Professor Andrew Spicer
Professor Emeritus of Early Modern European History
School of Education, Humanities and Languages
Role
Andrew Spicer joined Oxford Brookes University in 2003 from the University of Exeter.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, serving as Literary Director (2016–21); the Society of Antiquaries; Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. From 2020–22, he was President of the Sixteenth Century Society.
Research
Andrew's research focuses on:
- the socio-cultural impact of the Reformation, principally, church architecture
- death and burial
- iconoclasm and confessional violence
- the material culture of worship
- sacred space.
This research encompasses France, the Low Countries and Scotland. Building on his doctoral research, he continues to publish on early modern migration and immigrant communities in England.
Publications
Journal articles
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Spicer A, 'Anglican Rites of Consecration and the Delineation of Sacred Space, c. 1689–1735'
Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 90 (2) (2021) pp.324-347
ISSN: 0009-6407 eISSN: 1755-2613AbstractPublished here Open Access on RADARBetween 1712 and 1715, the Convocation of the Church of England attempted to replace the existing informal orders used for the consecration of churches, chapels and churchyards with a single uniform rite. While these efforts have been associated with the erection of the Fifty New Churches to provide for the populous and expanding suburbs of London and Westminster, the discussions actually arose out of the political divisions between the bishops and the lower house of convocation. The efforts to establish an official order of consecration was also a response to the changed ecclesiastical climate that followed the Toleration Act of 1689, which allowed for the registration of Dissenter chapels. The Established Church found its religious hegemony threatened and the particular status of their places of worship, achieved through consecration, challenged. The Church responded to the criticism of their existing forms of consecration by reforming the liturgy as well as demonstrating the historical and legal basis for the practice. The sermons preached at the consecration or reopening of these churches provided a further opportunity for the clergy to justify the ceremony as well as to draw comparisons between these churches and Dissenting meeting-houses.
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Spicer A, 'Adiaphora, Martin Luther and the Material Culture of Worship'
Studies in Church History 56 (2020) pp.246-272
ISSN: 0424-2084 eISSN: 2059-0644AbstractPublished here Open Access on RADARThe celebration of the late medieval mass and other religious ceremonies was carefully delineated through the ecclesiastical regulations of the Catholic Church. This legalistic approach to worship was strongly criticized by both Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther before 1517. With the subsequent Reformation, Luther reacted against Catholic legalism which, he argued, ensnared the faithful and threatened Christian freedom. He was therefore particularly reluctant to specify what he considered to be the appropriate form, place and setting for his German mass. Luther utilized the concept of adiaphora to argue that such issues were matters of indifference as they were not fundamental for salvation. However, this stance was tempered by his realization that such Christian freedom actually did require direction to ensure that the Reformation message was not confused or lost.
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Spicer A, 'Religious Representation in Comenius's Orbis sensualium pictus (1658)'
Reformation & Renaissance Review 21 (1) (2019) pp.64-88
ISSN: 1462-2459 eISSN: 1743-1727AbstractPublished here Open Access on RADARThe Orbis sensualium pictus, first published in 1658, was an important element in the pedagogical programme of the Czech Reformer, Jan Amos Komensky [Comenius]. Through the use of illustrations with an associated key, it was intended to educate young children about the names and terms of items and activities that they saw in the world around them. Although the significance of the work has long been recognised and has been studied in the wider context of Comenius’ philosophical ideas, comparatively little attention has been paid to the illustrations in this work. The intention of this article is to examine the portrayal of religious faiths in the Orbis sensualium pictus as well as to demonstrate that, in spite of Comenius’ rejection of confessional differences, they depict Christian worship and religious practice from a largely Lutheran perspective.
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Spicer A, 'Iconoclasm'
Renaissance Quarterly 70 (3) (2017) pp.1007-1022
ISSN: 0034-4338 eISSN: 1935-0236AbstractPublished here Open Access on RADARdoi: https://doi.org/10.1086/693887
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Spicer A, 'L’Entretien d’un catholique et d’un calviniste (1684). Les Huguenots et reliques dans l’Orléans moderne'
Revue d’histoire du protestantisme 1-3 (2016)
ISSN: 2297-6167Published here -
Spicer A, 'The 'Livre du Clerc' of the French Church in Southampton, 1853–1939'
Huguenot Society Journal 30 (2) (2014) pp.37-43
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Spicer A, 'After Iconoclasm: Reconciliation and Resacralization in the Southern Netherlands, ca. 1566-85'
The Sixteenth Century Journal 44 (2013) pp.411-433
ISSN: 0361-0160 eISSN: 2326-0726AbstractThis article considers the institutional response to the Iconoclastic Fury and the iconoclasm of the early 1580s in the southern provinces of the Netherlands. Although the restoration of Catholicism is more often associated with the early seventeenth century, this article demonstrates that the reconstruction of churches and reestablishment of worship took place a generation earlier in the immediate aftermath of the religious violence. Furthermore this restoration was a priority for the government in the Netherlands, in particular for Margaret of Parma and her son Alexander Farnese, as they sought to regain control of the region and assert the authority of the crown. In particular, they encouraged the use of the ecclesiastical rites of consecration and reconciliation to symbolize the cleansing and purification of the religious landscape after the profane actions of the iconoclasts and adherents of the Reformed faith.
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Spicer A, 'Consecration and Violation: Preserving the Sacred Landscape in the (Arch)diocese of Cambrai, c. 1550-1570'
Intersections 22 (2012) pp.253-274
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Spicer A, 'Holiness and the Temple: Thomas Adams and the Definition of Sacred Space in Jacobean England'
The Seventeenth Century 27 (1) (2012) pp.1-24
ISSN: 0268-117XAbstractThomas Adams's sermon The Temple has generally been viewed by historians and literary scholars as part of the anti-Catholic polemic that was preached at the time of the Spanish match. This, however, only gives a partial view of the sermon that was preached in August 1624, which also used the Biblical Temple of Jerusalem as a means through which to explore contemporary perceptions and understandings of the sanctity and holiness of places of worship. This article therefore examines this sermon against the background of these debates and the emergence of a Protestant rite of consecration.Published here -
Spicer A, ''Le Quatriesme Ordre' : the Diaconate in the French-Walloon Churches of London and Sandwich, c. 1568-1573'
Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London 29 (1) (2008) pp.1-13
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Spicer A, 'The Consistory Records of Reformed Congregations and the Exile Churches'
Proceedings- Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland 28 (5) (2008) pp.640-663
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Spicer A, '(Re)building the sacred landscape: Orleans, 1560 1610'
French History 21 (3) (2007) pp.247-268
ISSN: 0269-1191 eISSN: 1477-4542Published here -
Spicer A, 'Accomodating of Thalme Seflis to Heir the Worde: Preaching, Pews and Reformed Worship in Scotland, 1560-1638'
History 88 (2004) pp.405-422
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Spicer A, 'Laudianism in Scotland? St-giles-cathedral, Edinburgh, 1633-39 - a Reappraisal'
Architectural History 46 (2004) pp.95-108
ISSN: 0066-622X eISSN: 2059-5670Published here
Books
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Knight, F, Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.), The Churches and Rites of Passage, Cambridge University Press (2023)
ISSN: 0424-2084 eISSN: 2059-0644 ISBN: 9781009421744Published here -
Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.), The Church in Sickness and in Health, Cambridge University Press (2022)
eISSN: 2059-0644 ISBN: 9781009284806Published here -
Methuen C, Ryrie, A, Spicer A, (ed.), Inspiration and Institution in Christian History, Cambridge University Press (2021)
ISBN: 9781316514801Published here -
McKitterick R, Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.), The Church and the Law, Cambridge University Press (2020)
ISBN: 9781108839631AbstractPublished here"The volume comprises a selection of peer reviewed articles drawn from the range of communications presented at the Ecclesiastical History Society's Summer Conference at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in July 2018 and its Winter Meeting at the Institute for Historical Research, London in January 2019."--Preface, page ix.
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Morwenna Ludlow
Charlotte Methuen
Andrew Spicer, (ed.), Churches and Education, Cambridge University Press (2019)
ISBN: 9781108487085AbstractPublished hereThis volume brings together the work of a wide range of scholars to explore the long and complex history of the relationships between churches and education. Christianity has always been involved in education, from the very earliest teaching of those about to be baptised, to present-day churches' involvement in schools and higher education. Christianity has a core theological concern for teaching, discipleship and formation, but the dissemination of Christian ideas and positions has not necessarily been an explicitly didactic process. Educational projects have served not only to support but also to question and even reconfigure particular versions of the Christian message, and the recipients of education have also both received and subverted the teaching offered. Under the editorship of Morwenna Ludlow, this volume explores the ways in which churches have sought to educate, catechise and instruct the clergy and laity, adults and children, men and women, boys and girls.
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Brown SJ, Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.), The Church and Empire, Cambridge University Press (2018)
eISSN: 2059-0644 ISBN: 9781108473798AbstractPublished here'The Church and Empire', the theme of Studies in Church History, 54, reflects the reality that from its beginnings, the Christian Church has had close, often symbiotic, relationships with empires and imperial power. Initially the Church engaged with the Roman Empire, subsequently in Europe with the Carolingian, Anglo-Norman, Genoese, Venetian and Holy Roman Empires, and later - through the Church's global expansion with European empires in the Americas, Africa and Asia - the Spanish, Dutch, French and British empires, and the imperial structures it encountered there. Bringing together the work of twenty-four historians, this volume explores the relations of churches and empires, and Christian conceptions of empire, in the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern periods, as well as the role of empire in the global expansion of Christianity.
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Ditchfield S, Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.), Translating Christianity, Cambridge University Press (2017)
ISBN: 9781108419246AbstractPublished here -
Stevens Crawshaw J, Spicer A, (ed.), The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750, Routledge (2016)
ISBN: 9781138790728Published here -
Andrews F, Methuen C, Spicer A, (ed.), Doubting Christianity: The Church and Doubt, Cambridge University Press (2016)
ISBN: 9781107180734AbstractPublished hereThe fifty-second volume of Studies in Church History explores the myriad ways in which doubt has tested Christianity and the life of individual Christians. Men and women have always had doubts about ideas, or individual doctrines, if not faith itself; they have also doubted how truth can be authenticated. The means and the implications of expressing either kind of doubt are shaped by historical circumstance. Led by scholars including Kirstie Blair, Janet Nelson, Charles Stang and Rowan Williams, the essays explore doubt from the Early Church to the contemporary world. They investigate a range of questions, from the familiar 'doubting Thomas', and the more surprising 'doubting John', through the pressing concerns of the Middle Ages, the emphasis on rationalism of the Enlightenment, to the competing ideological and confessional perspectives of the modern world. This fascinating collection offers an introduction to the complex relationship between doubt, faith and the Christian Churches.
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Spicer A, (ed.), Parish Churches in the Early Modern World, Ashgate (2016)
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Methuen C, Spicer A, Woolfe J, (ed.), Christianity and Religious Plurality, Boydell and Brewer (2015)
eISSN: 1361-7672 ISBN: 9780954681036Published here -
Graeme Murdock
Penny Roberts
Andrew Spicer, (ed.), Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France, Oxford University Press (2012)
ISBN: 0199654963AbstractPublished hereThis collection of essays, edited by Graeme Murdock, Penny Roberts, and Andrew Spicer, developed from a one-day conference 'Religion and Violence in Early Modern France: The Work of Natalie Zemon Davis' which was held in June 2008 at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. Five of the papers published here were initially delivered on that occasion, but the conference also sought to learn from the differing perspectives of violence outside sixteenth-century France. This concern is also reflected in this collection, which seeks to offer new insights and approaches to the relationship and significance of religion and violence as well as paying tribute to the immense contribution made in this field by the writings of Natalie Zemon Davis.
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Spicer A, (ed.), Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe, Ashgate (2012)
ISBN: 9780754665830 eISBN: 9781315250144AbstractPublished hereUntil recently the impact of the Lutheran Reformation has been largely regarded in political and socio-economic terms, yet for most people it was not the abstract theological debates that had the greatest impact upon their lives, but what they saw in their parish churches every Sunday. This collection of essays provides a coherent and interdisciplinary investigation of the impact that the Lutheran Reformation had on the appearance, architecture and arrangement of early modern churches. Drawing upon recent research being undertaken by leading art historians and historians on Lutheran places of worship, the volume emphasises often surprising levels of continuity, reflecting the survival of Catholic fixtures, fittings and altarpieces, and exploring how these could be remodelled in order to conform with the tenets of Lutheran belief. The volume not only addresses Lutheran art but also the way in which the architecture of their churches reflected the importance of preaching and the administration of the sacraments. Furthermore the collection is committed to extending these discussions beyond a purely German context, and to look at churches not only within the Holy Roman Empire, but also in Scandinavia, the Baltic States as well as towns dominated by Saxon communities in areas such as in Hungary and Transylvania. By focusing on ecclesiastical 'material culture' the collection helps to place the art and architecture of Lutheran places of worship into the historical, political and theological context of early modern Europe.
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Author: Duke A, Edited by: Pollmann J, Spicer A, (ed.), Dissident identities in the early modern Low Countries, Ashgate (2009)
ISBN: 9780754656791AbstractPublished hereAlastair Duke has long been recognized as one of the leading scholars of the early modern Netherlands, known internationally for his important work on the impact of religious change on political events which was the focus of his Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990). Bringing together an updated selection of his previously published essays - together with one entirely new chapter and two that appear in English here for the first time - this volume explores the emergence of new political and religious identities in the early modern Netherlands. Firstly it analyses the emergence of a common identity amongst the amorphous collection of states in north-western Europe that were united first under the rule of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy and later the Habsburg princes, and traces the fortunes of this notion during the political and religious conflicts that divided the Low Countries during the second half of the sixteenth century. A second group of essays considers the emergence of dissidence and opposition to the regime, and explores how this was expressed and disseminated through popular culture. Finally, the volume shows how in the age of confessionalisation and civil war, challenging issues of identity presented themselves to both dissenting groups and individuals. Taken together these essays demonstrate how these dissident identities shaped and contributed to the development of the Netherlands during the early modern period.
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Duke A, Pollman J, Spicer A , Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries , Ashgate (2009)
ISBN: 9780754656791Abstract# Alastair Duke has long been recognized as one of the leading scholars of the early modern Netherlands, known internationally for his important work on the impact of religious change on political events which was the focus of his Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990). This new volume explores the emergence of new political and religious identities in the early modern Netherlands. Firstly it analyses the emergence of a common identity amongst the amorphous collection of states in north-western Europe that were united first under the rule of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy and later the Habsburg princes, and traces the fortunes of this notion during the political and religious conflicts that divided the Low Countries during the second half of the sixteenth century. A second group of essays considers the emergence of dissidence and opposition to the regime, and explores how this was expressed and disseminated through popular culture. Finally, the volume shows how in the age of confessionalisation and civil war, challenging issues of identity presented themselves to both dissenting groups and individuals. Taken together these essays demonstrate how these dissident identities shaped and contributed to the development of the Netherlands during the early modern period. # Contents: By way of introduction; The elusive Netherlands: the question of national identity in the early modern Low Countries on the eve of the Revolt; In defence of the common fatherland: patriotism and liberty in the Low countries, 1555-1576; Moulded by repression: the early Netherlands Reformation, 1520-55; The 'inquisition' and the repression of religious dissent in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1521-1566; A legend in the making: news of the 'Spanish Inquisition' in the Low Countries in German evangelical pamphlets, 1546-1550; Dissident propaganda and political organisation at the outbreak of the Revolt of the Netherlands; Posters, pamphlets and prints: the ways and means of disseminating dissident opinions on the eve of the Dutch Revolt; Calvinists and 'papist idolatry': the mentality of the image-breakers in 1566; Martyrs with a difference: Dutch Anabaptist victims of Elizabethan persecution; The search for religious identity in a confessional age: the conversions of Jean Haren (c.1545-c.1613); Calvinist loyalism. Jean Haren, Chimay and the demise of the Calvinist republic of Bruges; Bibliography; Index. -
Andrew Spicer, Calvinist Churches in Early Modern Europe, Manchester University Press (2007)
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Judith Pollmann
Andrew Spicer, (ed.), Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands, Brill (2006)
ISBN: 9789047411604AbstractPublished hereWas there such a thing as 'public opinion' before the age of newspapers and party politics? The essays in this collection show that in the Low Countries, at least, there certainly was. In this highly urbanised society, with high literacy rates and good connections, news and public debate could spread fast in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, enabling the growth of powerful opposition movements against the Crown, the creation of the Dutch Republic, and of the distinctive Netherlandish culture of the Golden Age.
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Will Coster
Andrew Spicer, (ed.), Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press (2005)
ISBN: 9780521824873AbstractPublished hereThe medieval landscape was marked by many sacred sites - churches and chapels, pilgrimage sites, holy wells - places where the spiritual and temporal worlds coincided. Although Max Weber argued that the Reformation brought about the 'disenchantment of the world', this 2005 volume explores the many dimensions of sacred space during and after the religious upheavals of the early modern period. The essays examine the subject through a variety of contexts across Europe from Scotland to Moldavia, but also across the religious divisions between the Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran and Calvinist Churches. Based on research, these essays provide insights into the definition and understanding of sanctity in the post-Reformation era and make an important contribution to the study of sacred space.
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Andrew Spicer
Sarah Hamilton, (ed.), Defining the Holy. Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Ashgate (2005)
ISBN: 0754651940AbstractPublished hereHoly sites, both public - churches, monasteries, shrines - and more private - domestic chapels, oratories - populated the landscape of medieval and early modern Europe, providing contemporaries with access to the divine. These sacred spaces thus defined religious experience, and were fundamental to both the geography and social history of Europe over the course of 1,000 years. But how were these sacred spaces, both public and private, defined? How were they created, used, recognised and transformed? And to what extent did these definitions change over the course of time, and in particular as a result of the changes wrought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Taking a strongly interdisciplinary approach, this volume tackles these questions from the point of view of archaeology, architectural and art history, liturgy, and history to consider the fundamental interaction between the sacred and the profane. Exploring the establishment of sacred space within both the public and domestic spheres, as well as the role of the secular within the sacred sphere, each chapter provides fascinating insights into how these concepts helped shape, and were shaped by, wider society. By highlighting these issues on a European basis from the medieval period through the age of the reformations, these essays demonstrate the significance of continuity as much as change in definitions of sacred space, and thus identify long term trends which have hitherto been absent in more limited studies. As such this volume provides essential reading for anyone with an interest in the ecclesiastical development of western Europe from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
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Raymond A. Mentzer
Andrew Spicer, (ed.), Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685, Cambridge University Press (2002)
ISBN: 0521773245AbstractPublished hereThe Huguenots formed a privileged minority within early modern France. During the second half of the sixteenth century, they fought for freedom of worship in the French 'wars of religion' which culminated in the Edict of Nantes in 1598. The community was protected by the terms of the Edict for eighty-seven years until Louis XIV revoked it in 1685. The Huguenots therefore constitute a minority group tolerated by one of the strongest nations in early modern Europe, a country more often associated with the absolute power of the crown - in particular that of Louis XIV. This collection of essays explores the character and identity of the Huguenot movement by examining their culture and institutions, their patterns of belief and worship and their interaction with French state and society. The volume draws upon research by leading historians and specialists from across Europe and North America.
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Andrew Spicer, The French-speaking Reformed Community and their Church in Southampton, 1567-c. 1620, Huguenot Society / Southampton Record Series (1997)
ISBN: 0854326472
Book chapters
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Spicer A, 'Inscriptions, Text and the Material Culture of Worship in the Southern Netherlands, c.1566–1621' in French, Anna (ed.), Reading the Reformations, Brill (2023)
ISBN: 9789004521230 eISBN: 9789004521247AbstractPublished hereIn 1911, Roger Rodière delivered a lecture entitled ‘L’Épigraphie pratique’, in which he argued that as archaeology became increasingly scientific in its approach, there remained a more arcane branch of the discipline. The reading and recording carved inscriptions, whether formal statements or graffiti, provided important archaeological evidence of the past. Through these inscriptions, it was possible to read the history of the people. An architectural historian, Rodière used these carvings to document churches across the Pas-de-Calais, many of which were subsequently destroyed in the bombardments of World War I.
Rodière was one of the principal contributors to the eight volume Épigraphie du département du Pas-de-Calais published between 1883 and 1937 by the Commission départementale des Monuments historiques. Although these substantial volumes have been important for the architectural history of the region, there has been little attempt to use this material in other ways. This chapter demonstrates how inscriptions can be read to provide insights into attitudes and beliefs during the early modern period. Through focusing on inscriptions recorded in churches, the essay explores patronage and the material culture of worship during a period of ecclesiastical change and reform. This chapter demonstrates the value of reading inscriptions alongside the archival record and published material of the early modern period.
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Spicer A, 'Iconoclasm in Mid-Sixteenth Century France' in Richard A. Etlin (ed.), The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity, Cambridge University Press (2022)
ISBN: 9781108471510Published here -
Spicer A, 'The Scottish Reformation and Church Architecture, 1560–ca.1638' in William Ian P. Hazlett (ed.), A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, ca. 1525–1638, Brill (2022)
ISBN: 9789004329720AbstractPublished hereAt the Reformation, the Reformed Church of Scotland took possession of the existing Catholic parish churches. These buildings were purged of the liturgical fittings associated with the celebration of the Mass and were reconfigured for the preaching of the Word of God and the Reformed administration of the sacraments. Initially some communities struggled to accommodate the entire congregation for services while others were obliged to gather at inconvenient locations associated with the Catholic past. Gradually the Kirk began to erect new churches which accorded more closely with their liturgical needs; it also experimented with new architectural forms, most notably at Burntisland. This chapter reflects on the transition from Catholic churches erected for the celebration of the Mass to kirks intended for hearing the Word of God.
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Andrew Spicer, 'Bells, Confessional Conflict and the Dutch Revolt, c. 1566s-1585' in Colin, Marie-Alexis
Fenlon, Iain
Laube, Matthew (ed.), Theatres of Belief. Music and Conversion in the Early Modern City, Brepols (2021)
ISBN: 9782503598871 eISBN: 9782503598888Published here -
Spicer, Andrew, 'Liturgical Space in the German and Scottish Reformations' in Dorothea Wendebourg, Euan Cameron and Martin Ohst (ed.), Sister Reformations III = Schwesterreformationen III From Reformation Movements to Reformation Churches in the Holy Roman Empire and on the British Isles-Von der reformatorischen Bewegung zur Kirche im Heiligen Römischen Reich und auf den britischen Inseln, Mohr Siebeck (2019)
ISBN: 9783161589324Published here Open Access on RADAR -
Spicer A, 'The Huguenots and Marks of Honor and Distinction in the Parish Church and Reformed Temple' in Karen E. Spierling, Erik A. de Boer, R. Ward Holder (ed.), Emancipating Calvin. Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities, Brill (2018)
ISBN: 9789004363410Published here -
Andrew Spicer, 'The Material Culture of the Lord’s Supper: Adiaphora, Beakers, and Communion Plate in the Dutch Republic' in Barbara Pitkin (ed.), Semper Reformanda: John Calvin, Worship, and Reformed Traditions, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2018)
ISBN: 9783525552735 eISBN: 9783666552731Published here -
Andrew Spicer, 'Afterword' in Gabriella Scarlatta and Lidia Radi (ed.), Representing Heresy in Early Modern France, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (2017)
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Andrew Spicer, 'Epilogue. Jamme Masjid mosque and Layered Landscapes' in Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright (ed.), Layered Landscapes: Early Modern Religious Space across Faiths and Cultures, Routledge (2017)
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Spicer A, 'Aliens, Native Englishmen and Migration: William Herbert’s 'Considerations in the behalf of Foreiners' (1662)' in Andrew Spicer and Jane Stevens Crawshaw (ed.), The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750, Routledge (2016)
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Spicer A, 'The Material Culture of Early Modern Churches' in David Gaimster, Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe, Routledge (2016)
ISBN: 9781409462699Published here -
O’Halloran L, Spicer A, 'Catholic Burial and Commemoration in Early Seventeenth Century Lancashire' in Elizabeth Tingle and Jonathan Willis (ed.), Dying, Death and Burial in Reformation Europe, Ashgate (2016)
ISBN: 9781472430144AbstractPublished hereThe burial ground created by William Blundell at the Harkirk on his Lancashire estate in 1611 was one of the few established after the English Reformation for the interment of Catholics. As he makes clear in his succinct account, Blundell established the graveyard due to the exceptional persecution of the time that had seen his co-religionists refused burial in the parish churchyard. The circumstances were very different from the almost contemporaneous churchyards associated with the chapels royal of Queen Henrietta Maria, which were ‘appointed to inter and bury such of her ladyship’s followers as shall chance to depart this life, according to the manner and form of the Church of Rome’.2 Although similarly enclosed to protect the sanctity of a place of burial, the Harkirk lacked official approval and the protection of the authorities. It operated for almost two decades until it was laid waste by the sheriff of Lancashire and his men in the early1630s, after Blundell had been found guilty in the court of Star Chamber of ‘suffering a buriall place in my Demaine’. Following the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, the Harkirk came to be used again for burials, which continued into the eighteenth century, but during this later period it was almost exclusively priests who were interred there. The Harkirk provides a useful case study of how a confessional minority sought to maintain and uphold the religious propriety and practices that surrounded death and burial, in spite of the challenges posed by the Reformation and the established Church in England.
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Spicer A, 'The Huguenots and Art, c. 1560-1685' in Mentzer R, van Ruymbeke B (ed.), A Companion to the Huguenots, Brill (2016)
ISBN: 978-90-04-31035-3 eISBN: 978-90-04-31037-7AbstractThe Huguenots are among the best known of early modern European religious minorities. Their suffering in 16th and 17th-century France is a familiar story. The flight of many Huguenots from the kingdom after 1685 conferred upon them a preeminent place in the accounts of forced religious migrations. Their history has become synonymous with repression and intolerance. At the same time, Huguenot accomplishments in France and the lands to which they fled have long been celebrated. They are distinguished by their theological formulations, political thought, and artistic achievements. This volume offers an encompassing portrait of the Huguenot past, investigates the principal lines of historical development, and suggests the interpretative frameworks that scholars have advanced for appreciating the Huguenot experience.Published here -
Andrew Spicer, 'Martin Luther and the Material Culture of Worship' in Martin Luther and the Reformation / Treasures of the Reformation, Sandstein Verlag (2016)
ISBN: 9783954982233Published here -
Spicer A, 'Dutch Churches in Asia' in Andrew Spicer (ed.), Parish Churches in the Early Modern World, Ashgate (2015)
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Spicer A, 'Parish Churches in the Swiss Romande' in Andrew Spicer (ed.), Parish Churches in the Early Modern World, Ashgate (2015)
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Spicer A, 'The Early Modern Parish Church: An Introduction' in Andrew Spicer (ed.), Parish Churches in the Early Modern World, Ashgate (2015)
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Spicer A, 'Lady Anne Clifford and her Church Building' in Donovan C (ed.), A Fresh Approach. Essays Presented to Colin Platt in Celebration of his Eightieth Birthday 11 November 2014 by some of his former students, Trouser Press Publishing (2014)
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Spicer A, '1885: French Protestantism and Huguenot Identity in Victorian Britain' in Benedict P, Daussy H, Léchot P (ed.), L'Identité huguenote: Faire mémoire et écrire l'histoire (XVIe-XXIe siècle), Librairie Droz (2014)
ISBN: 978-2-600-01752-7 eISBN: 978-2-600-11752-4Published here -
Spicer A, 'Iconoclasm on the Frontier: Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 1566' in Marina Prusac and Kristine Kolrud (ed.), Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity, Ashgate (2014)
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Spicer A, ''Hic coeli porta est, hic domus ecce dei': Lutheran churches in the Dutch World, c.1566-1719' in Lutheran churches in early modern Europe, Ashgate Publishing (2012)
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Spicer, Andrew, '“Of no church”. Immigrants, liefhebbers and Confessional Diversity in Elizabethan London, c. 1568–1581' in Isabel Karremann
Cornel Zwierlein
Inga Mai Groote (ed.), Forgetting Faith? Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe, De Gruyter (2012)
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Spicer, A, 'Disjoynet, Dismemberit and Disuneited: Church-building and Re-drawing Parish Boundaries in Post-Reformation Scotland: A Case Study of Bassendean, Berwickshire' in The Archaeology of Post-medieval Religion, Boydell & Brewer (2011)
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Spicer A, '"God Hath put such secrets in nature": The Reformed Kirk, Church Building and Re-drawing Parish Boundaries in Post-Reformation Scotland' in God's Bounty? The Churches & the Natural World, Ecclesiastical History Society (2010)
ISBN: 9780954680961AbstractThe tension between faith and reason has marked Christian approaches to nature, and theologians since Augustine have sought to resolve this. In the wake of the Scientific Revolution the challenges to religious explanations of the world increased dramatically, notably with the emergence of Darwin's theory of evolution. Science has often put Christianity on the defensive but also provoked theological reflection, especially on human stewardship of nature as man's impact on the environment has become more apparent. Christianity has long sought to learn from nature as a 'book', full of examples to illustrate religious teaching and signs of divine and saintly interventions in human history. Some Christians have even tried to live in harmony with nature in utopian communities. This volume bears witness to lively scholarly debate on these and other aspects of its theme, and covers a wide chronological, geographical and thematic range stretching from missionary encounters with the New Worlds of Australia and Latin America to popular and learned responses towards nature in early modern Italy and Hungary. -
Spicer A, 'L'Evesque en soit adverty:' excommunication in the exile congregations' in Dire l'interdit: The Vocabulary of Censure and Exclusion in the Early Modern Reformed Tradition, BRILL (2010)
ISBN: 9789004179226AbstractChurch discipline and the Reformed consistory, whether in Hungary, the Swiss world, France, The Netherlands or the British Isles, have become the subject of intense scholarly discussion. The fifteen essays gathered in this volume examine the process of censure and excommunication across Europe from the mid-sixteenth through the late eighteenth centuries. They reevaluate the relationship of women to ecclesiastical authority and explore the complex ways in which exclusion from the Lord's Supper operated. Several contributors trace the decrease in excommunication over time; others underscore national differences in its nature and the surprising infrequency of application. Together, they offer a fresh, unanticipated and illuminating portrait of the reform of morals associated with John Calvin and his followers.Published here -
Spicer A , 'Confessional Space and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe' in Formierungen des konfessionellen Raumes in Ostmitteleuropa, Franz Steiner Verlag (2008)
ISBN: 9783515091312AbstractSprechen wir heute von einem "typisch evangelischen" oder "typisch katholischen" Kirchenraum, so sind dahinter stets Akteure zu vermuten, die diese Räume einst aktiv gestalteten, ihnen einen unverwechselbaren Ausdruck gaben. Auch in Stadt- bzw. landesherrlichen Gebieten haben sich aber einen längeren Zeitraum konfessionelle Räume formiert. Der Vorgang selbst umfasst ein Ineinandergreifen von materiellem Gestalten, der aktiven Nutzung dieser Räume und dem Sprechen bzw. Schreiben darüber. Diesbezüglich bietet Ostmitteleuropa mit seinen Strukturmerkmalen "Multikonfessionalität", "Polyethnizität" und zudem einem großen Gewicht der Stände ein lohnendes Untersuchungsfeld: Die Frage nach dem konfessionellen Raum gerät so zum Prüfstein far die konfessionellen Werte und Codierungen geschaffener Lebenswelten.
Other publications
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Murdock G, Spicer A, 'Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France Afterword', (2012)
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Murdock G, Roberts P, Spicer A, 'Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France Preface', (2012)