The Counter-Reformation in the Villages : : Religion and Reform in the Bishopric of Speyer, 1560-1720 /

The Counter-Reformation in the Villages : : Religion and Reform in the Bishopric of Speyer, 1560-1720 / / Marc Forster.

Located in the middle Rhine valley, the Bishopric of Speyer was a confessionally diverse, primarily rural region dotted with villages and several small cities. In this book, Marc R. Forster reconstructs and analyzes the history of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in this one German bishopric from th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Forster, Marc,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1992
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Traditional Church and the Resistance to Reform
  • 2. The Reform of the Clergy
  • 3. The Reform in the Villages
  • 4. Confessional Conflict and the Limits of Episcopal Authority
  • 5. The Thirty Years7 War and the Failure of Catholicization
  • 6. The Tridentine Clergy and the Communal Church, 1650-1720
  • 7. The Growth of Catholic Consciousness, 1650-1720
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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