Spirituality and Reform

Calvin Lane explores the intersection between reform movements and everyday Christian practice from c.1000 to c.1800. Providing colorful details, Lane lowers the artificial boundaries between "the Middle Ages" and "the Reformation" to show a series of reform programs each of which hoped to revive an imagined primitive Golden Age.

Calvin Lane is affiliate professor of church history at Nashotah House Theological Seminary.

Introduction: Spirituality & Reform 1. The Spiritual Landscape: The Mass in the Middle Ages 2. The Spiritual Landscape: Mediating the Holy in the Middle Ages 3. The Spirituality of High Medieval Reform Movements: Popes & Monks 4. Medieval Mysticism & Reform 5. The Spirituality of Late Medieval Reform Movements: Pushing the Boundaries 6. Sixteenth-Century Reformations: The Sacraments 7. Sixteenth-Century Reformations: Preaching, Sacred Space, & Music 8. Sixteenth-Century Reformations: Pastoral Care & the Life Cycle 9. Sixteenth-Century Reformations: Early Modern Catholicism 10. Spirituality & the Encounter: Opportunities for a Primitive Church 11. Spirituality & the Bloody Theater: Martyrdom in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity 12. Religions of the Heart: New Movements of the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries Conclusion: Post Tenebras Lux? Appendix 1: Timeline Appendix 2: Shortlist of Primary Sources in English