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N.F.S. Grundtvig : a life recalled : an anthology of biographical source-texts
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ISBN: 8779340075 9788779340077 8772889691 9788772889696 Year: 2008 Publisher: Aarhus : Oakville, CT : Aarhus University Press ; D. Brown Book Co. [distributor],

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N.F.S. Grundtvig, one of the chief shapers of Denmark's modern identity and still an active force in Danish social, political and religious life, was an outstanding intellect of 19th century Europe. He was the contemporary and dialectical adversary of Søren Kierkegaard, but his copiously documented life's work has nevertheless remained - for want of adequate translations - little known to the English-speaking world.As the new-Europe reviews the old traditional cultural canon, reflective of the most dominant nations, interest grows in Grundtvig as educationalist, theologian and churchman, histo


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Jenatsch's axe : social boundaries, identity, and myth in the era of the Thirty Years' War
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ISBN: 1283011263 9786613011268 1580467431 158046565X 1580462766 Year: 2008 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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This study meticulously traces the social boundaries that characterized seventeenth-century Europe - region, religion, social state, and kinship - by analyzing a distinctive life that crossed them all. During the turbulent events of Europe's Thirty Years' War, both ruthlessness and adaptability were crucial ingredients for success. In this engaging volume, Randolph C. Head traces the career of an extraordinarily adaptable and ruthless figure, George Jenatsch (1596-1639). Born a Protestant pastor's son, Jenatsch's career took him from the clergy to the military to the nobility. A passionate Calvinist in his youth, he converted to Catholicism and prudence as his power grew. A native speaker of the Romansh language, he crossed the boundaries of language and local loyalty in his service to France, Venice, and his own people. Violence marked every turning point of his life. After fleeing the 'Holy Massacre' of Protestants in the Valtellina in 1620, Jenatsch helped assassinate the powerful Pompeius von Planta, in 1621, using an axe. He killed his commanding officer in a duel in 1629, and his own life ended in a tavern in 1639 when he was murdered - with an axe - by a man dressed as a bear. After his death, myth took over. Rumors spread that Jenatsch was killed by the same axe that he had wielded on von Planta - and from there the story only got better, culminating in Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's celebrated 1876 novel, 'Jurg Jenatsch.' This study meticulously traces the social boundaries that characterized seventeenth-century Europe - region, religion, social state, and kinship - by analyzing a distinctive life that crossed them all. Professor Randolph C. Head teaches European history at the University of California, Riverside and is the author of 'Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons'.


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Dictionnaire des pasteurs dans la France du XVIIIe siècle
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ISBN: 9782745316837 2745316834 Year: 2008 Volume: 45 Publisher: Paris Honoré Champion

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Recensement des pasteurs qui ont exercé leur ministère en France entre la révocation de l'édit de Nantes (1685) et les articles organiques (1802), et qui ont contribué à maintenir la foi réformée en France. Chacune des notices indique des renseignements relatifs à l'état civil, les études suivies, la carrière pastorale, les oeuvres du pasteur, une liste de sources et une bibliographie.

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