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In her chapter, Gina Dahl focuses on the reception of religious ideas among eighteenth-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy. During the early modern period, the clergy had a significant role in terms of instilling Lutheran tenets into the general population. The clergy themselves were also susceptible to measures taken by the government to ensure conformity, such as the official control of the printing presses. However, given the scarcity of printing houses in Norway, learned books had to be imported from abroad, which meant that the transfer of early modern religious ideas mainly took place through an international exchange of books. In fact, the books of the eighteenth-century Norwegian clergy came from three main areas, namely Protestant parts of Germany, the Netherlands and the British Isles, and books from the latter areas in particular promulgated a significant amount of both Puritan as well as Presbyterian religious thought among the Norwegian clergy.
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Dahl, G. (2020). Books from the British Isles in the Collections of the Eighteenth-Century Norwegian Clergy. In: Kelly, J.E., Laugerud, H., Ryan, S. (eds) Northern European Reformations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54458-4_13
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