This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-fi

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther’s revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excom

This work examines how and under what circumstances past commemorations have occurred. In Germany these stretch back to the Reformationsjubiläum of 1617. Many

In this compilation of essays, experts in the field provide an in-depth look at the long-lasting impact of the Protestant Reformation. Readers will gain new ins