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Basel And The Wittenberg Concord, Amy Nelson Burnett
Basel And The Wittenberg Concord, Amy Nelson Burnett
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Walther Kohler ended his classic account of the eucharistic controversy, Zwingli und Luther, with a description of the synod of Swiss theologians that met in Zurich in April of 1538. Held almost two years after the signing of the Wittenberg Concord, the synod was Martin Bucer's last opportunity to persuade the Swiss to continue negotiations for eucharistic concord with Luther. Bucer had reason to hope for positive results from the synod, for at least some of the Swiss were open to further discussion. The delegates from Basel, Bern, St. Gall, and Mulhouse supported a favorable response to a recent …
Review Of Christine Peters, Patterns Of Piety: Women, Gender And Religion In Late Medieval And Refomation England, Carole Levin
Review Of Christine Peters, Patterns Of Piety: Women, Gender And Religion In Late Medieval And Refomation England, Carole Levin
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Peters has written an important book about religion in late medieval and early modern England. Her discussion of the implications for women and gender in the transition in England from Catholicism to Protestantism is ingenious, thoughtful, and elegant. It is thoroughly researched and beautifully written. Peters questions the assumption that the loss of the Virgin Mary was a blow to women's status, arguing that Protestantism is not an alien environment for women because of the model of the frail Christian as a woman devoted to Christ. Rather than seeing the decisive moment for women's involvement being the break with Rome, …
Creating Kearny: Forging A Historical Identity For A Central Arizona Mining Community, Douglas Seefeldt
Creating Kearny: Forging A Historical Identity For A Central Arizona Mining Community, Douglas Seefeldt
Department of History: Faculty Publications
The town of Kearny, located on the north bank of the Gila River between Hayden and Superior on State Highway 177, scarcely seems out of the ordinary. A forty-year-old development nestled high in the copper-rich hills of east-central Arizona, the small community boasts the usual schools, shops, churches, and a public monument to its namesake. The monument, a simple cairn-like stone structure with a bronze plaque affixed to one side, commemorates the significant military achievements of Brevet Maj. Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, who is best remembered for leading part of the Army of the West through the region on his …
Oñate’S Foot: Histories, Landscapes, And Contested Memories In The Southwest, Douglas Seefeldt
Oñate’S Foot: Histories, Landscapes, And Contested Memories In The Southwest, Douglas Seefeldt
Department of History: Faculty Publications
In Alcade, New Mexico, in January 1998, the right foot of a bronze statue of Don Juan de Oñate (c. 1550-1626; known as “the last conquistador”) was removed by “vandals” in an effort to counterbalance the upcoming 400th anniversary of his settlement by dramatizing his infamous order to cut off the right foot of 24 Acoma Pueblo prisoners in 1599.
While Oñate's colonization of the American Southwest as an actual event is long since past, controversies surrounding its interpretation continue to occur because publicly articulated views of the past remain contested so long as dfferent groups remember different pasts and …
Maternal Colonialism: White Women And Indigenous Child Removal In The American West And Australia, 1880–1940, Margaret D. Jacobs
Maternal Colonialism: White Women And Indigenous Child Removal In The American West And Australia, 1880–1940, Margaret D. Jacobs
Department of History: Faculty Publications
This study of white women’s involvement in the removal of indigenous children in a comparative, international context offers an opportunity for recasting the history of women and gender in the American West as part of a larger story of gender and settler colonialism around the globe.
Maternalist politics, though professing a concern and sisterhood with all women, did not promote equality between women, but reaffirmed class, racial, and religious hierarchies. Ironically, white women maternalists who sought to use their association with motherhood to gain greater power in society were simultaneously engaged in dispossessing indigenous mothers of their children. In challenging …
"To Oblige My Brethren": The Reformed Funeral Sermons Of Johann Brandmüller, Amy Nelson Burnett
"To Oblige My Brethren": The Reformed Funeral Sermons Of Johann Brandmüller, Amy Nelson Burnett
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Sixteenth century Lutheran funeral sermons were intended for both clerical and popular audiences and sought to instruct and console the grieving. Unlike the Lutherans, the Reformed rejected most funeral ceremonial, including the preaching of funeral sermons.The collection of funeral sermons by the Reformed pastor Johann Brandmüller is unique in applying the Reformed style of published sermons, intended primarily as a theological resource for pastors, to a distinctively Lutheran genre. Brandmuller's Funeral Sermons (1572) was a theological compendium devoted to scripture passages deemed appropriate for funerals. The 380 sermons covered topics that could be preached at the funerals of people from …
Review Of Subordinate Subjects: Gender, The Political Nation, And Literary Form In England, 1588-1688 By Mihoko Suzuki, Carole Levin
Review Of Subordinate Subjects: Gender, The Political Nation, And Literary Form In England, 1588-1688 By Mihoko Suzuki, Carole Levin
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Mihoko Suzuki carefully puts together class and gender in her study, Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588-1688, by showing the similarities and linkages as well as the differences between apprentices and women in their desire to be part of the political nation in early modern England. At the time their attempts to gain power and autonomy were ultimately unsuccessful but they did have important ramifications later. Historians and political theorists have traditionally seen the French revolution as the beginning of the ideal of equality, what Suzuki calls "the political imaginary of equality" (2). Yet …
The Myth Of The Swiss Lutherans: Martin Bucer And The Eucharistic Controversy In Bern, Amy Nelson Burnett
The Myth Of The Swiss Lutherans: Martin Bucer And The Eucharistic Controversy In Bern, Amy Nelson Burnett
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Most accounts of the eucharistic controversy assume that after the Swiss cities rejected the Wittenberg Concord, Martin Bucer had no more influence in Switzerland. In Bern, however, a party supporting Bucer's concord theology dominated the church from the later 1530s through the 1540s. Although traditionally identified as Lutherans, the theological statements of this group demonstrate their loyalty to Bucer's "middle way" between Luther and Zwingli. The expulsion of this party from Bern in 1548 meant the end of Bucer's influence in western Switzerland, finalized by the Consensus Tigurinus, which carefully avoided any Buceran terminology.
Das Museum Für Moderne Und Zeitgenössische Kunst In Bozen, Gerald Steinacher
Das Museum Für Moderne Und Zeitgenössische Kunst In Bozen, Gerald Steinacher
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Kunst und Kultur erfreuen sich in den letzten Jahren eines ungeahnten Interesses und größter Wertschätzung. Beide sind längst zu einem be· stimmenden Faktor für den Tourismus und die Wirtschaft geworden. Ausstellungen und Museen vermelden BesucherInnenrekorde, Spit. zenwerke erzielen laufend Sensationspreise und speziell in Mitteleuropa ist geradezu ein Boom an Museumsbauten für moderne Kunst zu verzeichnen. Nicht zu übersehen sind auch die Aktivitäten in Graz, Rovereto, Linz und Innsbruck. Südtirol hatte lange Zeit geringes Interesse am Kulturangebot der Moderne - das Land war noch weit bis in die 1960er Jahre ländlich geprägt und bewegte sich in konservativen Kulturhorizonten. Die Provinz Bozen …