1st Edition
German Imperial Knights Noble Misfits between Princely Authority and the Crown, 1479–1648
By Richard J. Ninness
Copyright 2021
322 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
322 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
322 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The German imperial knights were branded disobedient, criminal, or treasonous, but instead of finding themselves on the wrong side of history, they resisted marginalization and adapted through a combination of conservative and progressive strategies. The knights tried to turn the elite world on its head through their constant challenges to the princes in the realms of both culture and governance.... Read more
Introduction 1
1 Free Knights’ Dilemma 17
2 Marginality and Subversion 52
3 Institutionalization of a Peculiar Status in the Midst
of the Reformation 86
4 Grumbach’s Attempt at a Nobles’ Revolution, Its
Failure, and a New Status Quo 136
5 Imperial Knights and Imperial Church: Their
Strategies in the Reformation Era 177
6 Imperial Knighthood, Multiconfessionalism, and the
Counter-Reformation 207
Conclusion: Imperial Knights as Noble Misfits 257
Bibliography 270
Index 300
Biography
Richard J. Ninness is Associate Professor at Touro College in New York City. He is the author of Between Opposition and Collaboration: Nobles, Bishops, and the German Reformations in the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg (2011).
