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Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany

Lindau, 1520-1628

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture (EMH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction

    • Johannes C. Wolfart
    Pages 1-8
  3. Historiographical Contours

    • Johannes C. Wolfart
    Pages 35-63
  4. The Macro-Political Contexts in Lindau

    • Johannes C. Wolfart
    Pages 64-92
  5. A Harvest of Bureaucracy:Practical Politics in Lindau

    • Johannes C. Wolfart
    Pages 121-159
  6. After the Uprising: Obrigkeit Regained

    • Johannes C. Wolfart
    Pages 160-171
  7. Conclusions

    • Johannes C. Wolfart
    Pages 172-174
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 175-261

About this book

The story of conflict in an island community offers a valuable case study for the analysis of early modern German political culture. Investigations range from interpersonal relations to dynamics of civic church and imperial government. Chronicled throughout are the interactions of two opposing principles in modern society 'secular' vs 'spiritual' and 'public' vs 'private'. These are found to operate both discursively and institutionally, and are deployed to help establish 'sovereign authority' ( Obrigkeit ), as well as to articulate resistance in the form of 'bourgeois republican ideology'.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Religion, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Johannes C. Wolfart

About the author

JOHANNES C. WOLFART is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

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