Andrew Spicer is Professor of Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Contents: Preface; Introduction: Lutheran churches and confessional identity, Andrew Spicer; Early modern Lutheran churches: redefining the boundaries of the holy and the profane, Vera Isaiasz; Lutheran churches and confessional competition in Augsburg, Emily Fisher Gray; Epitaphs in dialogue with sacred space: post-Reformation furnishings in the parish churches of St Nikolai and St Marien in Berlin, Maria Dieters; Framing the sacred: Lutheran church furnishings in the Holy Roman Empire, Margit Thÿfner; Marian imagery and its function in the Lutheran churches of early modern Transylvania, Maria Craciun; 'On Sundays for the laity ... we allow mass vestments, altars and candles to remain': the role of pre-Reformation ecclesiastical vestments in the formation of confessional, corporate and 'national' identities, Evelin Wetter; The material presence of music in church: the Hanseatic city of Lÿbeck, Matthias Range; Lutheran theology and artistic media responses to the theological discourse on the visual arts, Sven Rune Havsteen; Re-forming the confessional space: early Lutheran churches in Denmark, c.1536-1660, Birgitte Bÿggild Johannsen and Hugo Johannsen; State church and church state: churches and their interiors in post-Reformation Norway, 1537-1705, ÿystein Ekroll; Church furnishings and rituals in a Swedish provincial cathedral from 1527 to c.1660, Riitta Laitinen; 'Das "Geistliche Gebÿwde" der Kirche': the Lutheran Church in early modern Estonia as a meeting place of theological, social and artistic ideas, Krista Kodres; Lutherans in Cracow - contesting the sacred topography, Agnieszka Madej-Anderson; Lutheran churches in Poland, Jan Harasimowicz; 'Hic coeli porta est, hic domus ecce dei'. Lutheran churches in the Dutch world, c.1566-1719, Andrew Spicer; Afterword, Susan C. Karant-Nunn; Index.