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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461237203321

Autore

Scribner Robert W.

Titolo

Popular culture and popular movements in reformation Germany / / R.W. Scribner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Ronceverte, WV, U.S.A. : , : Hambledon Press, , 1987

ISBN

1-283-20172-0

9786613201720

0-8264-3100-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (379 p.)

Disciplina

943/.03

Soggetti

Reformation - Germany

Popular culture - Germany - History - 16th century

Electronic books.

Germany Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Cosmic Order and Daily Life: Sacred and Secular in Pre-Industrial German Society; 2 Ritual and Popular Belief in Catholic Germany at the Time of the Reformation; 3 Oral Culture and the Diffusion of Reformation Ideas; 4 Reformation, Carnival and the World Turned Upside-Down; 5 Ritual and Reformation; 6 Preachers and People in the German Towns; 7 The Reformation as a Social Movement; 8 Social Control and the Possibility of an Urban Reformation; 9 Civic Unity and the Reformation in Erfurt; 10 Why was there no Reformation in Cologne?

11 Anticlericalism and the German Reformation12 Sorcery, Superstition and Society: the Witch of Urach, 1529; 13 Demons, Defecation and Monsters: Luther's 'Depiction of the Papacy' (1545); 14 Luther Myth: a Popular Historiography of the Reformer; 15 Incombustible Luther: the Image of the Reformer in Early Modern Germany; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Reformation has traditionally been explained in terms of theology, the corruption of the church and the role of princes. R.W. Scribner, while not denying the importance of these, shifts the context of study of the German Reformation to an examination of popular beliefs and



behaviour, and of the reactions of local authorities to the problems and opportunities for social as well as religious reform. This book brings together a coherent body of work that has appeared since 1975, including two entirely new essays and two previously published only in German.