Northern European Reformations: Transnational Perspectives

422 Pages·2020·6.178 MB·English

by  James E. Kelly, Henning Laugerud, Salvador Ryan

Northern European
Reformations
Transnational Perspectives
Edited by
James E. Kelly · Henning Laugerud ·
Salvador Ryan
Northern European Reformations
· ·
James E. Kelly Henning Laugerud
Salvador Ryan
Editors
Northern European
Reformations
Transnational Perspectives
Editors
James E. Kelly Henning Laugerud
Durham University University of Bergen
Durham, UK Bergen, Norway
Salvador Ryan
St Patrick’s College
Pontifical University
Maynooth, Ireland
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Acknowledgments
This volume has its roots in two workshops, one hosted by Durham
University in the UK and the other by the University of Bergen in
Norway. We would first like to acknowledge the support that made these
events possible, in particular that from Durham University’s Centre for
Catholic Studies, and Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies;
the Bergen University Fund, the University Museum of Bergen, and the
DepartmentofLinguistic,LiteraryandAestheticStudiesattheUniversity
of Bergen; and the Faculty of Theology, St Patrick’s College Maynooth.
Wealsowishtothankthosewhoassistedintherunningofbothevents,
including Hannah Thomas, Claire Marsland, Jonathan Bush, the staff of
Ushaw College in Durham, and the Director of the University Museum,
University of Bergen, Professor Henrik von Achen.
We are grateful to those who have helped during the publication
process of this volume, including Michael Potterton, who generously
assisted with some technical glitches at an early stage of the prepara-
tion of this manuscript; Francis Young, who proof-read the manuscript;
and the staff at Palgrave for their courtesy, professionalism and patience
in guiding the volume through to completion. In particular, we thank
Joseph Johnson, Emily Russell and Molly Beck, and the anonymous peer
reviewers for their helpful feedback.
Finally, we wish to acknowledge the support of those fundamental
components of any edited collection: the contributors. It was a pleasure
to spend time with them at the workshops discussing this project and we
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aregratefulfortheirinvolvementinthevolume.Theirwillingnesstowork
with us as a team has meant that we, the three editors, are (just about…)
stilltalkingtoeachother!Inotherwords,wethankthemforprovingthat
that much talked-about, but not always evident, goal can exist: academic
collegiality. We hope this volume is a fitting tribute to that.
Contents
1 Introduction 1
James E. Kelly, Henning Laugerud, and Salvador Ryan
Part I Slow Reformations
2 Reformation on Scotland’s Northern Frontier: The
Orkney Islands, 1560–c.1700 21
Peter Marshall
3 The Sidaskipti: Iceland’s Change of Fashion 49
Jack P. Cunningham
4 “Another Age Will Damage and Destroy”: The
Radicalised Reformation in Denmark-Norway
in the Later Part of the Sixteenth Century 77
Henrik von Achen
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Part II Migration, Exile and Interconnections
5 Reformation Across the North Sea: Early
Protestant Connections Between Denmark, England
and Scotland 115
Morten Fink-Jensen
6 Confessional Migration and Religious Change
in the Northern European Reformations 137
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
7 Exiles and Activists: A Comparison
of the Counter-Reformation in Wales and Norway 161
James January-McCann
Part III Zones of Circulation: Transfer of Ideas and
People
8 “Islands Not Far from Norway, Denmark
and Germany”: Shetland, Orkney and the Spread
of the Reformation in the North 191
Charlotte Methuen
9 “Nullus”: The Ending of Conventual Religious Life
in Denmark–Norway, England and Wales, Ireland,
and Scotland 213
John McCafferty
Part IV Appropriations and Adaptations
10 DevotioninTransition:ThePracticeofAppropriation
of Danish and British Medieval Prayer Books 235
Laura Katrine Skinnebach
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11 The Martyrdom of St Edmund (d. 869) at the Hands
of the Danes and Its Legacy in Early Modern England 269
Susan Royal
12 Seventeenth-Century Ireland and Norway: Peripheral
Reformations in Print? 295
Raymond Gillespie
Part V Northern European Reformations over the
Longue Durée
13 Books from the British Isles in the Collections
of the Eighteenth-Century Norwegian Clergy 319
Gina Dahl
14 ‘Superstition’intheReformationPolemicsofEngland
and Denmark-Norway - and the Emergence
of Folklore and Popular Religion 347
Henning Laugerud and John Ødemark
15 The Missionary Problem in Early Modern
Protestantism: British, Irish and Scandinavian
Perspectives 377
Alec Ryrie
16 Epilogue 405
Carlos Eire
Index 415
List of Contributors
Jack P. Cunningham Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK
Gina Dahl Bergen University Library, Section of Special Collections,
Bergen, Norway
Carlos Eire Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Morten Fink-Jensen University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Raymond Gillespie Department of History, Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Ireland
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
James January-McCann RoyalCommissionontheAncientandHistor-
ical Monuments of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
James E. Kelly Durham University, Durham, UK
Henning Laugerud University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Peter Marshall Department of History, University of Warwick,
Coventry, UK
John McCafferty School of History, University College Dublin,
Dublin, Ireland
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