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Religion, Political Culture, and the Emergence of Early Modern Society
Essays in German and Dutch History
Series: - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 50
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This volume of essays by Heinz Schilling represents his three main fields of interest in early modern European history. The first section of the book, entitled 'Urban Society and Reformation', deals with urban society in northern Germany and the Netherlands from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. The author discusses social structure and changes, the problems of religion and mentality as well as political culture and thinking. The second section, 'confessionalization and Second Reformation', treats the paradigm 'Confessionalization', which denotes a fundamental process of social change within Old European society during the second half of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. The third section, 'The Netherlands â the Pioneer Society of Early Modern Europe', deals with the Northern Netherlands as a model for early modern modernization and as a successful republican and 'bourgeois' alternative to the aristocratic Old European society.
The essays collected in this book were originally written in German and published over the last fifteen years. The articles have been revised and the notes have been updated. This volume gives a broader English-speaking audience the possibility to read Heinz Schilling's research. It also provides a concise collection of the author's writings for those readers who are already familiar with his studies.
The essays collected in this book were originally written in German and published over the last fifteen years. The articles have been revised and the notes have been updated. This volume gives a broader English-speaking audience the possibility to read Heinz Schilling's research. It also provides a concise collection of the author's writings for those readers who are already familiar with his studies.
Heinz Schilling, Professor of Modern History at the University of Giessen, (since 1982), Visiting Fellow Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1990), and Fellow in Residence of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (1992-1993). He has published extensively in German on the subject of early modern European history.
'This is a very important book for all students of the German Reformation, or at least for those who have not kept on top of current German scholarship...While Schilling is clearly a social historian, with a special interest in the key role of elites, he is very judicious in integrating this with religious, intellectual, political, and economic factors as appropriate.'
Lee Daniel Snyder, Church History, 1995.
'There is so much of value in this book...this is a fitting and substantial tribute to one of the most innovative and probing minds active in the field.'
Andrew Pettegree, English Historical Review, 1995.
Lee Daniel Snyder, Church History, 1995.
'There is so much of value in this book...this is a fitting and substantial tribute to one of the most innovative and probing minds active in the field.'
Andrew Pettegree, English Historical Review, 1995.