Enacting the Reformation in Germany

Essays on Institution and Reception

Gerald Strauss (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

1993
Variorum (Verlag)
978-0-86078-351-0 (ISBN)

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Contains 16 essays and articles written over 16 years, which trace and analyze the social consequences of the German Reformation's salient ideas and positions. The text shows a society trying to understand the deep structural and mental changes brought on by Martin Luther's revolt against Rome.

Enacting the Reformation in Germany brings together sixteen essays and articles written over a thirty-year period by a historian who has made it his special scholarly concern to trace and analyze the social consequences of the German Reformation's salient ideas and positions. The picture Strauss draws of a country and a society struggling to understand and incorporate the deep structural and mental changes brought on by Martin Luther's revolt against Rome has the sharpness and contrast of a visual image.

Gerald Strauss, Indiana University-Bloomington, USA

Contents: Provisional Contents: Preface; The course of German history: the Lutheran interpretation; The image of Germany in the 16th century; The production of Johann Stumpf’s description of the Swiss Confederation; Protestant dogma and city government: the case of Nuremberg; The religious policies of Dukes Wilhelm IV and Ludwig X of Bavaria in the first decade of the Protestant era; Luther as Barabbas; The state of pedagogical theory c. 1530: what Protestant reformers knew about education; The social function of schools in the Lutheran Reformation in Germany; Liberal or illiberal arts?; Lutheranism and literacy: a reassessment; Success and failure in the German Reformation; The Reformation and its public in an age of orthodoxy; How to read a Volksbuch: the Faust book of 1587; Three kinds of Christian freedom: law, liberty, and license in the German Reformation; The dilemma of popular history; The idea of order in the German Reformation; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.11.1993
Reihe/Serie	Variorum Collected Studies
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	0-86078-351-0 / 0860783510
ISBN-13	978-0-86078-351-0 / 9780860783510
Zustand	Neuware