History Has Many Voices

Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, vol. 63

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.

There is probably no better gift that can be made to a teacher than to document the flourishing of the seeds he planted.… Every single contribution in History Has Many Voices is eminently readable, and thus conveys also to nonspecialists a good insight into various matters. Within the particular genre of the Festschrift, this is a distinctive quality that merits attention.

—Sixteenth Century Journal

Introduction: The Past Has Many Voices
     Lee Palmer Wandel
Doubts about “Witches” and “Magicians” in Reginald Scot and Gabriel Naudé
     Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Alcohol and the Clergy in Traditional Europe
     A. Lynn Martin
Popes, Astrologers, and Early Modern Calendar Reform
     Frederic J. Baumgartner
Planning Jesuit Education from Loyola to the 1599 Ratio Studiorum
     John Patrick Donnelly, S.J.
Laity and Liturgy in the French Reformed Tradition
     Raymond A. Mentzer
Reflections on a Quarter Century of Research on Women and the Reformation
     Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Rethinking the Social History of the Poor
     Thomas Max Safley
Preparing the Pastors: Theological Education and Pastoral Training in Basel
     Amy Nelson Burnett