What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night in early modern religion[...]
The Protestant Reformation was a cultural revolution whose effects were deep and enduring. In the upheaval of the Reformation theologians repudiated the scholasticism they had spent years mastering; sons and daughters cut off payments for intercession for their deceased parents' souls, and citizens [...]