Orthodoxies and heterodoxies in early modern German culture : order and creativity, 1500-1750

Orthodoxies and heterodoxies in early modern German culture : order and creativity, 1500-1750 / edited by Randolph C. Head, Daniel Christensen.

Interdisciplinary essays on early modern Germany that address orthodoxy and its challenges in religion, politics, and the arts. Confronting the transformation of normative canons after the Reformation, the essays investigate authority and knowledge in an era of shifting cultural foundations.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Head, Randolph Conrad, Christensen, Daniel Eric
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:Studies in Central European histories ; v. 42.
Subjects:
Kirchengeschichte 1500-1750.
Geistesgeschichte 1500-1750.
Geschichte.
Geschichte 1500-1750.
Christian sects > Germany > History.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Christian sects
Religion
Kultur
Konfessionalisierung
Rechtgläubigkeit
Kontroverstheologie
Orthodoxie.
Heterodoxe stromingen.
Germany > Church history.
Germany
Deutschland
Duitsland.
History
Church history
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Orthodoxies and heterodoxies in the early modern German experience / Randolph C. Head and Daniel Christensen
  • From the history of religions to the history of 'religion': the late Reformation and the challenge to sui generis religion / Nathan Baruch Rein
  • Orthodoxy and variation: the role of adiaphorism in early modern Protestantism / Markus Friedrich
  • Dreams, standards of knowledge and orthodoxy in Germany in the sixteenth century / Claire Gantet
  • Religious, confessional and cultural conflicts among neighbors: observations on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Thomas Kaufmann
  • Editing Italian music for Lutheran Germany / Susan Lewis Hammond
  • God's plan for the Swiss Confederation: Heinrich Bullinger, Jakob Rus and their uses of historical myth in Reformation Zurich / Hildegard Elisabeth Keller
  • Why did seventeenth-century estates address the jurisdiction of their princes as fatherlands?: War, territorial absolutism and duties to the fatherland in seventeenth-century German political discourse / Robert von Friedeburg
  • The exemplary painting of Hans Burgkmair the Elder: history and the Munich court of Wilhelm IV / Ashley West
  • 'Vom dem an Königl. Preussischen Hofe abgeschafften Cermoniel': monarchical representation and court ceremony in Frederick William I's Prussia / Benjamin Marschke
  • Ambiguities of silence: the provocation of the void for Baroque culture / Claudia Benthien.

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