The primacy of the postils : Catholics, Protestants, and the dissemination of ideas in early modern Germany

Scholarship on the German Reformation has long equated preaching with Protestantism, just as many scholars have employed sermons but usually in supplemental and unsystematic ways. Based on an analysis of over 400 standard sermon collections (postils) produced by Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists...

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Auteur principal: Frymire, John M. (Auteur)
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié: Leiden Boston : Brill, 2010
Titres liés à la collection:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions volume 147
Accès à la collection:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions
Sujets:Sermons Reformation Deutschland Postille Predigt Geschichte 1520-1620 Geschichte 1520-1650
Description matérielle:xii, 641 Seiten
Table des matières:
  • Catholic preaching and the German Reformation? : postils and their production, 1520-1535
  • Re-invention, innovation, and reaction : Lutheran and Catholic postils, 1535-1555
  • Matches made in heaven : Lutheran postillators in the service of their princes, 1555-1620
  • Excursus : Calvinist postils? : the pragmatism of German Reformed postillators
  • Catholic Postillenfresser : postils, Catholic reform, and the Counter-Reformation
  • Correcting Catholicism : censorship, confessional consolidation, and the decline of homegrown postillators.