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Informationen zum Autor Lee Palmer Wandel is a Professor of History, Religious Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli's Zurich (1990), Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel (1994) and The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy (2006), all with Cambridge University Press. She also co-authored (with Robin Winks) Europe in a Wider World, 1350-1650 (2003) and co-edited (with Walter Melion) Early Modern Eyes (2009). Klappentext Lee Palmer Wandel interweaves narratives of the Reformation and the encounter between Europe and the Western hemisphere.The Reformation and the encounter between Europe and the Western hemisphere have long been treated as separate events. Lee Palmer Wandel brings the two narratives together, casting a history of human difference, of multiple understandings of Christianity, each shaped by the encounter with unknown worlds. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Beginnings: 1. Christianity in 1500; 2. 'The New World'; 3. 'The World'; Part II. Fragmentation: 4. The word of God and the ordering of the world; 5. The ties that bind; 6. Boundaries; Part III. Religion Reconceived: 7. Christians; 8. Things and places; 9. Incarnation; Conclusion.
