Communal christianity : : the life and loss of a peasant vision in early modern Germany / / David Mayes.
David Mayes proposes a new religious paradigm in early modern rural Germany. "Communal Christianity," the religious practice prevalent among peasants in mid-sixteenth-century rural Upper Hesse is juxtaposed with the more formally organized "Confessional" sects (e.g. Lutheran, Cal...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Central European Histories ; 35 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill Academic Publishers,, [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Central European Histories ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (379 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: Toward a New Paradigm for Religion in Early Modern Rural Germany
- PART I. THE AGE OF COMMUNAL CHRISTIANITY IN RURAL UPPER HESSE, CA. 1550-1648
- 1. Communal Christianity: The Aconfessional Livelihood of Religion in Rural Upper Hesse
- 2. Communal Christianity Continues amid a Lutheran Confessionalization, 1576-1604
- 3. Communal Christianity Thrives amid a Calvinist Confessionalization, 1605-1624
- 4. Communal Christianity Abides amid a Second Lutheran Confessionalization and the War Years, 1624-1648
- PART II. COMMUNAL CHRISTIANITY LOST IN THE WAKE OF COMMUNAL CONFESSIONALIZATION, 1648-1730
- 5. The Origins and Development of a Confessionalized Culture in Rural Upper Hesse, 1648-1677
- 6. The Spread and Ramifications of Communal Confessionalization, 1677-1730
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.