The Reformation in the Cities

The Reformation in the Cities
Author: Steven E. Ozment
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300024968

"A bold synthesis of intellectual and social history which explains the appeal of Protestantism to the German and Swiss cities, the media of its communication, and the means of its establishment."--Religious Studies Review "This book is a stimulating addition to the recent work in urban history, and it offers a new and thought-provoking perspective on the teachings and appeal of early Protestantism."--History "Ozment very masterfully combines the history of ideas and social history in a work of exacting scholarship and persuasive argumentation. It will no doubt become a seminal work in its field."--The Annals "This fine study is a pleasure to read, shows an excellent understanding of the late medieval scene, and presents convincing evidence that magistrates and city council leaders were not the 'motors of reform' in the cities of Germany and Switzerland.... There is nothing in print in English that is comparable."--Choice "A work of unusual interest and value. . . . Essential reading for all students of the Reformation."--New Review of Books and Religion

The Reformation in English Towns, 1500-1640

The Reformation in English Towns, 1500-1640
Author: Patrick Collinson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 335
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312214258

Case studies and thematic studies redress two balances at once: to tell the story of what the Reformation did for the towns of England, and of what the towns did for the Reformation.

The Negotiated Reformation

The Negotiated Reformation
Author: Christopher W. Close
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2009-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521760208

This book offers a new explanation for the spread of urban reform during the sixteenth century, arguing that systems of communication between cities proved crucial for the Reformation's development. This hypothesis explains not only how the Reformation spread to almost every imperial city in southern Germany, but also how it survived attempts to repress religious reform.

Communal Reformation

Communal Reformation
Author: Peter Blickle
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780391037304

Communal Reformation is the most original and provocative book to appear in its field in the past quarter-century. It met with an enthusiastic response, particularly in England and the United States, when first published in Germany in 1985 and is now available in translation. Peter Blickle's groundbreaking study, which is intended for scholars and students interested in the history of pre-modern Europe, the development of Germany, the history of Christianity, and historical sociology, reconstructs the connection between the crisis of rural society at the end of the Middle Ages, the great Peasants' War of 1525, and the reformation as a social movement. Blickle focuses on southern Germany, Switzerland, and Austria in the later Middle Ages and Early Modern eras (roughly 1400 to 1600), though his work has important implications for the social and religious history of Europe as a whole.

Rulers, Religion, and Riches

Rulers, Religion, and Riches
Author: Jared Rubin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2017-02-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 110703681X

This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.

The Reformation and the Towns in England

The Reformation and the Towns in England
Author: Robert Tittler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198207184

This analysis of the secular impact of the Reformation examines the changes within English towns from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century.

Pagans and Christians in the City

Pagans and Christians in the City
Author: Steven D. Smith
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467451487

Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.

The Reformation in English Towns, 1500-1640

The Reformation in English Towns, 1500-1640
Author: John Craig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 339
Release: 1998-08-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1349268321

This volume seeks to address a relatively neglected subject in the field of English reformation studies: the reformation in its urban context. Drawing on the work of a number of historians, this collection of essays will seek to explore some of the dimensions of that urban stage and to trace, using a mixture of detailed case studies and thematic reflections, some of the ways in which religious change was both effected and affected by the activities of townsmen and women.

The Age of Reform 1250-1550

The Age of Reform 1250-1550
Author: Steven Ozment
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 1980-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300186681

“A masterful . . . intellectual and religious history of late medieval and Reformation Europe.”—Christianity Today"A learned, humane, and expressive book."—Gerald Strauss, Renaissance QuarterlyThe seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the Reformations—both Protestant and Catholic—of the sixteenth century. He elucidates with great clarity the complex philosophical and theological issues that inspired antagonistic schools, traditions, and movements from Aquinas to Calvin. This masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period illuminates the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society.

Shock Cities

Shock Cities
Author: Harold L. Platt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 626
Release: 2005-05-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0226670767

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