Title: Reformations old and new : essays on the socio-economic impact of religious change, c. 1470-1630 /
Authors: Kümin, Beat A.
Publisher: Scolar Press ; Ashgate Pub. Co.,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Reformation Europe; Europe Social conditions; Europe Social conditions
Abstract: "This collection examines the 'practical' impact of religious change in Central and North-Western Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. It focuses on the effects of reform on clergy, church resources, ecclesiastical patronage, education, and poor relief. The title reflects the fundamental conclusion that there was no one monolithic experience of 'Reformation', that initiatives were taken for very different reasons, and that they displayed innovative as well as conservative features." "While offering a great range of original research and subject matter, all of the contributors devote particular attention to three main themes: the blend between continuity and change, the share of religious factors in socio-economic developments, and the identification of winners and losers. Taken together, the essays illustrate the scarcity of unambiguous trends, the tenacity of socio-economic structures, the modification of religious dogma by the 'real' world, and the conspicuous benefits of religious change for the social elites."--Jacket.
Contents: Reform in the parishes of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century North Brabant / Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld -- The reforms of Count Eberhard of Wurttemberg: 'confessionalization' in the fifteenth century / Peter Dykema -- John Hooper's visitation and examination of the clergy in the diocese of Gloucester, 1551 / D.G. Newcombe -- The sequestration of the Hessian monasteries / Richard Cahill -- The fiscal Reformation: clerical taxation and opposition in Henrician England / Patrick R.N. Carter -- Episcopal patronage and social mobility in late medieval and Reformation Denmark / Per Ingesman -- The dispersal of monastic patronage in East Yorkshire, 1520-90 / Peter Marshall -- Patronage, Herrschaft, and confession: the Upper-Palatinate nobility and the Counter Reformation / Trevor Johnson -- Continuity and competition: Luther's call for educational reform in the light of medieval precedents / Markus Wriedt -- The Reformation and the evolution of Geneva's schools / William G. Naphy -- Financing education: the Zurich approach, 1550-1620 / Karin Maag -- The burden of benevolence: poor relief and parish finance in early modern Emden / Timothy Fehler -- Poor relief and the exile communities / Andrew Spicer.