CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Bibliography of the Works of Thomas A. Brady, Jr -- PART ONE: COMMUNITIES -- The City-State in the German-speaking Lands (Tom Scott) -- The Topography of Sacred Space and the Representation of Social Groups: Confraternities in Strasbourg (Sabine von Heusinger) -- Ratsräson und Bürgersinn: Zur Führungsschicht der Reichsstadt Nördlingen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert (Ingrid Bátori) -- Portrait and Pageantry: New Idioms in the Interaction Between City and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg (Heidi Eberhardt Bate) -- ,Hohe Schule' oder Universität? Zur Pfarrerausbildung in Bern im 16. Jahrhundert (Beat Immenhauser) -- Let the Punishment Fit the Crime: The Social Miracle and Criminal Sentencing in Early Modern Leiden (C. Nathan Bartlett and Laura Ford Cruz) -- Buchner at the Font: Godparenting and Network Building in Seventeenth-Century Wilno (David Frick) -- Taverns and Inns in the German Countryside: Male Honor and Public Space (Marc R. Forster) -- Thinking with the Thurgau: Political Pamphlets from the Villmergerkrieg and the Construction of Biconfessional Politics in Switzerland and Europe (Randolph C. Head) -- Of Liberty and the Upstalsboom: Urban-Rural Alliances and Symbols of Freedom in Early Modern East Frisia (David M. Luebke) -- Success and Failure: Reflections on the Effectiveness of Early Modern Poor Relief in the Orphanages of Augsburg (Thomas Max Safley) -- PART TWO: POLITIES -- The Politics of History in the Swiss Reformation (Regula Schmid) -- "And Blood Rained from the Sky": Creating a Burgundian Identity after the Fall of Burgundy (Kathryn A. Edwards) -- Ruling Class and Regime in an Ecclesiastical Territory: The Case of Salem (Katherine Brun) -- "My bitter comedie": The Treason Trial of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton and the Rule of Law in Tudor England (Narasingha P. Sil).

Burgher Lenders and Public Credit: The Role of Town Governments in Holland's State Debt, 1572-1588 (James D. Tracy) -- Social Control and Social Justice under Maximilian I of Bavaria (r. 1598-1651) (Sigrun Haude) -- Nachbarn and Voisins: Changing Political Relations in the Upper Rhine Valley in the Wake of the Thirty Years' War (Peter G. Wallace) -- PART THREE: NATIONS AND EMPIRES -- Rejecting an Emperor: Hussites and Sigismund (Jeanne E. Grant) -- The Union of Calmar -Nordic Great Power or Northern German Outpost? (Steinar Imsen) -- Some Peculiarities of Empire in the Early Modern Era (Carina L. Johnson) -- Zwischen Spätmittelalter und Reformation - politischer Föderalismus im Reich der Reformationszeit (Gabriele Haug-Moritz) -- Creating a Protestant Constantine: Martin Bucer's De Regno Christi and the Foundations of English Imperial Political Theology (Thomas Dandelet) -- Frühmoderne Staatsbildung und die Entstehung des neuzeitlichen Mächte-Europa (Heinz Schilling) -- Faith in Empire: Religious Sources of Legitimacy for Expansionist Early-Modern States (Luke Clossey) -- Atlantic Exchange in History (Wolfgang Reinhard) -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names of Persons and Places -- Index of Subjects.