Shaping the Bible in the Reformation. This item is unavailable.Shaping the Bible in the Reformation

This volume presents significant new research on several key aspects of the late mediaeval and early modern Bible. The essays in this collection deal with Bible scholarship and translation, illustration and production, Bible uses for lay devotion, and the role of Bibles in theological controversy. Inquiring into the ways in which scholars gave new forms to their Bibles and how their readers received their work, this book considers the contribution of key figures such as Castellio, Bibliander, Tremellius, Piscator and Calov. In addition, it examines the exegetical controversies between several centres of Reformed learning as well as among the theologians of Louvain. It encompasses biblical illustration in the Low Countries and the use of maps in the Geneva Bible, and considers the practice of Bible translation, and the strategies by which new versions were justified.

Bruce Gordon is the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School. He is the author and editor of a number of books on the European Reformation, including (with Peter Marshall) The Place of the Dead. Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2000), The Swiss Reformation (Manchester, 2002) and (with Emidio Campi) Architect of Reformation. An Introduction to Heinrich Bullinger, 1504–1575 (Baker Academic, 2004). His most recent book is Calvin, published by Yale University Press in 2009.

Matthew McLean is Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He works on religion, science and the culture of humanism in the early modern period. His first book, The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster. Describing the World in the Reformation was published in 2007 by Ashgate. He is presently working on the AHRC Protestant Latin Bible Project.