1st Edition
Religion and Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds Identities, Communities and Authorities
Introduction
Natasha Hodgson and Amy Fuller
Part 1: Propaganda, Polemic and Religious Identities
1. Religion and Conflict, Conflict and Religion: Long-Distance Pilgrimage and the (Re)building of Catholic Identity in an Era of Religious War in France 1550-1650
Elizabeth Tingle
2. Identity and Empire: Anti-Spanish sentiment in news and travel pamphlets printed in London in the 1580s
Sara Bradley
3. The visualisation of God's flesh; defending the indefensible in Byzantine art c.690-890
Georgia Michael
Part 2: Religious Conflict in local contexts
4. The Curious Case of the Cartmel Cross-dresser. Recusants, Revelry and Resistance in Lancashire, 1604
Jonathan Healey
5. ‘No Small Inconvenience’: Violence at Church in Scotland 1550-1650
Alfred Johnson
6. Outrages in the church: religious violence in English and Welsh parishes after the Civil Wars
Fiona McCall
Part 3: Religion, Gender and Authority
7. Mistress and Minister: Margaret Fell, her estate, and conflict with the "powers that be"
Kristianna Polder
8. Consent, Clandestinity and Conflict. Old stories, new understandings – matrimonial litigation in the early Sixteenth-Century diocese of Lincoln
Martin Roberts
9. Papa don’t Preach: Abortion and ‘womanly sin’ in the morality plays of early modern Mexico
Amy Fuller
Part 4: Religion and Conflict in the City
10. "Differences and Discordes": Conflict between Civic and Ecclesiastical Authorities in Late Medieval Salisbury, 1302-1539
Samuel Lane
11. A Very Roman Affair: Conflict and disorder in the Eternal city 1433-1533
Katharine Fellows
12. Loyalty to the Church, Loyalty to the Duke: Conflicts of Power in Late Medieval Ferrara
Beatrice Saletti
Part 5: Legitimising Religious Warfare
13. Knights of Malta and the Spirituality of Warfare 1530-1798
Matthias Ebejer
14. British Dragonnades? The Army and Religious Persecution in Restoration Britain, 1660–88
Ping Liao
15. ‘A New Approach to Just and Holy Warfare: The Complicated Case of Puritan Violence’
Matthew Rowley
Conclusion
Martyn Bennett
Biography
Natasha Hodgson is Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Nottingham Trent University. She wrote Women, Crusading and the Holy Land and co-edited Crusading and Masculinities. She is series editor for Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History and Advances in Crusader Studies and co-edits Nottingham Medieval Studies.
Amy Fuller is Lecturer in the History of the Americas, 1400-1700 at Nottingham Trent University, specialising in Early Modern Spain and Mexico. She is the author of Between Two Worlds: The autos sacramentales of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
John McCallum is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Nottingham Trent University He is the author of Poor Relief and the Church in Scotland, 1560-1650 and Reforming the Scottish Parish (2010) and edited the volume Scotland's Long Reformation (2016).
Nicholas Morton is Senior Lecturer in History at Nottingham Trent University. His most recent publications include: The Field of Blood and Encountering Islam on the First Crusade. He is series editor for Rulers of the Latin East, The Military Religious Orders, and Global Histories before Globalisation.
