TY  - BOOK
AU  - Volkmar,Christoph
TI  - Catholic Reform in the Age of Luther: Duke George of Saxony and the Church, 1488-1525
T2  - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions Series
SN  - 9789004353862
AV  - DD801.S38 .V655 2017 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Preface to the German Edition -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Critical Survey of Scholarship -- Chapter 2 George of Saxony's Church Politics from a New Perspective -- Part 1 Church Governance and Catholic Reform before the Reformation (1488-ca. 1521) -- Chapter 3 Church Politics of German Princes in the Late Medieval Empire -- Chapter 4 The Wettin Tradition of Reform -- Chapter 5 George of Saxony (1471-1539) as a Reformer of the Church -- Chapter 6 Papacy and Council -- Chapter 7 The Empire -- Chapter 8 Bishops and Cathedral Chapters -- Chapter 9 The Ecclesiastical Court System -- Chapter 10 The Regular Clergy -- Chapter 11 The Lower Clergy -- Chapter 12 The Laity -- Chapter 13 Printing and the Public before Luther -- Chapter 14 Summary and Discussion -- Part 2 The Clash with the Early Reformation (1517-1525) -- Chapter 15 George of Saxony and Martin Luther: A New Look at an Old Enmity -- Chapter 16 "The Damned Lutheran Sect": How George of Saxony Saw the Evangelical Movement -- Chapter 17 Church Politics against the Reformation in the Empire (1522-1525) -- Chapter 18 Outlawing the Reformation -- Chapter 19 Territorial Politics against Evangelical Pastors -- Chapter 20 Territorial Politics against Evangelical Monks -- Chapter 21 Territorial Politics against Evangelical Subjects -- Chapter 22 Preaching -- Chapter 23 Printing -- Chapter 24 Reform Instead of Reformation -- Chapter 25 Church Politics against the Reformation: Successes, Limits, Perspectives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - In his portrait of Duke George of Saxony (1471-1539) Christoph Volkmar offers a fresh perspective on the early Reformation in Germany. Long before the Council of Trent, this book traces the origins of Catholic Reform to the very neighborhood of Wittenberg
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