The Reformation of Liturgy - Time and Matter Reconceived

Examining churches, altars, vestments, and liturgical time through a medieval liturgist's eyes, this book offers a new understanding of the Reformation and its radical reconception of worship, matter, and time.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: 1. Ecclesia; 2. Altars; 3. Missals; 4. Vestments; Part II: 5. Codex; 6. Adiaphora, Idol, Idolatry; 7. Removal and Revelation; Conclusion; Bibliography.

About the author

Lee Palmer Wandel is the WARF Michael Baxandall and Linda and Stanley Sher Professor of History 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 (1995), The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy (2006), and The Reformation: Towards a New History (2011).

Product details

• Authors: Wandel Lee Palmer
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2025
• EAN: 9781009648820
• ISBN: 978-1-009-64882-0
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, RELIGION / History, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Western Europe, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Relating to Christian people and groups, European history: Reformation, Western Continental Europe, Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches, Calvinist, Reformed and Presbyterian Churches