The Reformation of Ritual
October 21, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/ The Reformation of Ritual: An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany by Sus Karant-Nunn In The Reformation…
Professor Susan Karant-Nun
Professor Susan Karant-Nun, research focuses on the social and cultural history of early modern Europe, with emphasis on the German-speaking lands during the Reformation. His interdisciplinary research on the religious history of early modern Europe (1400-1800) illuminates questions that remain urgent today. Beginning with late-medieval religious and social ferment and producing the sixteenth-century Protestant reformer Martin Luther, the Reformation sparked both local and international conflicts. Religious ferment led to wars and the emigration of thousands seeking to escape persecution. His work sheds light on the deeper, multiple causes and effects of efforts to define a true faith. As director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, I supervise graduate students interested in this period. Along with Oberman Professor Ute Lotz-Heumann, I teach the so-called “Division Seminar” that forms the backbone of the Division’s graduate program. Previous seminars under my direction have featured sixteenth-century Strasbourg, literacy in early modern Europe, Anabaptism, gender relations and the family, clergy and preaching in the Reformation era, and the emotions. His seminar during spring semester 2010 will study late medieval and early modern education. He also regularly teach courses designed for advanced undergraduates, such as surveys of the Reformation and the Renaissance. History 396, seminars for History majors, have concentrated on European women from 1100 to 1700, and on the European “witch craze” of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is currently writing a monograph on Martin Luther’s body. The Wittenberg Reformer left a quantity of autobiographic material distributed throughout his vast opus, even in the most abstruse theological treatises. I offer a critique of the current theory of Ego-Documents, which holds that intellectual treatises do not bear witness to the self of the author. In all his writings, Luther is enormously forthright, personal, and astonishingly concrete, often discussing his own body and using corporeal metaphors. I hope to have a book manuscript on this subject completed not later than 2015, for appearance during the Reformation Jubilee of 2017.
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