Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany

Lindau, 1520-1628
2002
ISBN: 978-0-333-73144-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

Reihe: Early Modern History: Society and Culture

The story of conflict in an island community offers a valuable case study for the analysis of early modern German political culture. Investigations range from interpersonal relations to dynamics of civic church and imperial government. Chronicled throughout are the interactions of two opposing principles in modern society 'secular' vs 'spiritual' and 'public' vs 'private'. These are found to operate both discursively and institutionally, and are deployed to help establish 'sovereign authority' ( Obrigkeit ), as well as to articulate resistance in the form of 'bourgeois republican ideology'.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolfart, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Figures Introduction The 'Hows' and 'Whys' Considered: Then and Now Historiographical Contours The Macro-political Contexts in Lindau The Micro-Politics of Interpersonal Relations in Lindau A Harvest of Bureaucracy: Practical Politics in Lindau After the Uprising: 'Obrigkeit' Regained Conclusions Index

Über Autor(innen)

JOHANNES C. WOLFART is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.