St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute Theses
The foundation of the Reformation Studies Institute in 1993 reflects the university's continuing commitment to enhancing St Andrews' established reputation in this field of scholarship. In the centuries since the Reformation St Andrews has cultivated a tradition of excellence in Reformation studies. Its library boasts a rich collection which has been carefully developed over the years and which dates back to contemporary works from the reformers' own libraries. The Institute provides a focus for the university's advanced work in this area.
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Recent Submissions
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Communicating Lutheranism : church building in an age of orthodoxy, 1555-1618
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisMartin Luther’s preaching and books transformed the small town of Wittenberg into the home of the Protestant Reformation. Yet, Wittenberg’s dependence on Luther has prompted scholarship to question the town’s world-historical ... -
Women as book producers : the case of Nuremberg
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis explores the multifaceted roles in which women participated in the early modern book trade. Focusing on Nuremberg, home to many successful bookwomen, it examines how they crafted work identities and exercised ... -
Visual commonplacing : the transmission and reception of printed devotional images in Reformed England
(University of St Andrews, 2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis introduces the framework of ‘visual commonplacing’ as a way of analysing the repeating illustrations printed in early modern English books and ephemera. This research focuses on religious relief-cut images ... -
Latin books published in Paris, 1501-1540
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06) - ThesisThis is a study of the Parisian Latin book industry in the first four decades of the sixteenth century. It challenges the assumption that the Reformation brought about a profound change in the European print world. Luther’s ... -
The cult of Corpus Christi in early modern Bavaria : pilgrimages, processions, and confraternities between 1550 and 1750
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - ThesisTransubstantiation and the cult of Corpus Christi became crucial Counter-Reformation symbols which were assigned an even more significant role during the process of Catholic renewal from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth ...
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