The Counter-Reformation in the Villages: Religion and Reform in the Bishopric of Speyer, 1560-1720

Located in the middle Rhine valley, the Bishopric of Speyer was a confessionally diverse, primarily rural region dotted with villages and several small cities. In this book, Marc R. Forster reconstructs and analyzes the history of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in this one German bishopric from th...

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1. Verfasser: Forster, Marc (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:Located in the middle Rhine valley, the Bishopric of Speyer was a confessionally diverse, primarily rural region dotted with villages and several small cities. In this book, Marc R. Forster reconstructs and analyzes the history of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in this one German bishopric from the later sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.Drawing on a wide variety of archival sources, including visitation reports, Cathedral Chapter minutes, and court records, he examines the impact of the reforms of the Council of Trent on Protestant/Catholic relations, on the nature of popular religion, and on the relationship between the village clergy and their parishioners. He demonstrates that the strong confessional loyalties that characterized the villages of the bishopric by about 1700 were rooted in communal loyalty to traditional, pre-Tridentine Catholicism, and that the episcopal hierarchy was also highly traditional and concerned primarily with local issues. As a result, Catholic authorities were reluctant to enforce "reformed" Catholicism, with its emphasis on a celibate and educated clergy and a disciplined and moral laity. This hesitant policy contrasted sharply with the determined effort of the region's Calvinist rulers to suppress traditional religious practices
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (288 pages) 2 maps
ISBN:9781501734632
DOI:10.7591/9781501734632

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