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 463334
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 29/4 (2011), pp.584-609
- ‘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
Director of the Reformation Studies Institute
Reformation Studies MLitt Co-ordinator
Co-editor of German History
Member of editorial boards of:
Research Students
Nadja Kundmüller, The cult of the Eucharist in early modern Bavaria
Róisín Watson, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century German religious and gender history
Teaching Duties
Dr Heal teaches on the sub-honours courses MO1007 and HI2001, participates in the Evening Degree Programme teaching MO3910 The Reformation in Europe and offers the following honours course:
MO3026 Art and Piety in Western Europe, 1400-1700
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