Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe

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Contents: Preface Introduction: Lutheran churches and confessional identity, Andrew Spicer Early modern Lutheran churches: redefining the boundaries of the holy and the profane, Vera Isaiasz Lutheran churches and confessional competition in Augsburg, Emily Fisher Gray Epitaphs in dialogue with sacred space: post-Reformation furnishings in the parish churches of St Nikolai and St Marien in Berlin, Maria Dieters Framing the sacred: Lutheran church furnishings in the Holy Roman Empire, Margit ThAfner Marian imagery and its function in the Lutheran churches of early modern Transylvania, Maria Craciun 'On Sundays for the laity ... we allow mass vestments, altars and candles to remain': the role of pre-Reformation ecclesiastical vestments in the formation of confessional, corporate and 'national' identities, Evelin Wetter The material presence of music in church: the Hanseatic city of LA1/4beck, Matthias Range Lutheran theology and artistic media responses to the theological discourse on the visual arts, Sven Rune Havsteen Re-forming the confessional space: early Lutheran churches in Denmark, c.1536-1660, Birgitte BAggild Johannsen and Hugo Johannsen State church and church state: churches and their interiors in post-Reformation Norway, 1537-1705, A~ystein Ekroll Church furnishings and rituals in a Swedish provincial cathedral from 1527 to c.1660, Riitta Laitinen 'Das Geistliche GebAwde der Kirche': the Lutheran Church in early modern Estonia as a meeting place of theological, social and artistic ideas, Krista Kodres Lutherans in Cracow - contesting the sacred topography, Agnieszka Madej-Anderson Lutheran churches in Poland, Jan Harasimowicz 'Hic coeli porta est, hic domus ecce dei'. Lutheran churches in the Dutch world, c.1566-1719, Andrew Spicer Afterword, Susan C. Karant-Nunn Index.