Military occupation under the eyes of the Lord : studies in Erfurt during the Thirty Years War / / Holger Berg.

• Superior document: Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte ; Bd. 103
• Author: Berg, Holger.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte ; Bd. 103.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (397 p.)
• Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--European University Institute, 2008.

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Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Body; 1. Introduction; Community study as a method; The religious impact of the Thirty Years War; Denominational views on calamities in Latin Christianity; 2. Sources; Sermons; Town chronicles; 3. The setting; 1618-1631. The war draws near; 1631-1635. The first Swedish occupation; The limits of religious violence; 1635-1645. The destructive decade; 1645-1664. The end of a war; 4. Signs of warning; The print market; Divine signs of warning observed locally; Angels and prophecies; Monstrous births

Precise prognosis or conditional prophecyDivination during war; The local politics of divine signs; Conclusions; Epilogue: the crisis in the late seventeenth century; 5. The theological debates; Lutheran propitiation; The spread of the Lutheran reform movement; The character and office of the protagonists; The unfolding controversy, 1636-1638; The debate during 1641 and 1642; Bartholomäus Elsner's proposals and the subsequent reforms; The traditionalist response; Nicolaus Stenger's alternative: sermons on conscience; Chroniclers' comments

Zacharias Hogel and the decline of radical Lutheran apocalypticismA constructionist view on experience and religious change; 6. Lay commitment during war; Churchgoing in a culture of honour; Religious commitment and the struggle for survival; Waging war on the pastor; Pastoral adaptations; Summary: limits to the communal praxis pietatis during war; Individual profiles; Prayers in 'a diary of constant fears'; Songs of comfort and revenge; Forging a pious tradition; The search for divine judgement; Civilian resistance - sinful impatience or defence of town honour?

War in the cosmography of a seventeenth-century cookLay readings of the Bible and the chronicles; Concluding remarks; 7. Conclusion; Post-war commemoration; The contributions of the chroniclers; Chronicles and other sources on lay war-time religiosity; Other cases and other calamities; Implications for further research; List of illustrations; Transcription, translation, and abbreviation; Appendix: Erfurt chronicles and journals; Bibliography; Indices; Index of Biblical books; Index of persons; Index of places and terms