1st Edition
The Chancery of God Protestant Print, Polemic and Propaganda against the Empire, Magdeburg 1546–1551
By Nathan Rein
Copyright 2008
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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The disastrous protestant defeat in the Schmalkaldic War (1546-47) and the promulgation of the Ausburg Interim (1548) left the fate of German Protestantism in doubt. In the wake of these events, a single protestant town, Magdeburg, offered organized, sustained resistance to Emperor Charles V's drive to consolidate Habsburg hegemony and reinstitute uniform Roman Catholic worship throughout Germany.... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Pamphlets and policy; 'German liberty'; 'God's Word, pure and clear': the interim controversy; Urban theology and the siegeworks; Religion and the 'Magdeburg worldview'; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Nathan Rein is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Ursinus College, USA.
’Rein’s book is a must read for religious historians and political theorists...’ Religious Studies Review ’Overall, this is a must-read for students of German religious and political history in the mid-sixteenth century. The scope of the treatment goes well beyond the geographical or temporal limits described in the title: indeed, careful consideration of Rein’s thesis may well force scholars to rethink some of the standard approaches to the history of Confessionalization and of the origins of modern theories of political resistance.’ Catholic Historical Review ’... [Rein] has crafted a book that will be equally useful to scholars and students both as a detailed analysis of the marriage between politics and religion in the Lutheran reformation and as an insightful introduction to the broader contours of contemporary research in sixteenth-century religious history. ... This book, then, besides being a welcome contribution to specialized Reformation history, is also potentially useful in the classroom.’ Sixteenth Century Journal
