Portions of Chapters 2 and 6 were originally published in “Triplets: The Holy Roman Empire’s Birthing of Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformed in 1648,” in Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany, editors Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer and Joel F. Harrington (Oxford: Berghahn, 2019), 62–84.
Portions of Chapters 6 and 8 were originally published in “Divided By Toleration: Paradoxical Effects of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia and Multiconfessionalism,” in Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History vol. 106 (2015): 290–313.
Cover illustration: The church in Wolfshausen, likely built in the eleventh century, along with surviving historic gravestones and the Linden tree (left) on the churchyard. Image: Hydro/Wikimedia Commons.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mayes, David Christopher, author.
Title: Christian history in rural Germany : transcending the Catholic and Protestant narratives / by David Mayes.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] | Series: Studies in Central European histories, 1547-1217 ; volume 72 | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022045497 (print) | LCCN 2022045498 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004526488 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004526495 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Christians–Germany–Hesse–History. | Peasants–Religious life–Germany–Hesse–History. | Rural population–Germany–Hesse–History. | Communalism–Religious aspects–Christianity–History. | Hesse (Germany)–Church history. | Hesse (Germany)–Religious life and customs.
Classification: LCC BR857.H4 M35 2023 (print) | LCC BR857.H4 (ebook) | DDC 284/.3094341–dc23/eng/20221006
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