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Title Orthodoxies and heterodoxies in early modern German culture : order and creativity, 1500-1750 / edited by Randolph C. Head, Daniel Christensen
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Studies in Central European histories, 1547-1217 ; v. 42
Studies in Central European histories ; v. 42. 1547-1217
Contents Introduction: Orthodoxies and heterodoxies in the early modern German experience / Randolph C. Head and Daniel Christensen -- From the history of religions to the history of 'religion': the late Reformation and the challenge to sui generis religion / Nathan Baruch Rein -- Orthodoxy and variation: the role of adiaphorism in early modern Protestantism / Markus Friedrich -- Dreams, standards of knowledge and orthodoxy in Germany in the sixteenth century / Claire Gantet -- Religious, confessional and cultural conflicts among neighbors: observations on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Thomas Kaufmann -- Editing Italian music for Lutheran Germany / Susan Lewis Hammond -- God's plan for the Swiss Confederation: Heinrich Bullinger, Jakob Rus and their uses of historical myth in Reformation Zurich / Hildegard Elisabeth Keller -- Why did seventeenth-century estates address the jurisdiction of their princes as fatherlands?: War, territorial absolutism and duties to the fatherland in seventeenth-century German political discourse / Robert von Friedeburg -- The exemplary painting of Hans Burgkmair the Elder: history and the Munich court of Wilhelm IV / Ashley West -- 'Vom dem an Königl. Preussischen Hofe abgeschafften Cermoniel': monarchical representation and court ceremony in Frederick William I's Prussia / Benjamin Marschke -- Ambiguities of silence: the provocation of the void for Baroque culture / Claudia Benthien
Summary Interdisciplinary essays on early modern Germany that address orthodoxy and its challenges in religion, politics, and the arts. Confronting the transformation of normative canons after the Reformation, the essays investigate authority and knowledge in an era of shifting cultural foundations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Christian sects -- Germany -- History
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Christian sects
Religion
Kultur
Konfessionalisierung
Rechtgläubigkeit
Kontroverstheologie
Orthodoxie.
Heterodoxe stromingen.
SUBJECT Germany -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054473
Subject Germany
Deutschland
Duitsland.
Genre/Form History
Church history
Form Electronic book
Author Head, Randolph Conrad.
Christensen, Daniel Eric.
ISBN 9789047431640
9047431642
1282602705
9781282602700
9786612602702
6612602708