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This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Scholarship about Worm has focused mainly on Worm's collecting and the creation of his cabinet of curiosity, the Museum Wormianum, resulting in Worm's rationale for his research being largely overlooked. Worm shared his many interests with a number of other physicians of the age, b...

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation of medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can t

This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen.

Focusing on the Calvinist communities who settled in Southern England during the 16th century, this book locates the Reformed churches within their religious context. It analyzes their relationship with the Church of England and examines the educational concerns of these communities.

Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies. High-level research has tended to be confined within specific geographical, confessional or chronological boundaries. By bringing together scholars working on a wide variety of topics, this volume aims to counteract this centrifugal trend and to provide a broad perspective on the impact of the European reformation. The essays present new research from historians of politic...

This is a systematic pan-European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to toleration in eighteenth-century Europe.

This groundbreaking book explores the migration of European Calvinist refugees and the strong network they forged through marriage and enterprise.

This is a systematic pan-European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to toleration in eighteenth-century Europe.

This groundbreaking book explores the migration of Calvinist refugees in Reformation Europe during a century of persecution, exile and minority existence. It traces the lives of some of the earliest Reformed merchant families as they forged the backbone of international Calvinism through a potent combination of marriage and enterprise.

The first study in English of church, state and society during the Scandinavian Reformation.

The sixteen chapters in this book, written by leading experts in this period's history, offer a new and dramatically different interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in the crucial period between 1500, when northern humanism had begun to make an impact, and 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War. They question the traditional view of a general progression toward greater religious toleration, and instead place religiou...

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