Religious Identity in an Early Reformation Community : Augsburg, 1517 to 1555.
Title:
Religious Identity in an Early Reformation Community : Augsburg, 1517 to 1555.
Author:
Hanson, Michele Zelinsky.
ISBN:
9789047442431
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Series:
Studies in Central European Histories, 45 ; v.45
Studies in Central European Histories, 45
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Names, Translations and Quotations -- Introduction -- Contents -- Chapter One. Ambiguous Identities -- Chapter Two. Religious Tensions in the 1520s -- Trespassing -- Blasphemy -- Chapter Three. Anabaptists: A Special Case? -- Degrees of Association -- Social Networks -- Trouble with the Law -- Chapter Four. Magisterial Reform and Religious Deviance -- Chapter Five. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Political -- Encounters -- Censorship of Printing -- Critical Speeches -- Chapter Six. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Religious -- Encounters -- Attacks on the Clergy -- Religious Deviance -- Miscellaneous -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Based on Sixteenth-Century interrogation records, this book provides a rare insight into the religious lives of ordinary people, challenging the importance of belief in constructing religious identities and revealing the potential for accommodation during the controversies of the early Reformation.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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