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Article: Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2007
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Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Will Coster and Andrew Spicer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii + 353 pp. $90.00 cloth.
Postrevisionist history has found a home in early modern studies, as editors Will Coster and Andrew Spicer exemplify with this collection of fourteen essays. Informed by broader developments in cultural history since the 1970s, revisionist Reformation and Counter-Reformation scholarship, Coster and Spicer explain, moved away from earlier institutional and theological histories to produce studies of local popular religion, which uncovered multiple, multifaceted Reformations but produced fragmented, limited studies. ...