Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World

Series Editors: Fernando Cervantes, Peter Marshall and Philip Soergel

Few serious scholars now doubt the central importance of religious attitudes, beliefs and values for the ways early modern people organized their social, political and cultural lives. Recently, a traditional preoccupation with ‘ecclesiastical history’ has given way to a more integrated approach to the belief systems, Christian and non-Christian, that structured the early modern world. This series is a showcase for writing on all aspects of the social, cultural and political history of religion in the early modern period. Its remit stretches from the early fifteenth to the later eighteenth centuries, and encompasses both European and non-European societies.

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We invite submissions from established scholars and first-time authors alike. Prospective authors should send a detailed proposal with a rationale, chapter outlines and at least two sample chapters alongside a brief author's biography and an anticipated submission date.

Proposals should be sent to one of the series editors: Dr Fernando Cervantes, Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, 13 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB, UK (f.cervantes@bristol.ac.uk); Prof. Peter Marshall, Department of History, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK (p.marshall@warwick.ac.uk); Prof. Philip Soergel, Department of History, University of Maryland, 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall, College Park, MD 20742-7315, USA (psoergel@umd.edu).

For detailed information on submitting a proposal, including an example of a successful submission, please click here.

Readership

The series will have a wide appeal to scholars working in many areas of History, as well as in the related disciples of Art History, Literature, Theology and Religious Studies. While the volumes will be scholarly works of primary research, they should be accessible to able undergraduates as well as postgraduate researchers and academics.

Editorial board

Dr Fernando Cervantes is Reader in History at the University of Bristol. His main research interests focus on the religious, cultural and intellectual history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. He is the author of The Devil in the New World: the Impact of Diabolism in New Spain (1994) and co-editor of Spiritual Encounters: Interactions between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial America (1999). Between 2005 and 2008 he was principal investigator of a major Leverhulme Research Project entitled 'The Celestial and the Fallen: Angels and Demons in the Hispanic World'.

Professor Peter Marshall is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published extensively on the religious and cultural history of early modern England, and his books include The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation (1994), Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England (2002), and Religious Identities in Henry VIII’s England (2006).

Professor Philip Soergel is Associate professor of Early Modern History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published widely on the religious and cultural history of early modern Germany. His books include Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda in Bavaria (1993) and Miracles and the Protestant Imagination (2012).

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