Susan Karant-Nunn’s recent The Reformation of Feeling: Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany details the manner in which Protestant, Reformed, and Lutheran emotional “tenors” were created in the sixteenth century through the influence of emer- gent popular forms, the reemphasis of official tradition, and the negotiated blendings of components from each. Karant-Nunn demonstrates, for example, how sermons and material culture signaled to Lutheran churchgoers that late medieval “emotion-oriented piety was at an end.” That piety was recast as a concentrated emphasis on masculinized demonstrations of faith that modeled composure and control, over against the recklessness of female em