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The political culture of absolute monarchy that structured French society into the eighteenth century is generally believed to have emerged late in the sixteenth century. This new interpretation of the origins of French absolutism, however, connects the fifteenth-century conciliar reform movement in the Catholic Church to the practice of absolutism by demonstrating that the monarchy appropriated political models derived from canon law. Tyler Lange reveals how the reform of the Church offered a crucial motive and pretext for a definitive shift in the practice and conception of monarchy, and explains how this first French Reformation enabled Francis I and subsequent monarchs to use the Gallican Church as a useful deposit of funds and judicial power. In so doing, the book identifies the theoretical origins of later absolutism and the structural reasons for the failure of French Protestantism.

Christian church history --- History of France --- anno 1500-1599 --- Reformation --- Monarchy --- Church and state --- History --- Influence --- Protestant Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- Influence. --- History.

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Sermons are an invaluable source for our knowledge of religious history and sociology, anthropology, and the mental landscape of men and women in pre-modern Europe, of what they were taught and what they practiced. But how did an individual process the preached message from the pulpit? How exactly do written sermons duplicate the preached Word? Do they at all? The 11 leading scholars who have contributed to this book do not offer uniform answers or an all-encompassing study of preaching in the Reformations and early modern period in Europe. They do, however, provide new insights on Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed preaching in Western and Central Europe. Part One examines changes in sermon structure, style and content in Christian sermons from the thematic sermon typical of the Middle Ages to the wide variety of later preaching styles. Catholic preaching after Trent proves not to be monolithic and intolerant, but a hybrid of forms past and present, applied as needed to particular situations. Lutheran homiletic theory is traced from Luther and through Melanchthon, the intention of the sermon being to transform the worship service based on exegesis of Scripture. In Reformed worship, the expository sermon, often given on a daily basis with a continuing exegesis, was designed to communicate the tenets of the faith in terms that the laity could understand (“plain style”). Part Two deals with the social history of preaching in France, where preachers often incited their hearers to attack human beings or holy objects or were themselves attacked; in Italy, where preaching became a collective and “home-grown” product; in early modern Germany, where the authorities strove for uniformity of preaching practice and the preacher was seen as a moral guardian; in Switzerland, where leaders from Zwingli on sought to bring religious practice, conduct, and government in line with biblical teaching and propagated a pastoral vision of preaching; in England, where after the Reformation preachers became the indispensable agents of salvation, but clergy and congregations were often ill-prepared for the task; in Scandinavia, where post-Reformation sermons have a clear didactic aim, teaching obedience to the authorities; and in the Low Countries, characterised by its numerous denominations, all with their own churches and particular practices in terms of preaching. The volume ends with a consideration of the influence of late medieval preaching on the Reformation, concluding that the diversity of emphasis on how the practice of penance was preached (and received) very likely affected the appeal (or not) of the Lutheran/Reformed message in a given country. Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period is also published by Brill in paperback (ISBN 0 391 04203 3, still available)

Christian church history --- Christian pastoral theology --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Preaching --- Reformation. --- Christian preaching --- Homiletics --- Speaking --- Pastoral theology --- Public speaking --- Protestant Reformation --- Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- History. --- Religious aspects --- History

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The Quest for Compromise is an interdisciplinary study of the imperial court in late sixteenth-century Vienna, and a detailed examination of a fascinating moment of religious moderation. Against a backdrop of rising religious and confessional dogmatism, the Emperor Maximilian II (1564-1576) assembled a remarkable cast of courtiers who resisted extremes of both Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book investigates the rise and fall of an irenic movement through four individuals whose work at the imperial court reflected the ideals of religious compromise and moderation. An Italian artist (Jacopo Strada), a Silesian physician (Johannes Crato), a Dutch librarian (Hugo Blotius) and a German soldier (Lazarus von Schwendi) sought peace and accommodation through a wide range of cultural, intellectual and political activity.

Habsburg, House of. --- Religion and state --- Church history --- Christianity --- State and religion --- State, The --- History --- Religious aspects --- Reformation. --- Counter-Reformation. --- Peace. --- Maximilian --- Holy Roman Empire --- Austria --- Politics and government --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- Anti-Reformation --- Church renewal --- Reformation --- Protestant Reformation --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- Maximiliaan --- Maximilianus II --- Arts and Humanities --- Maximilian II [Holy Roman Emperor] --- anno 1600-1699 --- Vienna --- Peace --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- Contre-Réforme --- Paix

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Carlo and Federico Borromeo achieved fame by turning Milan into the foremost laboratory of the Italian Counter-Reformation. This monograph interprets their programme of penitential discipline as a quest to reshape Lombard society by reaching into the souls of its inhabitants.

27 <45 MILANO> --- 940.23 --- -Counter-Reformation --- Auricular confession --- 940.23 Geschiedenis van Europa: Contra-reformatie--(1555-1618) --- Geschiedenis van Europa: Contra-reformatie--(1555-1618) --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Italië--MILANO --- Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Milan (Italy) --- Milan Region (Italy) --- -Milan Region (Italy) --- -Confession --- -Anti-Reformation --- Confession --- Counter-Reformation --- 098.1 --- 098.1 Verboden boeken --- Verboden boeken --- Anti-Reformation --- Church history --- Church renewal --- Reformation --- Church discipline --- Forgiveness of sin --- Absolution --- Penance --- Catholic Church&delete& --- History of doctrines --- Catholic Church. --- Milan (Archdiocese) --- Milan (Italy : Archdiocese : Catholic Church) --- History --- Catholic Church --- History of doctrines. --- 16th century --- 17th century --- Italy --- Catholic Church. - Archdiocese of Milan (Italy) - History - 16th century. --- Catholic Church. - Archdiocese of Milan (Italy) - History - 17th century. --- Confession - Catholic Church - History of doctrines. --- Counter-Reformation - Italy - Milan Region. --- Milan Region (Italy) - Church history - 16th century. --- Milan Region (Italy) - Church history - 17th century. --- Christian dogmatics --- Christian church history --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Milan

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This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both a general reformation of the Church before 1520 and a national reformation thereafter. The resulting settlement maintained the public peace through politically structured religious communities (confessions), thereby avoiding further religious strife and fixing the confessions into the Empire's constitution. The Germans' emergence into the modern era as a people having two national religions was the reformation's principal legacy to modern Germany.

Christian church history --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Reformation --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- Germany --- Allemagne --- Church history. --- History. --- Histoire religieuse --- Histoire --- -284.1 <43> "15" --- Protestant Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--Duitsland --"15" --- History --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- 284.1 <43> "15" --- Arts and Humanities