Research Team
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David M. LuebkeDavid M. Luebke is a professor of history at the University of Oregon whose work focuses on the religions and political cultures of ordinary people in early modern Europe, especially the German-speaking lands. He is author of many articles, including “’Naïve Monarchism’ and Marian Veneration in Early Modern Germany” (1997) and “Confessions of the Dead: Interpreting Burial Practice in the Late Reformation,” Archive for Reformation History101 (2010), 55-79. His co-edited volumes include Mixed Matches: Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment (2014) and Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017 (2017). His latest monograph—Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia, 1535-1650—appeared in 2016 with the University of Virginia Press. Currently he is working on a history of shared churches in central Europe, from the sixteenth century to the present. |
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Marjorie Elizabeth (Beth) PlummerMarjorie Elizabeth (Beth) Plummer is the Susan C. Karant Chair for Reformation and Early Modern European History in the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona. Her publications include From Priest’s Whore to Pastor’s Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation (2012) and Stripping the Veil: Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). She is co-editor of Archeologies of Reformation: Writing the German Reformation, 1517–2017 (2017) and Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance: Responses to Religious Pluralism in Reformation Europe (2018). In addition, she is a managing editor for the Archive for Reformation History. Currently, she is researching one project on mixed confessional convents during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and another on the daily interactions among the members of congregations with shared and mixed confessional parish churches in the Soester Börde. |
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Andrew SpicerAndrew Spicer is Professor of Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University. His research focuses on the socio-cultural impact of the Reformation, particularly iconoclasm, church buildings and the material culture of worship. He is currently completing a monograph titled War, Revolt and Sacred Space: Cambrai and the Southern Netherlands, c. 1566–1621, and is the author of Calvinist Churches in Early Modern Europe (2007). He co-edited Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, c.1559–1685 (2002), Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe (2005), Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2005), Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands (2006), Ritual and Violence: Natalie Zemon Davis and Early Modern France (2012), The Place of the Social Margins, 1350–1750 (2016), and edited Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe (2012) and Parish Churches in the Early Modern World (2016). He is a former President of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. |
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