TY  - BOOK
AU  - Close,Christopher W.
TI  - The negotiated Reformation: imperial cities and the politics of urban reform, 1525-1550 
SN  - 9780521760201
AV  - BR307 .C66 2009eb
U1  - 274.3/06 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Reformation
KW  - Germany
KW  - Imperial cities (Holy Roman Empire)
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Reichsstadt
KW  - swd
KW  - 1517-1648
KW  - Church history
KW  - Süddeutschland
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index; Consultation and the urban hierarchy -- Imperial cities and collective politics -- Preachers, consultation, and the spread of urban reform in southern Germany -- The urban reformation in Donauwörth -- The urban reformation in Kaufbeuren -- Negotiation and the rural reformation in eastern Swabia -- Eastern Swabia and the Schmalkaldic War
N2  - Utilizing evidence from numerous imperial cities, this book offers a new explanation for the spread and survival of urban reform during the sixteenth century. By analyzing the operation of regional political constellations, it reveals a common process of negotiation that shaped the Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire. It reevaluates traditional models of reform that leave unexplored the religious implications of flexible systems of communication and support among cities. Such networks influenced urban reform in fundamental ways, affecting how Protestant preachers moved from city to city, as w
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