Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Early Modern German Culture

Order and Creativity 1550-1750
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16276-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 674 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

This interdisciplinary collection of essays about early modern Germany addresses the tensions, both fruitful and destructive, between normative systems of order on the one hand, and a growing diversity of practices on the other. Individual essays address crucial struggles over religious orthodoxy after the Reformation, the transformation of political loyalties through propaganda and literature, and efforts to redefine both canonical forms and new challenges to them in literature, music, and the arts. Bringing together the most exciting papers from the 2005 conference of Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär, an international research and conference group, the collection offers fresh comparative insights into the terrifying as well as exhilarating predicaments that the people of the Holy Roman Empire faced between the Reformation and the Enlightenment.

Contributors include: Claudia Benthien, Robert von Friedeburg, Markus Friedrich, Claire Gantet, Susan Lewis Hammond, Thomas Kaufmann, Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, Benjamin Marschke, Nathan Baruch Rein, and Ashley West.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Head, Randolph C.

Christensen, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

INTRODUCTION
1. Orthodoxies and heterodoxies in the early modern German experience, Randolph C. Head & Daniel Christensen

PART I. EPISTEMOLOGIES
2. From the history of religions to the history of 'religion': the late Reformation and the challenge to sui generis religion, Nathan Baruch Rein
3. Orthodoxy and variation: The role of adiaphorism in early modern Protestantism, Markus Friedrich
4. Dreams, standards of knowledge and orthodoxy in Germany in the sixteenth century, Claire Gantet

PART II. PRACTICES
5. Religious, confessional and cultural conflicts among neighbors: Observations on the sixteenth- and seventeenth Centuries, Thomas Kaufmann
6. Editing Italian music for Lutheran Germany, Susan Lewis Hammond
7. God's plan for the Swiss Confederation: Heinrich Bullinger, Jakob Ruf and their uses of historical myth in Reformation Zurich, Hildegard Elisabeth Keller
8. Why did seventeenth-century estates address the jurisdictions of their princes as fatherlands? War, territorial absolutism and duties to the fatherland in seventeenth-century German political discourse, Robert von Friedeburg

PART III. LIMITATIONS
9. The exemplary painting of Hans Burgkmair the Elder: History at the Munich court of Wilhelm IV, Ashley West
10. 'Von dem am Königl. Preußischen Hofe abgeschafften Ceremoniel': Monarchical representation and court ceremony in Frederick William I's Prussia, Benjamin Marschke
11. Ambiguities of silence: The provocation of the void for Baroque culture, Claudia Benthien

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Randolph C. Head, Ph.D. (1992), University of Virginia, is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. His research on institutional culture in early modern Switzerland includes Early Modern Democracy in the Grisons (1995) and articles in major journals.

Daniel Christensen, Ph.D. (2004), University of California, Riverside, is Assistant Professor of History at Biola University. His research interests include the politics of epidemic disease in early modern Germany and the interplay of Christianity and politics in post-Reformation Germany.