Politics and reformations : histories and reformations : essays in honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr. / edited by Christopher Ocker ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ocker, Christopher.

Brady, Thomas A., Jr., 1937-

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions 1573-4188 ; v. 127.

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 127

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Reformation.

Church history.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxi, 471 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

These twenty-three essays, presented by students, colleagues, and friends to Thomas A. Brady, Jr., the Sather Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, explore the historiographies of the Reformation from the fifteenth century to the present and study the social and cultural history of religion from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, especially in Germany but also in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and colonial Mexico.

Contributors include: Dean Phillip Bell, Peter Blickle, Christoph Burger, Roger Chickering, Constantin Fasolt, Kaspar von Greyerz, Berndt Hamm, Craig Harline, Joel F. Harrington, Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Greta Grace Kroeker, Amy Leonard, Marc Lienhard, Terence McIntosh, H.C. Erik Midelfort, Christopher Oeker, Michael Printy, Anne Jacobson Schutte, Julie K. Tanaka, William B. Taylor, Elaine C. Tennant, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Ellen Yutzy Glebe.

Contents:

Bibliography of the Works of Thomas A. Brady, Jr. xv

Tempests and Sturme in Reformation Studies: Some Scholarly and Personal Observations / Kaspar von Greyerz 1

The Reformation in Post-War Historiography: An American Contribution / Peter Blickle 11

Part 1 Histories

Ranke, Lamprecht, and Luther / Roger Chickering 23

The Reformation and the Early Social Sciences (Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Freud): Toward a Cultural Epidemiology / H.C. Erik Midelfort 35

Ranke Meets Gadamer: The Question of Agency in the Reformation / Lee Palmer Wandel 63

Historians without Borders? L'histoire croisee and Early Modern Social History / Joel F. Harrington 79

Recent Studies of the Roman Inquisition / Anne Jacobson Schutte 91

Hermann Conring and the European History of Law / Constantin Fasolt 113

The Reformation of the Enlightenment: German Histories in the Eighteenth Century / Michael Printy 135

Historical Writing and German Identity: Jacob Wimpheling and Sebastian Franck / Julie K. Tanaka 155

Perfecting the Past: Charles the Bold and Traditional Historiography in Early Modern Germany / Elaine C. Tennant 177

Part 2 Reformations

The Personal is Political: Convents in the Holy Roman Empire / Amy Leonard 199

Guerre et paix dans les ecrits de Zwingli et de Luther: une comparaison / Marc Lienhard 217

Luther and Muntzer See Mary's Magnificat through Different Spectacles / Christoph Burger 241

Beyond the Freedom of the Will: Erasmus' Struggle for Grace / Greta Grace Kroeker 255

Tolerance and Heresy: Martin Bucer's Radical New Definition of Christian Fellowship / Berndt Hamm 269

Landgrave Philipp's Dilemma: The Roots of Tolerance and the Desire for Protestant Unity / Ellen Yutzy Glebe 293

Calvin in Germany / Christopher Ocker 313

Confessionalization in Early Modern Germany: A Jewish Perspective / Dean Phillip Bell 345

Catholic Intensity in Post-Reformation Germany: Preaching on the Passion and Catholic Identity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Susan C. Karant-Nunn 373

Pietism, Ministry, and Church Discipline: The Tribulations of Christoph Matthaus Seidel / Terence McIntosh 397

Religious Wars at Home: The Problem of Confessionally Mixed Families / Craig Harline 425

Trouble with Miracles: An Episode in the Culture and Politics of Wonder in Colonial Mexico / William B. Taylor 441

Index of Names of Persons 461.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Bibliography of the works of Thomas A. Brady to 1 January 2007": pages [xv]-xxi.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9004161724

9789004161726

OCLC:

166290711