C Scott Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1531308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Scott Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Paulician Dualism Revisited
Preserved within the corpus of the East Roman polemicist Peter the Sicilian, several unassuming statements subtly contradict the historical consensus that the Paulicians espoused absolute dualism. According to their own testimony, rather than literally upholding two gods, as their Roman adversaries alleged, the Paulicians worshipped the heavenly Father but contended that the devil was merely a false god to whom the Romans were subject. This artic…
Interpreting Early Modern Europe
Reformations
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City Celebrations
Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses and the Origins of the Reformation Narrative
With the quincentenary of the German Reformation now upon us, it is worth revisiting how, and why, the posting of the 95 theses emerged as such a defining moment in the Reformation story. It is easy to understand why it has assumed pride of place in modern histories. What is less easy to understand, however, is why the theses-posting emerged as the critical moment in the early modern accounts, for there were many other moments with even more dram…
Luther's Lost Books and the Myth of the Memory Cult
On the morning of 18 February 1546, in his birthplace of Eisleben, Martin Luther died of heart failure. Just as Johann Friedrich, Elector of Saxony, had feared, and Luther himself had prophesied, his trip to the duchy of Mansfeld to settle a jurisdictional dispute had proven too much. Despite the efforts of the people gathered at his bedside, who included two of his sons, the two pastors Justus Jonas and Michael Caelius, two local doctors, and th…
Living with Religious Diversity in Early-Modern Europe
Martin Luther
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Saints, Sacrilege, and Sedition
Journal Article Saints, Sacrilege, and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations, by Eamon Duffy Get access Saints, Sacrilege, and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations, by Eamon Duffy (London: Bloomsbury, 2012; pp. 312. £20). C. Scott Dixon C. Scott Dixon 1Queen’s University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 541,…
Der Anfang der Reformation
Journal Article Der Anfang der Reformation: Studien zur Kontextualität der Theologie, Publizistik und Inszenierung Luthers und der reformatorischen Bewegung, by Thomas Kaufmann Get access Der Anfang der Reformation: Studien zur Kontextualität der Theologie, Publizistik und Inszenierung Luthers und der reformatorischen Bewegung, by Thomas Kaufmann (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012; pp. xvii + 676. €139). C. Scott Dixon C. Scott Dixon 1Queen’s Universi…
Allyson F. Creasman. Censorship and Civic Order in Reformation Germany, 1517–1648
Allyson F. Creasman's book studies the flow of ideas during the German Reformation from the formative years of urban reform to the confessionalized atmosphere of the Thirty Years' War. At one level, it “aims to reassess the Reformation's spread by examining how censorship impacted public understanding of reform” (p. 3). This requires close study of the publishing industry and its control in the urban environment, which Creasman does using archiva…
Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy
The Sense of the Past in Reformation Germany
This two-part article is a study of the Lower Saxon Lutheran pastor-historian Johannes Letzner (1531–1613) and his efforts to write a history of the lands of Braunschweig-Lüneburg entitled the Chronicle of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Göttingen. Although the work itself remained, and remains, in manuscript form, it is a valuable resource for modern historians, for not only does it demonstrate how early modern scholars began to piece together and concept…
The Sense of the Past in Reformation Germany
In the latter decades of the sixteenth century the Lower Saxon clergyman and historian Johannes Letzner (1531-1613) devoted himself to a projected history of the Welf lands, the Chronicle of Braunschweig-Lneburg-Gttingen. While preparing the Chronicle, however, he also wrote and published a series of smaller works, including genealogies, regional chronicles, histories of religious foundations, almanacs, and in the latter stages of his life the mo…
Luther’s Aesop
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The Negotiated Reformation
In The Negotiated Reformation, Christopher W. Close revisits the urban Reformation and the models of reform developed by a previous generation of historians, not to call into doubt the famous claim that the Reformation was an ‘urban event’, but rather to re-examine the framework of social, political, economic and cultural relations between the cities and how this framework influenced the process of reform. More specifically, Close sets out to exa…
Protestants
Obedient Heretics
Urban Order and Religious Coexistence in the German Imperial City
In the writing of the German Reformation, there has long been a strong association between urban history and the evangelical movement. The sentiment has been around since the days of Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), but it was the publication of Bernd Moeller's Imperial Cities and the Reformation (1962) that turned the rather casual notion into a research paradigm. Moeller imagined the Reformation in terms of the medieval cityscape. “It is importan…
Faith and History on the Eve of Enlightenment
When it first appeared in Germany, Gottfried Arnold's History of heretics (1699) was a publishing sensation, immediately causing a stir due to its radical reinterpretation of the Christian past. Numerous scholars wrote against it, but the most determined was the Orthodox Lutheran Ernst Salomon Cyprian, who considered the central thesis of the work – that the history of the Christian Church was a history of decline – a deliberate attack on the pri…
The German Reformation
Editor's Preface Introduction Introduction to the Second Edition A Note on References Some Reformation Myths Religion and Reform The Reformation as an Evangelical Movement Social Location of the Reformation Politics and the Reformation Varieties of Reformation The Impact of Reform Supplementary Chapter C.S.Dixon Select Bibliography Supplementary Bibliography Index
The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe
The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe provides a comprehensive survey of the Protestant clergy in Europe during the confessional age. Eight contributions, written by historians with specialist
The Reformation in Germany
The Reformation in Germany
Charles V and the Historians
Charles V and the Historians: Some Recent German Works on the Emperor and his Reign Get access C. Scott Dixon C. Scott Dixon The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2003, Pages 104–124, https://doi.org/10.1191/0266355403gh277xx Published: 01 January 2003
Urban Order and Religious Coexistence in the German Imperial City
In the writing of the German Reformation, there has long been a strong association between urban history and the evangelical movement. The sentiment has been around since the days of Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), but it was the publication of Bernd Moeller's Imperial Cities and the Reformation (1962) that turned the rather casual notion into a research paradigm. Moeller imagined the Reformation in terms of the medieval cityscape. “It is importan…
Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses and the Origins of the Reformation Narrative
With the quincentenary of the German Reformation now upon us, it is worth revisiting how, and why, the posting of the 95 theses emerged as such a defining moment in the Reformation story. It is easy to understand why it has assumed pride of place in modern histories. What is less easy to understand, however, is why the theses-posting emerged as the critical moment in the early modern accounts, for there were many other moments with even more dram…
Faith and History on the Eve of Enlightenment
When it first appeared in Germany, Gottfried Arnold's History of heretics (1699) was a publishing sensation, immediately causing a stir due to its radical reinterpretation of the Christian past. Numerous scholars wrote against it, but the most determined was the Orthodox Lutheran Ernst Salomon Cyprian, who considered the central thesis of the work – that the history of the Christian Church was a history of decline – a deliberate attack on the pri…
Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany
Lutheran orthodoxy of the later sixteenth century was marked by a sense of pessimism and anxiety. This was due in part to the apocalypticism at the heart of Luther's theology, but it was also the heritage of failed expectations. At the century's end, Lutheran clergymen doubted whether the movement had succeeded in its essential task, that of winning hearts and minds to the new faith. In the face of this perceived failure, and inspired by the urge…
Urban Culture and Court Culture in the European Past
Flesh and stone. The body and the city in western civilization . By Richard Sennett. London: Faber & Faber, 1994. Pp. 431. ISBN 0-571-17390-X. £25.00 Renaissance warrior and patron. The reign of Francis I . By R. J. Knecht. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxv+612. ISBN 0-521-41796-1. £45.00. The early modern city 1450–1750 . By Christopher R. Friedrichs. London: Longman, 1995. Pp. ix+381. ISBN 0-582-01321-6. £14.99. The court art…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access C. SCOTT DIXON C. SCOTT DIXON Queen's UniversityBelfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 451, April 1998, Pages 444–445, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.451.444 Published: 01 April 1998
Narratives of German History After the Reformation
Die katholische Konfessionalisierung . Edited by Wolfgang Reinhard and Heinz Schilling. ‘Schriften des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte’, Vol. 198. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1995. Pp. xiii+472. ISBN 3-579-01666-0. DM 148. The Salzburg transaction: expulsion and redemption in eighteenth-century Germany . By Mack Walker. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi+242. ISBN 0-8014-2777-0. $38.50. War, state and society in…
Antwerp in the Age of Reformation
Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany
Lutheran orthodoxy of the later sixteenth century was marked by a sense of pessimism and anxiety. This was due in part to the apocalypticism at the heart of Luther's theology, but it was also the heritage of failed expectations. At the century's end, Lutheran clergymen doubted whether the movement had succeeded in its essential task, that of winning hearts and minds to the new faith. In the face of this perceived failure, and inspired by the urge…
Orthodoxy and Reform
The Reformation in Germany
The German Reformation
Das Königreich der Täufer. Reformation und Herrschaft der Täufer in Münster . Münster
Das Königreich der Täufer. Reformation und Herrschaft der Täufer in Münster. Münster: Stadtmuseum Münster, 2000. 2 vols. 252pp; 240pp. Over 200 plates. Bibliography. No price stated. - Volume 29 Issue 2
The German Reformation
Editor's Preface Introduction Introduction to the Second Edition A Note on References Some Reformation Myths Religion and Reform The Reformation as an Evangelical Movement Social Location of the Reformation Politics and the Reformation Varieties of Reformation The Impact of Reform Supplementary Chapter C.S.Dixon Select Bibliography Supplementary Bibliography Index
The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe
The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe provides a comprehensive survey of the Protestant clergy in Europe during the confessional age. Eight contributions, written by historians with specialist
The Reformation in Germany
The Reformation in Germany
Charles V and the Historians
Charles V and the Historians: Some Recent German Works on the Emperor and his Reign Get access C. Scott Dixon C. Scott Dixon The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2003, Pages 104–124, https://doi.org/10.1191/0266355403gh277xx Published: 01 January 2003
Faith and History on the Eve of Enlightenment
When it first appeared in Germany, Gottfried Arnold's History of heretics (1699) was a publishing sensation, immediately causing a stir due to its radical reinterpretation of the Christian past. Numerous scholars wrote against it, but the most determined was the Orthodox Lutheran Ernst Salomon Cyprian, who considered the central thesis of the work – that the history of the Christian Church was a history of decline – a deliberate attack on the pri…
Obedient Heretics
Urban Order and Religious Coexistence in the German Imperial City
In the writing of the German Reformation, there has long been a strong association between urban history and the evangelical movement. The sentiment has been around since the days of Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), but it was the publication of Bernd Moeller's Imperial Cities and the Reformation (1962) that turned the rather casual notion into a research paradigm. Moeller imagined the Reformation in terms of the medieval cityscape. “It is importan…
Protestants
The Negotiated Reformation
In The Negotiated Reformation, Christopher W. Close revisits the urban Reformation and the models of reform developed by a previous generation of historians, not to call into doubt the famous claim that the Reformation was an ‘urban event’, but rather to re-examine the framework of social, political, economic and cultural relations between the cities and how this framework influenced the process of reform. More specifically, Close sets out to exa…
Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy
The Sense of the Past in Reformation Germany
This two-part article is a study of the Lower Saxon Lutheran pastor-historian Johannes Letzner (1531–1613) and his efforts to write a history of the lands of Braunschweig-Lüneburg entitled the Chronicle of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Göttingen. Although the work itself remained, and remains, in manuscript form, it is a valuable resource for modern historians, for not only does it demonstrate how early modern scholars began to piece together and concept…
The Sense of the Past in Reformation Germany
In the latter decades of the sixteenth century the Lower Saxon clergyman and historian Johannes Letzner (1531-1613) devoted himself to a projected history of the Welf lands, the Chronicle of Braunschweig-Lneburg-Gttingen. While preparing the Chronicle, however, he also wrote and published a series of smaller works, including genealogies, regional chronicles, histories of religious foundations, almanacs, and in the latter stages of his life the mo…
Luther’s Aesop
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Martin Luther
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Saints, Sacrilege, and Sedition
Journal Article Saints, Sacrilege, and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations, by Eamon Duffy Get access Saints, Sacrilege, and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations, by Eamon Duffy (London: Bloomsbury, 2012; pp. 312. £20). C. Scott Dixon C. Scott Dixon 1Queen’s University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 541,…
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