Dr Bridget Heal
Bridget M Heal
MA (Cantab), MA (Lond.), PhD (Lond.) - Senior Lecturer
Contact Details
E-mail - bmh6@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462909
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462927
Teaching and Research Interests
European (especially German) religious and social history of the late fifteenth century to the eighteenth century, with particular interest in the visual culture of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and in women’s history.
Main Publications
Book
- ‘The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648' (Cambridge University Press, 2007) [More details]
Edited Volume
- With Ole Grell, 'The Impact of the European Reformation: Princes, Clergy and People' (Ashgate, 2008)
Articles
- ‘”Better Papist than Calvinist”: Art and Identity in Later Lutheran Germany’, German History (forthcoming, 2011)
- Church Space and Religious Change in Reformation Germany’ in Religious Conversion: Experiences and Meanings ed. Miri Rubin and Ira Katznelson (Brepols, forthcoming)
- ‘Mary “Triumphant over Demons and also Heretics”: Religious Symbols and Confessional Uniformity in Catholic Germany’ in Diversity and Dissent: Negotiating Religious Differences in Central Europe, 1500-1800 ed. Howard Louthan, Gary B. Cohen and Franz A. J. Szabo (Berghahn Books, 2011)
- ‘Sacred image and sacred space in sixteenth-century Germany’ in 'Sacred Space: The Redefinition of Sanctity in Post-Reformation Europe' ed. Will Coster and Andrew Spicer (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- ‘Marian devotion and confessional identity in sixteenth-century Germany’ in 'Studies in Church History volume 39, The Church and Mary', ed. Robert Swanson (Ecclesiastical History Society / Boydell and Brewer, 2004)
- ‘Images of the Virgin Mary and Marian devotion in Protestant Nuremberg’ in 'Religion and “Superstition” in Reformation Europe', ed. Bill Naphy and Helen Parish (Manchester University Press, 2003)
- ‘Civitas Virginis? The significance of civic dedication to the Virgin for the development of Marian Imagery in Siena before 1311’ in 'Art, Politics, and Civic Religion in Central Italy, 1261 – 1352', ed. Joanna Cannon and Beth Williamson (Ashgate, 2000)
Administrative Duties
On research leave 2010-2012
Member of editorial boards of Renaissance Studies (Blackwell), Art History (Blackwell) and St Andrews Studies in Reformation History (Ashgate)
Teaching Duties
On research leave 2010-2012
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