Title Religious reading in the Lutheran north : studies in early modern Scandinavian book culture / edited by Charlotte Appel and Morten Fink-Jensen

Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages) Contents Books, literacy, and religious reading in the Lutheran north / Charlotte Appel and Morten Fink-Jensen -- Printing and preaching after the Reformation : a Danish pastor and his audiences / Morten Fink-Jensen -- Earways to heaven : singing the catechism in Denmark-Norway, 1569-1756 / Jon Haarberg -- Printed in books, imprinted on minds : catechisms and religious reading in Denmark during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Charlotte Appel -- Much more than Luther : religious reading among the Norwegian clergy, 1650-1800 / Gina Dahl -- "A threat to civic coexistence" : forbidden religious literature and censorship in eighteenth-century Sweden / Ann Öhrberg -- Genesis in the longhouse : religious reading in Greenland in the eighteenth century / Thorkild Kjærgaard -- Memory and meaning : the Haugean revival (1796-1804) and its place in the history of reading / Trygve Riiser Gundersen -- Popular education and religious reading in early nineteenth-century Sweden / Daniel Lindmark Summary Religious Reading in the Lutheran North opens up the doors to a part of early modern European history that has often been overlooked. In the Nordic countries, an abundance of religious literature in the vernacular was produced in the centuries following the Reformation, and reading was almost exclusively taught to children in a Lutheran Protestant setting. Literacy rates were high, and by the mid eighteenth century around ninety per cent of both men and women could read. The eight contributio .. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-230) Notes Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed March 15, 2013) Subject Books and reading -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Books and reading -- Scandinavia -- History Religious literature -- History and criticism Scandinavian prose literature -- History and criticism Publishers and publishing -- Scandinavia -- History Reformation -- Scandinavia Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700. Social & cultural history. History of religion. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Books and reading Books and reading -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Publishers and publishing Reformation Religious literature Scandinavian prose literature Scandinavia Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Appel, Charlotte, 1960- Fink-Jensen, Morten, 1969- ISBN 9781443827676 1443827673 144382643X 9781443826433 128314221X 9781283142212

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