Anthropological reformations : anthropology in the era of reformation / Anne Eusterschulte, Hannah Wälzholz (ed.).

English with 3 contributions in German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Dimensions of anthropological reformations: keynote-lectures. Weakness of will: reformation anthropology between Aristotle and the stoa / Riso Saarinen -- Loud voices: emotions in the Reformation / Johan Verberckmoes -- 'Theologiae proprium subiectum est homo...' (Luther): shifts in the structure of theological systems in the wake of reformation / Notger Slenczka -- The human being according to Luther / Anna Vind -- Heart and voice: a musical anthropology in the age of reformation / Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- Body imagery and knowledge in Historica von D. Johann Fausten / Jutta Eming -- German medicine and Italian humanism in the times of reformation / Klaus Bergdolt -- Pictorial concepts of law and grace: relations between the Lutheran Reformation and the anthropology of the image / Elke Anna Werner -- II. Reformations of body and soul. Body and resurrection in Calvin's commentaries / Kyle J. Dieleman -- Human nature in Calvin's commentary on Seneca / Barbara Pitkin -- Female as the other in Martin Luther's anthropology in the early 1520s / Sini Mikkola -- 'Embodying' the Catholic reform: Mathias Bossemius and the defence of clerical celibacy in his De clericorum cum foeminis cohabitatione (1586) / Tom Bervoets -- Mystical anthropology in a sixteenth-century textual witness of the Catholic Reformation / Renske van Nie -- III. Images of Reformation and religious imaginations. An embodied theology: body, images and the imagination of God by Luther / Marion Deschamp -- Soli Deo honor et gloria: the concepts of honour and glory in the theology of the young Martin Luther / Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa -- Light as a metaphor in Protestant prints / Maria Lucia Weigel -- "Caron mit den abgeschidnen geisten": Antike Mythologie und christliche Imagination bei Hans Sachs / Frank Jasper Noll -- IV. Subjectivity, freedom of will and faith: ethical questions. Subjectivity and self-understanding: some considerations concerning Luther and Caravaggio / Svein Aage Christoffersen -- Dialectics as catalyst: the role of Aristotelian logic in the development of Melanchthon's doctrine of the will / Gregory B. Graybill -- Concepts of illness and health in the Zedekunst dat is Wellevenskunste (Ethics, or the art of living well, 1586) by Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (1522-1590) / Bettina Noak -- From Vanden twaelf dogheden to Tractat vonn Tůgenten: the rewriting of a medieval spiritual text in the Counter-Reformation / Ine Kiekens -- V. Reformation of church and religious practices. Man, freedom, and the church: Luther, Melanchthon, and Calvin on how to serve God freely, within or outside the power of the church / Herman A. Speelman -- Protestant church cantata: poetical and musical challenges around 1700 / Konrad Küster -- Churches for people: Protestant search for the new liturgical space in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century / Anna Michalska -- The sixteenth-century pictorial epitaph in Central Europe: between 'reform' and 'Reformation' / Joanna Kaźmierczak -- Why did England change its mind?: perceptions regarding human remains before, during, and after the Reformation / Jennifer Crangle -- Through the mala notte: the anthropology of assisting those condemned to die in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries / Gioia Filocamo --

VI. Political theology and anthropological reforms of pedagogy. Calvin as two kingdoms theologian: in theology, in church, and in state / Matthew J. Tuininga -- Peter Ramus, William Ames and the New England way: investigations into Theologia Timocratica / Niranjan Goswami -- 'Calvinian anthropology' and the early modern Hungarian devotion: the case of István Nagy Szoʺnyi, the first Hungarian martyrologist / Zsombor Tóth -- Halle Pietism: acrobats buying time / Kristian Mejrup -- VII. Exemplary studies: the self-understanding of reformation. You can have faith but you cannot assemble: the problem of conscience under the 17th-century Dutch Reformed regime: on Simon Oomius's Theologico-politica dissertatio (1662) / BonSeung Koo -- Heinrich Alting (1583-1644): erste Einblicke in eine Biografie (zugleich ein Beitrag zur Netzwerktätigkeit der Reformierten im ausgehenden 16. Jahrhundert) / Thomas Klöckner -- VIII. Reforms in the art of writing: literary approaches. Dem Selbst auf der Spur: Heterologes Schreiben und Sebstthematisierung in Ulrich von Huttens Traktat De guaiaci medicina et morbo gallico / Antje Wittstock -- The anthropological concept in Jakob Ruf's political plays Etter Heini and Wilhelm Tell in the light of the prevalent opinions of the Swiss Reformation / Daniela Kohler -- 'This hidden knowledge have I learned of thee': Anne Vaughan Lock and the 'Invisible church' / Sukanya Dasgupta -- Islam in Renaissance English literature: between intolerance and exoticism / Hicham Merzouki -- IX. Ethnology in the light of reformation. New worlds, new images: picturing the resurrection of the body in sixteenth-century Germany / Erin Lambert -- The Navigations of Nicolas de Nicolay and the economics of ethnology in the early modern Mediterranean basin / Michael Harrigan.