Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe

Singing the Resurrection brings music to the foreground of Reformation studies, as author Erin Lambert explores song as a primary mode for the expression of belief among ordinary Europeans in the sixteenth century, for the embodiment of individual piety, and the creation of new communities of
belief. Together, resurrection and song reveal how sixteenth-century Christians--from learned theologians to ordinary artisans, and Anabaptist martyrs to Reformed Christians facing exile--defined belief not merely as an assertion or affirmation but as a continuous, living practice. Thus these
voices, raised in song, tell a story of the Reformation that reaches far beyond the transformation from one community of faith to many. With case studies drawn from each of the major confessions of the Reformation--Lutheran, Anabaptist, Reformed, and Catholic--Singing the Resurrection reveals
sixteenth-century belief in its full complexity.


Author: Erin Lambert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/13/2017
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780190661649

About the Author

Erin Lambert is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the Social Science Research Council.