Prof Bridget Heal

Prof Bridget Heal

Professor

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2909
Email
bmh6@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location
St John's House
Office hours
On Research Leave AY2025-26

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Research areas

My research focusses on the long-term impact of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations on German society and culture. The most distinctive element of my approach is the incorporation of visual evidence into the broader frameworks of religious history. My first monograph,Ìý, drew on both textual and visual sources to analyse the significance of Marian piety during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. My second monograph,Ìý, was published in 2017.Ìý It explains how and why Lutheranism—a confession that insisted upon the pre-eminence of God’s Word—became a visually magnificent faith, a faith whose adherents produced, during the eighteenth century, monuments as splendid as the Frauenkirche in Dresden. I spent 2017-18 as a visiting fellow at the Freie Universität in Berlin in order to work on my next major project, which focuses on religious life during and after the Thirty Years' War.

See also the

PhD supervision

  • JohnÌýSullivan

Selected publications

  • Heal, B. M., 2007, Cambridge University Press. 338 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Heal, B. M., 2011, In: German History. 29, 4, p. 584-609

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Heal, B., 10 Aug 2017, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 305 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Heal, B. M., 2018, Die Reichsstadt Regensburg und die Reformation im Heiligen Roemischen Reich. Rudolph, H. (ed.). Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, p. 211-232

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Heal, B. M., 30 Oct 2017, Das Bild der Reformation in der Aufklärung . Schäufele, W.-F. & Strohm, C. (eds.). Guetersloh: Guetersloher Verlag, p. 279-299 21 p. (Schriften des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte; vol. 218).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Heal, B. M., Apr 2017, In: Art History. 40, 2, p. 358-379

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Heal, B. M. (Editor) & Kremers, A. (Editor), 2017, Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht. 275 p. (V&R academic)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Heal, B. M., Dec 2016, The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations. Rublack, U. (ed.). Oxford University Press, p. 601-620

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Heal, B. M., 2014, Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany. Smith, J. C. (ed.). Ashgate, p. 43-59

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Heal, B. M., Dec 2013, In: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. 104, p. 185-210 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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