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The negotiated Reformation : imperial cities and the politics of urban reform, 1525-1550 / Christopher W. Close.

By: Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780521760201
  • 0521760208
  • 9780511641435
  • 0511641435
  • 9780511642050
  • 0511642059
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Negotiated Reformation.DDC classification:
  • 274.3/06 22
LOC classification:
  • BR307 .C66 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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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