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1 online resource (232 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-230). |
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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 ... |
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Subject |
Books and reading -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Books and reading -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Books and reading -- Scandinavia -- History.
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Books and reading. |
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Scandinavia. |
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History. |
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Religious literature -- History and criticism.
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Religious literature. |
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Scandinavian prose literature -- History and criticism.
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Scandinavian prose literature. |
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Publishers and publishing -- Scandinavia -- History.
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Publishers and publishing. |
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Reformation -- Scandinavia.
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Reformation. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Added Author |
Appel, Charlotte, 1960-
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Fink-Jensen, Morten, 1969-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Religious reading in the Lutheran north. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011 144382643X (DLC) 2010681105 (OCoLC)683414157 |
ISBN |
9781443827676 (electronic book) |
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1443827673 (electronic book) |
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144382643X (electronic book) |
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9781443826433 (electronic book) |
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128314221X |
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9781283142212 |
Standard No. |
9786613142214 |
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