This book examines the experiences and interconnections of the Reformations, principally in Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland (but with an eye to the broader Scandinavian landscape as well), and also discusses instances of similarities between the Reformations in both realms.

1. Introduction- James E. Kelly, Henning Laugerud and Salvador Ryan.- Part I: Slow Reformations.- 2. Reformation on Scotland’s Northern Frontier: The Orkney Islands, 1560-c.1700- Peter Marshall.- 3. The Sidaskipti: Iceland’s Change of Fashion- Jack P. Cunningham.- 4. “Another Age Will Damage and Destroy”: The Radicalized Reformation in Denmark-Norway in the Later Part of the Sixteenth Century- Henrik von Achen.- Part II: Migration, Exile and Interconnections.- 5. Reformation Across the North Sea: Early Protestant Connections between Denmark, England, and Scotland- Morten Fink-Jensen.- 6. Confessional Migration and Religious Change in the Northern European Reformations- Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin.- 7. Exiles and Activists: A Comparison of the Counter-Reformation in Wales and Norway- James January-McCann.- Part III: Zones of Circulation: Transfer of Ideas and People.- 8. “Islands not Far from Norway, Denmark and Germany”: Shetland,Orkney and the Spread of the Reformation in the North- Charlotte Methuen.- 9. “Nullus”: the Ending of Conventual Religious Life in Denmark-Norway, England and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland- John McCafferty.- Part IV: Appropriations and Adaptations.- 10. Devotion in Transition: The Practice of Appropriation of Danish and British Medieval Prayer Books- Laura Katrine Skinnebach.- 11. The Martyrdom of St Edmund (d. 869) at the Hands of the Danes and its Legacy in Early Modern England- Susan Royal.- 12. Seventeenth-Century Ireland and Norway: Peripheral Reformations in Print?- Raymond Gillespie.- Part V: Northern European Reformations over the Longue Durée.- 13. Books from the British Isles in the Collections of the Eighteenth- Century Norwegian Clergy- Gina Dahl.- 14. “Superstition” in the Reformation Polemics of England and Denmark-Norway – and the Emergence of Folklore and Popular Religion- Henning Laugerud & John Ødemark.- 15. The Missionary Problem in Early Modern Protestantism: British, Irish and Scandinavian Perspectives- Alec Ryrie.- 16. Epilogue- Carlos Eire.

This book examines the experiences and interconnections of the Reformations, principally in Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland (but with an eye to the broader Scandinavian landscape as well), and also discusses instances of similarities between the Reformations in both realms. The volume features a comprehensive introduction, and provides a broad survey of the beginnings and progress of the Catholic and Protestant Reformations in Northern Europe, while also highlighting themes of comparison that are common to all of the bloc under consideration, which will be of interest to Reformation scholars across this geographical region.

“The three editors of this volume are to be congratulated on their thought-provoking, clearly structured and beautifully integrated anthology … . the book greatly improves our understanding of the reformations of the early modern period and I commend it wholeheartedly to all interested readers.” (Margit Thofner, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 72 (4), October, 2021)“The editors have performed splendidly, avoiding almost all the pitfalls of a multi-authored collection, including that of categorising their contributors conveniently rather than coherently. The essays speak fluently to one another and there is impressive cross-referencing, sure evidence of thorough and thoughtful editorial attention.” (Thomas O’Connor, Studia Hibernica, Vol. 47 (1), October, 2021)

Examines the parallel experiences and interconnections of the Reformations Focuses on Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland as well as the broader Scandinavian landscape Brings together the experiences of these northern European countries during the period of reformations in one volume