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Re-forming texts, music, and church art in the Early Modern North

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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.

Title Re-forming texts, music, and church art in the Early Modern North / edited by Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen and Linda Kaljundi. [electronic resource]
Publisher Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
Creation Date 2016
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).
Issued also in print.
In English.
Content Cover
Table of Contents
A Note on Terms and Names
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen and Linda Kaljundi
Part I -- Contextualizations and Thematizations
1. Popular Belief and the Disruption of Religious Practices in Reformation Sweden / Martin Berntson
2. Trade and the Known World: Finnish Priests' and Laymen's Networks in the Late Medieval Baltic Sea Region / Ilkka Leskelä
3. Diglossia, Authority and Tradition: The Influence of Writing on Learned and Vernacular Languages / Marco Mostert
Part II -- Music and Religious Performances.
Figure 8.4 -- The Seven Sacraments. Altarpiece painted by Rogier van der Weyden, 1440-1445. Detail of the central panel, showing the Eucharist.
Figure 5.2 -- The end of the antiphon O Kunnian Kuningas (O Rex gloriose) in the Codex WesthFigure 5.3 -- The introit Nos autem in the Codex Westh
Figure 5.4 -- The trope Benedicamus parvulo nato in a manuscript from Hämene\yrö
Figure 5.5 -- The hymn O fadher wår wij bidhie tigh in the Loimijoki manuscript (c. 1600)
Figure 8.1 -- Gustav Vasa as the Bysta Master saw him in about 1550
Figure 8.2 -- Gustav Vasa's Bible, 1541
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Figure 8.3 -- St. Erik. Uppsala Cathedral Chapter's counter-seal from 1275, believed to represent his statue.
13. Transformations of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Finnish Vernacular Poetry and Rituals / Irma-Riitta Järvinen14. Agricola's List (1551) and the Formation of the Estonian Pantheon / Aivar Põldvee
Index
List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Musical Examples
Maps
Map 1 -- Baltic Sea region
Map 2 -- Baltic Sea region, 1530
Map 3 -- Baltic Sea region, 1580
Map 4 -- Baltic Sea region, 1630
Map 5 -- The Swedish provinces
Figures
Figure 5.1 -- A fragment from Graduale F.m. II 44 in the National Library of Finland, with Finnish translation added for the Gloria.
8. Reform and Pragmatism: On Church Art and Architecture during the Swedish Reformation Era / Anna Nilsén9. Early Lutheran Networks and Changes in the Furnishings of the Finnish Lutheran Parish Church / Hanna Pirinen
10. Continuity and Change: Reorganizing Sacred Space in Post-Reformation Tallinn / Merike Kurisoo
Part IV -- The 'Other' and the Afterlife
11. Pagans into Peasants: Ethnic and Social Boundaries in Early Modern Livonia / Linda Kaljundi
12. Est vera India septemtrio: Re-imagining the Baltic in the Age of Discovery / Stefan Donecker.
4. Changes in the Poetics of Song during the Finnish Reformation / Kati Kallio5. Vernacular Gregorian Chant and Lutheran Hymn-singing in Reformation-era Finland / Jorma Hannikainen and Erkki Tuppurainen
6. Pious Hymns and Devil's Music: Michael Agricola (c. 1507-1557) and Jacobus Finno (c. 1540-1588) on Church Song and Folk Beliefs / Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen
7. The Emergence of Hymns at the Crossroads of Folk and Christian Culture: An Episode in Early Modern Latvian Cultural History / Māra Grudule
Part III -- Church Art and Architecture.
Series Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies
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Extent 1 online resource (482 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language English
National Library system number 997010701357005171
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