Walter Melion

Lee Palmer Wandel

Elizabeth Carson Pastan

An investigation into how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700.

Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700

Quid est sacramentum?

This 1995 book explores the acts of iconoclasm as the means to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the Reformation.

Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel

Voracious Idols and Violent Hands

This volume presents essays from eight scholars who trained with Robert Kingdon, a vanguard of early modern studies. He required students to go to primary sources, yet they were free to pursue their own curiosity. No matter what their approach to the sources, students were held to a high standard of thoroughness, precision, and attention to detail. This festschrift displays something of the diversity of language, source materials, methods, and visions that Kingdon encouraged in his students during his forty-year career in graduate education.

History Has Many Voices

Walter Simon Melion

Drawing on optic theory, ethnography, and the visual cultures of Christianity, this volume explores various discourses of vision in early modern Europe and the colonial Americas.

Early Modern Eyes

The first major study of the the Eucharist that divided Western Christendom in the sixteen century.

The Eucharist in the Reformation

These essays explore various inflections of the relation between image-making and incarnation doctrine. They illumine ways this fundamental mystery was construed as representable, and how it was seen to license the representation of other mysteries of faith.

Lee Palmer Wandel

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