this important and cutting edge assortment explores the altering piety of townspeople and villagers earlier than, in the course of and after the Reformation. It brings jointly prime and new students from England and the Netherlands to offer new learn on a topic of value to historians of society and faith in overdue medieval and early glossy Europe. individuals research the various facts for transitions in piety and the strategies of those alterations. the quantity includes a variety of ways together with social, cultural and spiritual heritage, literary and manuscript reports, social anthropology and archaeology. this is often, for that reason, an interdisciplinary quantity that constitutes a cultural historical past of fixing pieties within the interval c. 1400-1640. individuals specialise in a couple of particular issues utilizing various forms of proof and theoretical ways. a few chapters make specific reconstructions of particular groups, teams and contributors; a few provide perceptive and necessary analyses of theoretical and comparative methods to transition and to piety; and others heavily research cultural practices, rules and tastes. via this diversity of unique paintings, which brings to mild formerly unknown resources in addition to new ways to extra regular resources, participants 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 provide an incredible contribution to the sphere of past due medieval and early glossy piety. They spotlight, for the 1st time, the centrality of strategies of transition within the adventure and perform of faith. delivering a refreshingly new method of the topic, this quantity increases well timed theoretical and methodological questions that would be of curiosity to a huge audience.