this crucial and leading edge assortment explores the altering piety of townspeople and villagers prior to, in the course of and after the Reformation. It brings jointly major and new students from England and the Netherlands to offer new learn on a subject matter of significance to historians of society and faith in past due medieval and early glossy Europe. participants learn the various facts for transitions in piety and the methods of those alterations. the quantity contains a variety of methods together with social, cultural and spiritual heritage, literary and manuscript experiences, social anthropology and archaeology. this is often, as a result, an interdisciplinary quantity that constitutes a cultural background of fixing pieties within the interval c. 1400-1640. participants specialize in a couple of particular topics utilizing various sorts of proof and theoretical techniques. a few chapters make precise reconstructions of particular groups, teams and contributors; a few provide perceptive and necessary analyses of theoretical and comparative ways to transition and to piety; and others heavily research cultural practices, principles and tastes. via this diversity of exact paintings, which brings to gentle formerly unknown assets in addition to new methods to extra normal assets, individuals tackle a few questions coming up from fresh released paintings on overdue medieval and early sleek piety and reformation. separately and jointly, the chapters during this quantity supply an incredible contribution to the sector of past due medieval and early smooth piety. They spotlight, for the 1st time, the centrality of techniques of transition within the adventure and perform of faith. supplying a refreshingly new method of the topic, this quantity increases well timed theoretical and methodological questions that would be of curiosity to a large audience.