Table of Contents List of Figures Preface Introduction Kirsi-Maria Nummila Part I The Reception of Luther's Ideas and their Influence for the Development of Written Languages 1. 'QUAE PESTIS UNQUAM TAM PERNICIOSA INVASIT GREGEM CHRISTI?' The role of the Book in the Reception of Lutheranism in England John L. Flood 2. Linguistic ideas of the Lutheran Reformation in the genesis of literary Estonian Kristiina Ross 3. The Impact of Lutheran Thought on the Polish Literary Language in the 16th Century Izabela Winiarska-Górska Part II Effects of Bible Translations on the Evolution of Written Language 4. The Czech Language in Confessional Clashes of the 16th Century Robert Dittmann 5. The Swedish Bible translations and the transition from Old Swedish to Early Modern Swedish Jonathan Pettersson Part III Reuse of (Catholic) Texts after the Reformation 6. The Infant Jesus and his Mother in Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Scandinavian Book Culture Elise Kleivane and Svanhildur Ôskarsdóttir 7. Frühneuzeitliche Summarien - erbauliche, laienexegetische Bibelberichte als polemische Plattformen im beginnenden Zeitalter der Konfessionalisierung - Ein Vergleich zwischen Stephan Rodts Übertragung der neutestamentlichen Summarien Johannes Bugenhagens mit denen Veit Dietrichs sowie Johann Dietenbergers Sebastian Seyferth 8. Early Finnish translations of the hymn Te Deum laudamus Tanja Toropainen Part IV Language Contacts and Loanwords 9. Traces of Low German Influence in the Finnish Texts of Mikael Agricola? Mikko Bentlin 10. Polyglossia and nativization: The translation of zoonyms in early Dutch Bibles Merlijn de Smit 11. Medical Discourse in the Oldest Lithuanian Lutheran Texts Dainora Poci?t? 12. German Influence on the Christian Discourse of Early Written Latvian P?teris Vanags Contributors Index