Visions of Sodom: Religion and Sexuality since the Reformation
March 14, 2017
In September 1850, the French savant Louis-Felicien de Saulcy, charged with a Mission Scientifique from the French government, and in the company of a Catholic priest and four young men on a tour of the East, set out to circumnavigate and map the Dead Sea. Four months later, on his way round the shores of …
The Reformations in England: the Anglo-German Context
December 5, 2014
Historians used to talk about “the English Reformation,” treating it as a moment in time. After Henry VIII’s break with Rome was solidified with the Act of Supremacy in 1534, it used to be argued, England became gradually more Protestant, until by the reign of James I a Calvinist consensus existed, at least inside the …
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