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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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Leiden Boston : Brill,
2010
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions
volume 147 |
| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions |
| Schlagworte: | Sermons Reformation Deutschland Postille Predigt Geschichte 1520-1620 Geschichte 1520-1650 |
| Umfang: | xii, 641 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.