German histories in the age of Reformations, 1400-1650 / Thomas A. Brady Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brady, Thomas A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation--Germany.

Reformation.

Germany--Church history.

Germany.

Germany--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 477 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both a general reformation of the Church before 1520 and a national reformation thereafter. The resulting settlement maintained the public peace through politically structured religious communities (confessions), thereby avoiding further religious strife and fixing the confessions into the Empire's constitution. The Germans' emergence into the modern era as a people having two national religions was the reformation's principal legacy to modern Germany.

Contents:

Part I. The empire, the German lands, and their peoples. Reformations in German histories ; Shapes of the German lands ; Temporal estates

farmers, traders, fighters ; The church and the faith

Part II. Reform of the empire and the church, 1400-1520. Reform of empire and church ; The empire and the territorial states ; The reform of the empire in the age of Maximilian I ; Ideals and illusions of reforming the church

Part III. Church, reformations, and empire, 1520-1576. Urban reformations ; A revolution of the common man ; Imperial reformations in the age of Charles V ; Imperial peace, 1555-1580

Part IV. Confessions, empire, and war, 1576-1650. Forming the Protestant Confession ; Reforming the Catholic Church ; Limits of public life

Jews, heretics, witches ; Roads to war ; The Thirty Years War ; German reformations, German futures.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-69905-0

1-107-20115-2

0-511-62702-5

0-511-59307-4

0-511-65112-0

0-511-59214-0

0-511-59500-X

OCLC:

609842972