FNI Panel: Towards a Media History of the Reformation

We are organizing a panel that approaches the European Reformations from the vantage point of media history. On the one hand we are inviting contributions that explore in a more general and formal way how the various reforms can be understood as responses to a crisis of mediation; on the other how reformation processes have been profoundly shaped by the specific media involved in their emergence and dissemination; media in the term’s broadest understanding such as the printing press, broadsheets, sermons, catechisms, etc. We welcome contributions that focus more systematically on one particular medium, or that discuss the intersection of several different media.