This book examines the dynamics of religious reform from the point of view of piety and devotional life between 1780 and 1920 in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Germany, and the Low Countries. The 'long' nineteenth century saw the introduction of devotional organizations as a mea…
The author offers the history of a new type of religious women in the 12th and 13th century, so called anchoresses, who took up authoritative positions in society, living as public recluses in cells attached to the sides of churches.
This book retraces the nature and role of credit in the pre-industrial European countryside. As part of an ongoing examination of credit and its provision in European past societies, the nine papers collected in this volume offer further insight into the ways in which credit wa…
