The German People and the Reformation
Title | The German People and the Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | R. Po-chia Hsia |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801494857 |
"In the past, scholars tended to treat the Reformation as a chapter in the history of ideas, emphasizing the thought of the major reformers and the changes in Christian doctrine. Today, however, more and more historians are asking how the revolution in theology affected the lives of ordinary men and women. Aware that religious faith is part of the larger cultural and material universe of early modern Europeans, these scholars have exploited hitherto neglected sources in an attempt to reconstruct the people's Reformation. The twelve essays commissioned for this collection represent the broad spectrum of recent scholarship in the social history of the German Reformation. Historians from various countries offer a panorama of different methodological approaches and thematic concerns. Some of the essays represent original research; others address current historiographical debates; still others offer concise syntheses of recently published monographs, including seminal works in German. The essays are centered around four themes: cities and the Reformation; the transmitting of the Reformation in print, ritual and song; women and the family; and lastly, the impact of the Reformation on education and other aspects of lay culture." -- Back cover.
German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650
Title | German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas A. Brady |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2009-07-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 052188909X |
This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both a general reformation of the Church before 1520 and a national reformation thereafter. The resulting settlement maintained the public peace through politically structured religious communities (confessions), thereby avoiding further religious strife and fixing the confessions into the Empire's constitution. The Germans' emergence into the modern era as a people having two national religions was the reformation's principal legacy to modern Germany.
Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany
Title | Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany PDF eBook |
Author | R. W. Scribner |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 1988-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0826431003 |
The Reformation has traditionally been explained in terms of theology, the corruption of the church and the role of princes. R.W. Scribner, while not denying the importance of these, shifts the context of study of the German Reformation to an examination of popular beliefs and behaviour, and of the reactions of local authorities to the problems and opportunities for social as well as religious reform. This book brings together a coherent body of work that has appeared since 1975, including two entirely new essays and two previously published only in German.
History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages
Title | History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes Janssen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | German literature |
ISBN |
Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation
Title | Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Wagner Oettinger |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 135191636X |
Over the first four decades of the Reformation, hundreds of songs written in popular styles and set to well-known tunes appeared across the German territories. These polemical songs included satires on the pope or on Martin Luther, ballads retelling historical events, translations of psalms and musical sermons. They ranged from ditties of one strophe to didactic Lieder of fifty or more. Luther wrote many such songs and this book contends that these songs, and the propagandist ballads they inspired, had a greater effect on the German people than Luther’s writings or his sermons. Music was a major force of propaganda in the German Reformation. Rebecca Wagner Oettinger examines a wide selection of songs and the role they played in disseminating Luther’s teachings to a largely non-literate population, while simultaneously spreading subversive criticism of Catholicism. These songs formed an intersection for several forces: the comfortable familiarity of popular music, historical theories on the power of music, the educational beliefs of sixteenth-century theologians and the need for sense of community and identity during troubled times. As Oettinger demonstrates, this music, while in itself simple, provides us with a new understanding of what most people in sixteenth-century Germany knew of the Reformation, how they acquired their knowledge and the ways in which they expressed their views about it. With full details of nearly 200 Lieder from this period provided in the second half of the book, Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation is both a valuable investigation of music as a political and religious agent and a useful resource for future research.
History of the German People from the First Authentic Annals to the Present Time
Title | History of the German People from the First Authentic Annals to the Present Time PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Sylvester Ellis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Germany |
ISBN |
The German Nation and Martin Luther
Title | The German Nation and Martin Luther PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Geoffrey Dickens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |