Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe

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1. Introduction: the dimension of sacred space in Reformation Europe Will Coster and Andrew Spicer
2. Sacred church and worldly tavern: reassessing early modern divide Bert Kümin
3. Sacred image and sacred space in Lutheran Germany Bridget Heal
4. Places of sanctification: the liturgical sacrality of Genevan reformed churches, 1535–66 Christian Grosse
5. 'What kinde of house a kirk is': conventicles, consecrations and the concept of sacred space in post-Reformation Scotland Andrew Spicer
6. Psalms, groans and dog-whippers: the soundscape of sacred space in the English parish church, 1547–1642 John Craig
7. A microcosm of community: burial, space and society in Chester 1598–1633 Will Coster
8. 'Apud Ecclesia': church burial and the development of funerary rooms in Moldavia Maria Craciun
9. Reading Rome as a sacred landscape, c. 1575–1635 Simon Ditchfield
10. Gardening for God: Carmelite deserts and the sacralisation of natural space in counter-Reformation Spain Trevor Johnson
11. Holywell: contesting sacred space in post-Reformation Wales Alexandra Walsham
12. The sacred space of Julien Maunoir: the re-Christianising of the landscape in seventeenth-century Brittany Elizabeth Tingle
13. Sacralising space: reclaiming civic culture in early modern France Amanda Eurich
14. Breaking images and building bridges: the making of sacred space in early modern Bohemia Howard Louthan
15. Mapping the boundaries of confession: space and urban religious life in the Diocese of Augsburg, 1648–1750 Duane Corpis.

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