Shaping the Bible in the Reformation - Books, Scholars and Their Readers in the Sixteenth Century

This volume collects significant new scholarship on the late mediaeval and early modern Bible, engaging with the work of theologians, the devotional needs of the laity and the shape their concerns gave to the most important book of the age.

Info autore

Bruce Gordon is the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School. He is the author and editor of a number of books on the European Reformation, including (with Peter Marshall) The Place of the Dead. Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2000), The Swiss Reformation (Manchester, 2002) and (with Emidio Campi) Architect of Reformation. An Introduction to Heinrich Bullinger, 1504-1575 (Baker Academic, 2004). His most recent book is Calvin, published by Yale University Press in 2009.

Matthew McLean is Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He works on religion, science and the culture of humanism in the early modern period. His first book, The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster. Describing the World in the Reformation was published in 2007 by Ashgate. He is presently working on the AHRC Protestant Latin Bible Project.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Bruce Gordon (Editore), Matthew McLean (Editore)
• Editore: Brill
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 22.06.2012
• EAN: 9789004229471
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22947-1
• Pagine: 320
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 241 mm x 23 mm
• Peso: 680 g
• Serie: Library of the Written Word
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Cristianesimo