| German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650 Contributor(s): Brady, Thomas A., Jr. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521717787 ISBN-13: 9780521717786 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: 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 (Protestant and Catholic). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 274.305 |
| LCCN: 2008037135 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.60 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |