These twenty-six essays examine urban, rural, national, and imperial histories in Early Modern Europe and abroad, and politics in Reformation Switzerland, Burgundy, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Author(s): Christopher Ocker, Michael Printy Peter Starenko, Peter Wallace
Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 128
Edition: 1
Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 657
Contents
......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Preface......Page 16
Bibliography of the Works of Thomas A. Brady, Jr......Page 20
PART ONE: COMMUNITIES......Page 28
The City-State in the German-speaking Lands (Tom Scott)......Page 30
The Topography of Sacred Space and the Representation of Social Groups: Confraternities in Strasbourg (Sabine von Heusinger)......Page 94
Ratsräson und Bürgersinn: Zur Führungsschicht der Reichsstadt Nördlingen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert (Ingrid Bátori)......Page 112
Portrait and Pageantry: New Idioms in the Interaction Between City and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg (Heidi Eberhardt Bate)......Page 148
,Hohe Schule' oder Universität? Zur Pfarrerausbildung in Bern im 16. Jahrhundert (Beat Immenhauser)......Page 170
Let the Punishment Fit the Crime: The Social Miracle and Criminal Sentencing in Early Modern Leiden (C. Nathan Bartlett and Laura Ford Cruz)......Page 206
Buchner at the Font: Godparenting and Network Building in Seventeenth-Century Wilno (David Frick)......Page 232
Taverns and Inns in the German Countryside: Male Honor and Public Space (Marc R. Forster)......Page 256
Thinking with the Thurgau: Political Pamphlets from the Villmergerkrieg and the Construction of Biconfessional Politics in Switzerland and Europe (Randolph C. Head)......Page 266
Of Liberty and the Upstalsboom: Urban-Rural Alliances and Symbols of Freedom in Early Modern East Frisia (David M. Luebke)......Page 286
Success and Failure: Reflections on the Effectiveness of Early Modern Poor Relief in the Orphanages of Augsburg (Thomas Max Safley)......Page 310
PART TWO: POLITIES......Page 342
The Politics of History in the Swiss Reformation (Regula Schmid)......Page 344
"And Blood Rained from the Sky": Creating a Burgundian Identity after the Fall of Burgundy (Kathryn A. Edwards)......Page 372
Ruling Class and Regime in an Ecclesiastical Territory: The Case of Salem (Katherine Brun)......Page 386
"My bitter comedie": The Treason Trial of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton and the Rule of Law in Tudor England (Narasingha P. Sil)......Page 408
Burgher Lenders and Public Credit: The Role of Town Governments in Holland's State Debt, 1572–1588 (James D. Tracy)......Page 434
Social Control and Social Justice under Maximilian I of Bavaria (r. 1598–1651) (Sigrun Haude)......Page 450
Nachbarn and Voisins: Changing Political Relations in the Upper Rhine Valley in the Wake of the Thirty Years' War (Peter G. Wallace)......Page 468
PART THREE: NATIONS AND EMPIRES......Page 484
Rejecting an Emperor: Hussites and Sigismund (Jeanne E. Grant)......Page 486
The Union of Calmar —Nordic Great Power or Northern German Outpost? (Steinar Imsen)......Page 498
Some Peculiarities of Empire in the Early Modern Era (Carina L. Johnson)......Page 518
Zwischen Spätmittelalter und Reformation – politischer Föderalismus im Reich der Reformationszeit (Gabriele Haug-Moritz)......Page 540
Creating a Protestant Constantine: Martin Bucer's De Regno Christi and the Foundations of English Imperial Political Theology (Thomas Dandelet)......Page 566
Frühmoderne Staatsbildung und die Entstehung des neuzeitlichen Mächte-Europa (Heinz Schilling)......Page 578
Faith in Empire: Religious Sources of Legitimacy for Expansionist Early-Modern States (Luke Clossey)......Page 598
Atlantic Exchange in History (Wolfgang Reinhard)......Page 616
List of Contributors......Page 634
Index of Names of Persons and Places......Page 636
Index of Subjects......Page 649
