Martin Christ
Biographic Data
| ID | 4246768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Christ |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Christ |
| SIGNATURE | CHRIST M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Erfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2543-8266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Death and the Senses
Death and the Senses: Introduction. Un article de la revue Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Special issue: Death and the Senses in the Early Modern World) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Smell of the Dead in London, c. 1700–1850
While some scholars in eighteenth-century England identified a link between the smell of the dead and the spread of diseases, it was not until the nineteenth century that the dead were no longer buried in London’s inner-urban churchyards. This article draws attention to the multiplicity of voices when it came to the links between bad smells and disease and argues that whether there was a connection between the two was by no means a matter of scho…
Circulating the Word of God in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The Conversion of Gottfried Rabe
This article considers visual and textual descriptions of conversions to Lutheranism by focusing on the former Augustinian monk Gottfried Rabe, who delivered his revocation sermon in Wittenberg in 1601 and features on two woodcuts as well as on a commemorative medal. Through a close analysis of the visual tropes and symbolism in these under‐studied sources, broader questions about Lutheranism at the turn of the sixteenth century are raised, inclu…
Passionate Peace
Journal Article Passionate Peace: Emotions and Religious Coexistence in Later Sixteenth-Century Augsburg Get access Passionate Peace: Emotions and Religious Coexistence in Later Sixteenth-Century Augsburg. By Sean Dunwoody. Leiden: Brill. 2022. xii + 318pp.€105.00(hardback/e-book). Martin Christ Martin Christ University of Erfurt, Germany [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German H…
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
Cristina Sasse, Die Stadt lesen. Englische „Directories“ als Wissens- und Orientierungsmedien, 1760–1830. (Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London, Bd. 85.) Berlin/Boston, De Gr…
Article Cristina Sasse, Die Stadt lesen. Englische „Directories“ als Wissens- und Orientierungsmedien, 1760–1830. (Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London, Bd. 85.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2021 was published on December 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 315, issue 3)
Regulating urban death in early modern German towns
The article argues that in the course of the early modern period, urban death was ordered in new ways. Since the mid-sixteenth century, clerics and church officials already kept lists of the deceased in their congregation. Gradually, these functions were taken over by urban magistrates, who also promoted a new kind of order during burials. Through the rise of additional instructions, rules and orders, they gave urban death a new shape. The reason…
Preaching during Plague Epidemics in Early Modern Germany, c .1520–1618
This article considers preaching during plague epidemics in early modern Germany, tracing how preachers and priests engaged with the crisis that befell their towns. It does so by discussing three important features of preaching during plague epidemics to illustrate the arrangements made during outbreaks of plague and what they can tell us more broadly about preaching during times of crisis. First, it shows the changes and continuities in personne…
Sensing Multiconfessionality in Early Modern Germany
This article brings together sensory history and research on multiconfessionalism in early modern Germany. It argues that research has not yet paid sufficient attention to the fact that many of the towns in the Holy Roman Empire were not monoconfessional but instead highly diverse, home to a range of religious groups, which influenced the respective town’s sensescape. For a fuller understanding of multiconfessional settings, we can adopt the sens…
Introduction
Tyrannei und Teufel
While the history of early modern Catholicism in Spain, Portugal or Italy is closely linked to the inquisition, it was never institutionalized in the Holy Roman Empire. Marie von Lüneburg’s monograph, based on her 2018 PhD thesis, shows that the inquisition formed an important part of early modern Catholicism and its perception in the German-speaking territories nonetheless. Von Lüneburg asks how the Spanish and Roman inquisitions, and Catholicis…
Robert von Friedeburg, Luther’s Legacy
Catholic Cultures of Lutheranism? Confessional Ambiguity and Syncretism in Sixteenth-Century Upper Lusatia
The Town Chronicle of Johannes Hass
The council annals of Johannes Hass, the last Catholic mayor of the West Bohemian town of Görlitz, are a fascinating document. In a single source we can see the author’s changing interpretation of divine intervention between c.1509 and 1542. After the introduction of the Reformation, Hass steadily decreased the importance of God, whilst the Devil became increasingly important. Regardless of Hass’s staunch Catholicism, Martin Luther’s impact can b…
Non-renewability in forest rotations
Introduction
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
Non-renewability in forest rotations
The Town Chronicle of Johannes Hass
The council annals of Johannes Hass, the last Catholic mayor of the West Bohemian town of Görlitz, are a fascinating document. In a single source we can see the author’s changing interpretation of divine intervention between c.1509 and 1542. After the introduction of the Reformation, Hass steadily decreased the importance of God, whilst the Devil became increasingly important. Regardless of Hass’s staunch Catholicism, Martin Luther’s impact can b…
Catholic Cultures of Lutheranism? Confessional Ambiguity and Syncretism in Sixteenth-Century Upper Lusatia
Robert von Friedeburg, Luther’s Legacy
Tyrannei und Teufel
While the history of early modern Catholicism in Spain, Portugal or Italy is closely linked to the inquisition, it was never institutionalized in the Holy Roman Empire. Marie von Lüneburg’s monograph, based on her 2018 PhD thesis, shows that the inquisition formed an important part of early modern Catholicism and its perception in the German-speaking territories nonetheless. Von Lüneburg asks how the Spanish and Roman inquisitions, and Catholicis…
Cristina Sasse, Die Stadt lesen. Englische „Directories“ als Wissens- und Orientierungsmedien, 1760–1830. (Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London, Bd. 85.) Berlin/Boston, De Gr…
Article Cristina Sasse, Die Stadt lesen. Englische „Directories“ als Wissens- und Orientierungsmedien, 1760–1830. (Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London, Bd. 85.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2021 was published on December 1, 2022 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 315, issue 3)
Regulating urban death in early modern German towns
The article argues that in the course of the early modern period, urban death was ordered in new ways. Since the mid-sixteenth century, clerics and church officials already kept lists of the deceased in their congregation. Gradually, these functions were taken over by urban magistrates, who also promoted a new kind of order during burials. Through the rise of additional instructions, rules and orders, they gave urban death a new shape. The reason…
Preaching during Plague Epidemics in Early Modern Germany, c .1520–1618
This article considers preaching during plague epidemics in early modern Germany, tracing how preachers and priests engaged with the crisis that befell their towns. It does so by discussing three important features of preaching during plague epidemics to illustrate the arrangements made during outbreaks of plague and what they can tell us more broadly about preaching during times of crisis. First, it shows the changes and continuities in personne…
Sensing Multiconfessionality in Early Modern Germany
This article brings together sensory history and research on multiconfessionalism in early modern Germany. It argues that research has not yet paid sufficient attention to the fact that many of the towns in the Holy Roman Empire were not monoconfessional but instead highly diverse, home to a range of religious groups, which influenced the respective town’s sensescape. For a fuller understanding of multiconfessional settings, we can adopt the sens…
Introduction
The Conversion of Gottfried Rabe
This article considers visual and textual descriptions of conversions to Lutheranism by focusing on the former Augustinian monk Gottfried Rabe, who delivered his revocation sermon in Wittenberg in 1601 and features on two woodcuts as well as on a commemorative medal. Through a close analysis of the visual tropes and symbolism in these under‐studied sources, broader questions about Lutheranism at the turn of the sixteenth century are raised, inclu…
Passionate Peace
Journal Article Passionate Peace: Emotions and Religious Coexistence in Later Sixteenth-Century Augsburg Get access Passionate Peace: Emotions and Religious Coexistence in Later Sixteenth-Century Augsburg. By Sean Dunwoody. Leiden: Brill. 2022. xii + 318pp.€105.00(hardback/e-book). Martin Christ Martin Christ University of Erfurt, Germany [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German H…
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
Death and the Senses
Death and the Senses: Introduction. Un article de la revue Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Special issue: Death and the Senses in the Early Modern World) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Smell of the Dead in London, c. 1700–1850
While some scholars in eighteenth-century England identified a link between the smell of the dead and the spread of diseases, it was not until the nineteenth century that the dead were no longer buried in London’s inner-urban churchyards. This article draws attention to the multiplicity of voices when it came to the links between bad smells and disease and argues that whether there was a connection between the two was by no means a matter of scho…
Circulating the Word of God in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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