Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

We still lack a systematic or complete theory of tradition. By referring to the works of many major figures of the last century – Arendt, Boyer, Eisenstadt, Eliot, Gadamer, Goody, Hobsbawm, Kermode, Leavis, MacIntyre, Oakeshott, Pieper, Pocock, Popper, Prickett, Shils and others – I show that a theory of tradition mus…

• JOHN JAMES ALEXANDER

This book presents a critical edition of a collection of liturgical manuscripts that the Augustinian friar Onofrio Panvinio (1530–1568) assembled in the 1560s for the Cardinal Alessandro Farnese as well as for Hans Jakob Fugger in Augsburg. Onofrio Panvinio is primarily known for his antiquarian studies about ancient…

This paper traces the history of the Benedictine community of St Mary’s Cathedral Priory, Worcester, from 1534 until its surrender in 1540, with the aim of determining the number and identity of the monks of Worcester at the time of the dissolution. No deed of surrender survives for the priory that would record the na…

• DAVID EWAN THORNTON

This article examines the apparent practice among monks and regular canons in England before the Dissolution of dropping their family surnames on admission/profession, and adopting instead a new ‘monastic byname’, derived from a place name (toponym) or, by the late fifteenth century onwards, from a saint’s name (hagio…

• DAVID EWAN THORNTON

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• ALEXANDER VAN ECK

Musa Yasası (Νόμος Μωυσῆ) meselesi, İsa’nın ölümünden bir süre sonra, onun cemaatinde başlıca anlaşmazlık konusu ve hatta bölünme sebebi olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Bu mesele, sonradan İsrail’in Tanrı’sına ve İsa’ya iman eden öteki uluslardan (gentiles) insanların Musa Yasası’nın kurallarına da riayet edip etmeyecek…

• ZAFER DUYGU

This article evaluates ordination lists preserved in bishops’ registers from late medieval England as evidence for the monastic orders, with special reference to religious houses in the diocese of Worcester, from 1300 to 1540. By comparing almost 7,000 ordination records collected from registers from Worcester and nei…

• DAVID EWAN THORNTON

The Reformation in European history was an attempt to remove ecclesiastical authority from political (or secular) authority and culture – a process called secularisation. During the eighteenth and especially nineteenth centuries, however, secularisation gained a different meaning, which is, briefly stated, evolving fr…

• ÜNSAL ÇİMEN

Abstract During the sixteenth century Genoa became a significant ally of the Habsburg Empire. Shared political, commercial, financial, and strategic factors tied the Genoese patricians firmly to Spain. However, their alliance was by no means permanent. The relations between the Genoese and the Spanish crown were not w…

• FATMA ÖZDEN MERCAN

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This study moves an idea that support the ideology of modernization and the efforts of the new nation, developed in close contact with the official ideology, spread a wide audience many novels were written and in order to explain the new nation of literature in the early years of the Republic. In this context, Resat N…

A study of the Hutchinsonian interests of John Wesley shows that the founder of Methodism over a long period had a recurrent engagement with this predominantly High-Church Anglican combination of Physics and Theology. The argument of this paper is that Wesley had several reasons to take an interest in Hutchinsonianism…