Trevor Johnson

BA (Kent), MA (Kent), PhD (Cantab)

In memory of Dr Trevor Johnson

There is a 'Remembering Trevor Johnson' group on Facebook,
where tributes may be left

Research interests

Trevor's research interests could be divided into two main strands: a continuing interest in the cultural, religious, political and military history of early modern Germany, in particular of Bavaria, and a broader concern with the intellectual, spiritual and devotional culture of the Catholic or Counter Reformation as a pan-European phenomenon. In line with the former he had completed a study of the Counter Reformation in the Upper Palatinate; the second strand explored the contested Mariological dogma of the Immaculate Conception in the early modern Catholic world, and presented a study of the changing fabric of the parish church in early modern Spain.

Publications

Books

Bob Scribner and Trevor Johnson (eds), Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe (Houndmills, 1996).

Articles, Essays and Other Works

‘Guardian Angels and the Society of Jesus’, in Peter Marshall and Alexandra Walsham (eds), Angels in the Early Modern World (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 191-213.

‘Defining the Confessional Frontier: Bavaria, the Upper Palatinate and Counter-Reformation “Historia Sacra”’, in Steven Ellis and Raingard Esser (eds), Frontiers and the Writing of History, 1500-1800 (Hannover, 2006), pp. 151-66.

‘The Catholic Reformation’, in Alec Ryrie (ed.), Palgrave Advances in the European Reformations (Houndmills, 2006), pp. 190-211.

‘”Everyone should be like the People”: Elite and Popular Religion and the Counter Reformation’, in Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (eds), Elite and Popular Religion (Studies in Church History, Vol. 39, Woodbridge, 2006), pp. 206-24.

‘Gardening for God: Carmelite Deserts and the Sacralisation of Natural Space in Counter-Reformation Spain’, in Will Coster and Andrew Spicer (eds), Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2005), pp. 193-210.

‘Religion’, in Garthine Walker (ed.), Writing Early Modern History (London, 2005), pp. 139-58.

‘Besessenheit, Heiligkeit und Jesuitenspiritualität: Der Straubinger Exorzismus von 1664’, in Hans de Waardt et al (eds), Dämonische Besessenheit. Zur Interpretation eines kulturhistorschen Phänomens (Gütersloh, 2005), pp. 233-47.

‘”Fantastically Strange”: Religion, Magic and Witchcraft in the Reformation Era’, European History Quarterly, 35 (2005), pp. 97-106.

‘”That in Her the Seed of the Serpent May have No part”: The Agredan Visons and the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin in Early Modern Spain and Germany’, in R.N. Swanson (ed.), The Church and Mary (Studies in Church History, Vol. 39, Woodrbridge, 2004), pp. 259-70.

‘”Victoria a deo missa?”: Living saints on the battlefields of the central European Counter Reformation’, in Jürgen Beyer, Albrecht Burkardt, Fred van Lieburg and Marc Wingens (eds), Confessional Sanctity (c.1500-c.1800) (Mainz, 2003), pp. 319-335.

‘”You are the salt of the Earth and the Light of the World”: Regulars, Seculars, and the Pastoral care of New Catholics in the Upper Palatinate during the Thirty Years’ war’, Dutch Review of Church History (Special Issue on the ‘Pastor Bonus’), Vol. 83 (2003), pp. 247-259.

‘Holy Dynasts and Sacred Soil: Politics and Sanctity in Matthaeus Rader’s Bavaria Sancta (1615-1628)’, in Sofia Boesch Gajano and Raimondo Michetti (eds), Europa Sacra. Raccolte agiografiche e identità politiche in Europa fra medioevo ed Età moderna (Rome, 2002), pp. 83-100.

‘The Reformation and Popular Culture’, in Andrew Pettegree (ed.), The Reformation World (London, 2000), pp. 545-560.

‘Trionfi of the Holy Dead: The Relic Festivals of Baroque Bavaria’, in Karin Friedrich (ed.), Festive Culture in Germany and Central Europe from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century (Lewiston, 2000), pp. 31-56.

‘Holy Fabrications: The Catacomb Saints and the Counter Reformation in Bavaria’, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 47 (1996), pp. 274-297.

‘Blood, Tears and Xavier-Water: Jesuit Missions and Popular Religion in the Eighteenth-Century Upper Palatinate’, in Bob Scribner and Trevor Johnson (eds), Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe (Houndmills, 1996), pp. 183-202.

‘The Upper-Palatinate Nobility and the Counter Reformation’, in Beat Kümin (ed.), Reformations Old and New (Aldershot, 1996), pp. 147-168.

Hans-Juergen Goertz, The Anabaptists (translated by Trevor Johnson, London, 1996).