, and gave her in marriage to her cousin Albert, Archduke of Austria. The couple governed that part of the territory effectively under their control — the northern provinces having formed the Dutch Republic — as ‘sovereign princes’, essentially enjoying domestic autonomy under the protection of the Spanish army. They were responsible for the ‘northern’ policy of the Spanish monarchy, including day-to-day relations with England and the protection of the British Catholics. As sovereign princes they rebuilt the Church in the Southern Netherlands, patronised the reformed religious orders, and did much to establish the particular South Netherlandish identity which was eventually to lead to an independent Belgian state. In 1621 Albert died, and his childless widow's dowry reverted to her nephew Philip IV. Isabella remained in Brussels as Governess-General, enjoying greater independence than the title might suggest, both from her long career as co-sovereign and from the trust and admiration of her nephew the king. She died in 1633, the governship passing to another of her nephews, the Cardinal-Infant Don Ferdinand (1635–1641).

The so-called ‘Bellarmine’ Mask on Imported Rhenish Stoneware

1951 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 173-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
North Germany ◽  
The Church

Just over a century ago Mr. William Chaffers read to the British Archaeological Association a paper in which he gave the name of Bellarmines to those mottled stoneware vessels, with bearded masks as their principal decoration, which were imported in large quantities from the Rhineland to be the regular tavern-crockery of Tudor and Stuart London. This paper, published by the Association in volume v of its Journal, appears to be the source of the popular belief, which almost everybody quotes and nobody checks, that the mask and jug were intended to satirize the features and rotundity of Cardinal Bellarmine, perhaps the greatest theologian of his time and certainly, to the hard-drinking Protestants of England, north Germany, and the Low Countries, the most redoubtable champion of the Church of Rome. Chaffers himself does not go so far as to claim detailed resemblance of face and figure, but says ‘if we can in any way rely upon the portraits of him thus handed down to posterity, he must indeed have been exceedingly hard featured’. On the other hand, he does specifically claim to be justified in ‘christening anew’ this type of vessel with the cardinal's name, and popular acceptance has done the rest.

The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary: Devotional Communication and Politics in the Burgundian-Habsburg Low Countries,c.1490–1520

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUSIE SPEAKMAN SUTCH ◽  
ANNE-LAURE VAN BRUAENE
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Territorial Unity

This article discusses the propagation of the devotion of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary in the Low Countries around 1500. The central argument is that the secular goal of the promoters of the devotion was to create a large spiritual and emotional community in support of the Burgundian-Habsburg dynasty and its ideology of peace and territorial unity. To this end a whole array of old and new media was exploited. The article analyses the dynamics of this devotional communication and gives special attention to the role of miracles, vernacular theatre and the printing press.

Music, ritual and patronage at the Church of Our Lady, Antwerp

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine K. Forney
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Lay Devotion ◽  
The Church

The development of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century sacred polyphony is linked closely not only to the Mass and divine services of the Roman Catholic Church, but equally to the rise of lay devotional congregations who sponsored their own services, often musically elaborate, at private chapels and altars. Within this popular phenomenon of lay devotion in the Low Countries, several northern confraternities can be cited for their very early regular use of polyphony. A polyphonic Salve service was established in 1362 by the Marian confraternity at St Goedele in Brussels, and Reinhard Strohm has shown that, by 1396, the Marian Guild of the Dry Tree (Ghilde vanden droghen Boome) in Bruges sponsored weekly masses sung in polyphony by its guild members. That polyphony was central to some fourteenth-century confraternity services is confirmed by the records of the Illustrious Confraternity of Our Lady in 's-Hertogenbosch, founded in 1318 in St John's Church.

Isaac Casaubon and Greek Scholarship in the Low Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-351
Author(s):  
Gilbert Tournoy
Keyword(s):  
Low Countries ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

This contribution focuses on the relationship between Isaac Casaubon and a few humanist scholars from the Low Countries, who were interested in the search for manuscripts and the edition of Greek authors, particularly the Fathers of the Church: Bonaventura Vulcanius, Andreas Schottus, Petrus Pantinus.

The Pre-Reformation Altarpiece of Long Melford Church

2002 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Kim W Woods
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
The Church

The remarkable late sixteenth-century account of Long Melford Church written by former churchwarden Roger Martyn includes a description of the carved wooden altarpiece placed at the high altar from 1481 (when, according to an inscription on the exterior of the church, the altarpiece was made) until 1547–8. The author suggests that this altarpiece is likely to have been Netherlandish rather than English and relates its purchase to the links between cloth-producing Long Melford and the Low Countries. The painted altarpiece shutters are known to have survived into Mary' College Chapel, Cambridge, are three shutters from a Brussels-carved altarpiece dating from c 1480 and owned by the college at least since 1717. It is proposed that these could be the Long Melford shutters, perhaps donated to the college after the English Civil War by Master Anthony Sparrow, who as archdeacon of Sudbury had oversight of Long Melford.

Preface: Transcultural Turn of Conceptual History Research

Cultura ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jiang SUN
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Undifferentiated State ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Church

Abstract If we do not shrink from making rough generalizations and adopt a broad, conventional approach, then what we call modernity refers to the process whereby a state of heterogeneity progresses toward homogeneity in time, space, human collectives, social order, and other areas. In his book The Cheese and the Worms, Carlo Ginzburg discusses a late-16th century incident of heterodoxy that cannot be classified into previously existing standard categories. As new knowledge was disseminated thanks to the invention of the Gutenberg printing press, old and new knowledge came into conflict in the mind of a heterodox figure by the name of Menocchio. He attacked the church, saying that it was more important to love one’s neighbor than to love God (Ginzburg, 1992: 38). Through these small, humble manifestations of change, Ginzburg was able to reveal the juncture when European modern knowledge first emerged from a muddled, undifferentiated state into one of clarity, whereby over the course of about a century of fermentation, its contours eventually became clearly evident around the year 1800. This process has been termed by the pioneer of conceptual history Otto Brunner as the “threshold era” (Schwellenzeit) (Blänkner, 2012: 107), and by Reinhart Koselleck as the beginning of the “saddle era” (Sattelzeit) (Koselleck and Richter, 2011: 9).

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