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Recent studiesofCatholicism include those that look at issues
verybroadly, such
asFrancisOakley,TheConciliaristTradition:ConstitutionalismintheCatholicChurch13001870
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2003) and Derek Beales,
Prosperity
andPlunder:EuropeanCatholicMonasteriesintheAgeofRevolution,16501815(NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2003).RobertBireley,TheJesuitsandtheThirtyYearsWar:Kings,
Courts, and Confessors (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2003) andDaniellaKostroun,Feminism,Absolutism,and
Jansenism:PortRoyalNuns (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,
2011) both analyze the interplay between religious
andpoliticalchange.JenniferD.Selwyn,AParadiseInhabitedbyDevils:TheJesuitsCivilizingMission
in Early Modern Naples (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), Christopher
Black andPamela Gravestock, eds., Early Modern Confraternities in
Europe and the
Americas(Aldershot:Ashgate,2005)andSusanE.Dinan,WomenandPoorReliefinSeventeenthcenturyFrance:TheEarlyHistoryoftheDaughtersofCharity(Aldershot:Ashgate,2006)alllookatCatholicgroupsthatsoughttoaddressurbanproblems.
GraemeMurdock,CalvinismontheFrontier:
InternationalCalvinismandtheReformedChurch inHungaryandTransylvania
(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2000),PhilipBenedict,TheFaithandFortunesofFrancesHuguenots,16001685Aldershot:Ashgate,2001),andChristineKooi,CalvinistsandCatholicsduringHollandsGoldenAge:Hereticsand
Idolators (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) examine
later
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inCalvinism. SerhilPlokhy, TheCossacksandReligion in
EarlyModernUkraine(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2004)isthefirststudytofocusspecificallyontheCossacks.
The Quakers have been the subject of much recent research,
including RosemaryMoore,The Light inTheirConsciences:EarlyQuakers
inBritain16461666
(UniversityPark:PennStateUniversityPress,2000);AdrianDavies,TheQuakers
inEnglishSociety16551725(NewYork:ClarendonPress,2000);GilSkidmore,ed.,StrengthinWeakness:WritingsofEighteenthcenturyQuakerWomen(London:RowmanandLittlefield,2003).
Thereisahugeliteratureonwitchcraft,whichcontinuestogroweveryyear.ThebestandnewestplacetostartonanytopicisthefourvolumeEncyclopediaofWitchcraft:TheWestern
Tradition, edited byRichardGolden (New York:ABCClio, 2006).A
newgeneralsurveyofthewitchhunts inallofEurope
isBengtAnkarloo,StuartClark,andWilliam Monter, Witchcraft and Magic
in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials(Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), part of a sixvolume
seriescoveringwitchcraftandmagic
inEuropefromBiblicalandpagansocietiesthroughthetwentieth century.
Wideranging collections of articles include: Bengt Ankarloo
andGustavHenningsen, eds., EarlyModern
EuropeanWitchcraft:CentersandPeripheries(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,1989);
JonathanBarry,MarianneHester,andGarethRoberts, eds., Witchcraft in
Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996); Stuart Clark, ed., Languages
ofWitchcraft:Narrative,IdeologyandMeaninginEarlyModernCulture(London:PalgraveMacmillan,2000).
Recentworkonwitchcrafthas stressed the fact
thatpatternsofpersecutiondifferedwidelyindifferentareasofEurope,andmanyofthebeststudiesarethosethatfocusonaspecificcity,country,orregion.See:ChristinaLarner,EnemiesofGod:TheWitchHuntinScotland
(Baltimore:
JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,1981);RuthMartin,Witchcraftand the
Inquisition in Venice 15501650 (London: Blackwell,
1989);DavidGentilcore,From Bishop to Witch: The System of the
Sacred in Early Modern Terra dOtrantoCambridgeUniversityPress2013
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Manchester University Press, 1992); James Sharpe, Instruments
ofDarkness:Witchcraft
inEarlyModernEngland(Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,1997);P.G.MaxwellStuart,AnAbundanceofWitches:TheGreatScottishWitchhunt(London:Tempus,2005).
Theneweststudiesoftentiewitchcrafttootherintellectualandculturalissues.Theseinclude:GaryK.Waite,Heresy,MagicandWitchcraft
inEarlyModernEurope(London:Palgrave,2003);MichaelD.Bailey,BattlingDemons:Witchcraft,Heresy,andReform
intheLateMiddleAges
(UniversityPark,PA:PennsylvaniaStateUniversityPress,2003);Hans
Peter Broedel, The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of
Witchcraft:TheologyandPopularBelief
(Manchester:ManchesterUniversityPress,2004).CharlesZika,
TheAppearance ofWitchcraft (London: Routledge, 2005) examines
theways inwhich visual representations of witchcraft contributed to
spread of witchhunts. IanBostridge,Witchcraftand
itsTransformations,c.1650c.1750(Oxford:ClarendonPress,1997)
explores the slow decline ofwitchcraft beliefs, paying special
attention to thewriters andofficialswho tried toprop
themup.DianePurkiss, TheWitch inHistory:Early Modern and
TwentiethCentury Representations (London: Routledge, 1996)provides
a thorough and often witty analysis of contemporary representations
ofwitchesand
theacademicstudyofwitchcraft,asdoesLyndalRoper,TheWitch in
theWesternImagination(Charlottesville:UniversityofVirginiaPress,2012).
On
issuessurroundingpossession,seeSarahFerber,DemonicPossessionandExorcismin
Early Modern France (London: Routledge, 2004) and Philip C. Almond,
DemonicPossession and Exorcism in EarlyModern England (Cambridge:
Cambridge UniversityPress,2005).
MuchrecentresearchonJudaismhasfocusedonJewishrelationswiththesurroundingChristian
community.SeeElishevaCarlebach,DividedSouls:Converts from Judaism
inGermany15001750
(NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,2001);KennethStow,Theaterof
Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century (Seattle:
University
ofWashingtonPress,2001);R.PoChiaHsia,ed.,InandOutoftheGhetto:JewishGentileCambridgeUniversityPress2013
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RelationsinLateMedievalandEarlyModernGermany(Washington,DC:Publicationsofthe
German Historical Institute, 2002); Adam Sutcliffe, Judaism and
Enlightenment(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2005);MagdaTeter,SinnersonTrial:JewsandSacrilege
after the Reformation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
2012);JonathanRay,AfterExpulsion:1492andtheMakingofSephardicJewry(NewYork:NYUPress,2012);ElishevaCarlebach,PalacesofTime:JewishCalendarandCulture
inEarlyModernEurope(Cambridge,Mass.:HarvardUniversityPress,2012).
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