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Magistrates, madonnas and miracles : the Counter Reformation in the Upper Palatinate
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- Creator
- Trevor Johnson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xv, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780754664802, 0754664805
- OCLC
- ocn276274631
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-349) and index.
- pt. 1. The Palatinate deformed -- Forges, fortresses and farms : the Obere Pfalz in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- A Protestant land, 1556-1621 -- pt. 2. The Palatinate informed -- "The odious name of a reformation" : biconfessional discontents -- "Wolves among the flock" : conversion, emigration, and resistance -- "The salt of the earth" : clerical restoration and renewal -- The return of the religious -- pt. 3. The Palatinate reformed -- Shaping a Catholic society -- "Lest such devotion should fall into decline" : sacraments, sacramentals, and the sacred image -- "All things to all" : reclaiming the saints -- "Mountains of grace" : the sacred enshrined -- The devil in the Oberpfalz
Subjects
- Catholic Church -- Germany -- Oberpfalz -- History -- 16th century.
- Catholic Church -- Germany -- Oberpfalz -- History -- 17th century.
- Counter-Reformation -- Germany -- Oberpfalz.
- Reformation -- Germany -- Oberpfalz.
- Oberpfalz (Germany) -- Church history.
- Oberpfalz (Germany) -- Religious life and customs.
- Oberpfalz (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
- Oberpfalz (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 17th century.