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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)1975.Description: xi, 237 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
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Contents:
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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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BR305.2.O9 1975 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923000238739

Includes bibliographies and index.

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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