Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe

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Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe
Author : Wietse de Boer
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Publisher : BRILL
Language : English
Release Date : 16 November 2012
ISBN : 9789004236349
Pages : 521 pages
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This interdisciplinary volume examines the role of sensation in the religious transformations of early modern Europe. Sensation was both central to the doctrinal disputes of the Reformation and critical in shaping new or reformed devotional practices.

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