This is a repository copy of Translating Christianity in an Age of Reformations. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/115307/ Version: Accepted Version Article: Ditchfield, Simon Richard orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-0271 (2017) Translating Christianity in an Age of Reformations. Studies in Church History. 11. pp. 164-195. ISSN 0424-2084 https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2016.11 Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing
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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Translating Christianity in an Age of Reformations Simon Ditchfield University of York∗ Abstract: This chapter argues that the age of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the global spread of the latter brought with it the challenge that not only was it necessary to learn new languages in order to communicate the Christian message to non-European peoples encountered during the so-called ‘Age of Discovery’, but some kind of control had to be exercised over the new, global circulation of sacred images and relics.