Table of Contents

Introduction; B.Scribner Female Spirituality and the Infant Jesus in Late Medieval Dominican Convents; U.Rublace The 'Crown' and the 'Red Gown': Hussite Popular Religion; T.A.Fudge Judengasse to Christian Quarter: The Phenomenon of the Converted Synagogue in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Holy Roman Empire; J.M.Minty Institoris at Innsbruck: Heinrich Institoris, the Summis Desiderantes and the Brixen Witch-Trial of 1485; E.Wilson Witchcraft and Popular Religion in Early Modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber; A.Rowlands Popular Beliefs and the Reformation; C.S.Dixon Why was Private Confession so Contentious in Early Seventeenth-Century Lindau?; J.C.Wolfart A Lubeck Prophet in Local and Lutheran Context; J.Beyer Blood, Tears and Xavier-Water: Jesuit Missionaries and Popular Religion in the Eighteenth-Century Upper Palatinate; T.Johnson.

About the Author

R. W. SCRIBNER was Professor of Modern European Christianity in the Divinity School at Harvard University, USA, until his death in 1998.