The Reformation in the cities : the appeal of Protestantism to sixteenth-century Germany and Switzerland /

Ozment, Steven E,

The Reformation in the cities : the appeal of Protestantism to sixteenth-century Germany and Switzerland / [print] Steven E. Ozment. - New Haven : Yale University Press, [(c)1975. - xi, 237 pages ; 22 cm.



1. Introduction : trends in Reformation research The Reformation in medieval perspective The Reformation in urban perspective 2. Lay religious attitudes on the eve of the Reformation The hazardous enterprise of typifying late medieval religious life The burden of late medieval religion Lay restriction of clerical privileges Lay promotion of preacherships Iconoclasm : the response of anguished lay piety 3. The original Protestant message The assault on the confessional The promises of Protestant preachers Escape from Episcopal bureaucracy A new social ethic Farel's Sommaire Lay defenses of the Reformation Lazarus Spengler Jorg Vogeli The clergy as citizens Driving the message home : popular writers and humorists The Protestant "Utopia" of Eberlin von Gunzburg The exorcist : Thomas Murner and Pamphilus Gengenbach Nicholas Manuel's Totenfresser Conclusion 4. The pattern of Reformation A magistrate's reform? -- The tactics of reform Divine and human righteousness Pacing the reform The scripture principle From pamphlet to catechism and church Ordinance : the reformers as new papists Conclusion.



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Reformation--Germany.
Reformation--Switzerland.
Protestantism.


Germany
Switzerland

BR305.2.R446 1975 BR305.2.O99.R446 1975

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