Preface; The early modern parish church: an introduction, Andrew Spicer; Patrician and episcopal rivalry for the Milanese parish church: San Nazaro in Brolo during French and Spanish rule, Philippa Woodcock; Exploring the features and challenges of the urban parish church in the southern Low Countries: the case of 16th-century Ghent, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene; The Counter Reformation and the parish church in western Brittany (France) 1500-1700, Elizabeth Tingle; The body of the faithful: Joseph Furttenbach’s 1649 Lutheran Church plans, Emily Fisher Gray; Staging the Eucharist, adiaphora, and shaping Lutheran identities in the Transylvanian parish church, Evelin Wetter; Parish churches in Geneva and the Swiss Romande, Andrew Spicer; ‘Which of them do belong to the parish or not’: the changing rural parish in the Dutch Republic after the Reformation, Arjan Nobel; Unitarian parish churches in early modern Transylvania, Maria Craciun; Heaven on earth: churches in early modern Hispanic America, Andrew Redden; Franciscans and the parish in early modern Brazil, Ivan Cavalcanti Filho; Parish churches, colonization and conversion in Portuguese Goa, Mallica Kumbera Landrus; Dutch churches in Asia, Andrew Spicer; ‘To build up the walls of Jerusalem’: Anglican churches in 17th-century Virginia, Carl Lounsbury; Parish churches in the early modern world: an afterword, Beat Kümi; Index
Biography
Andrew Spicer is Professor of Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University.
