Baroque piety
Subtitle: religion, society, and music in Leipzig, 1650-1750
By: Tanya Kevorkian.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780754654902
Subjects: Public worship -- Germany -- Leipzig -- History -- 17th century.; Public worship -- Germany -- Leipzig -- History -- 18th century.; Music -- Germany -- Leipzig -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Music -- Social aspects.; Music -- Germany -- Leipzig -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Music -- Religious aspects.; Piety.; Leipzig (Germany) -- Church history -- 17th century.; Leipzig (Germany) -- Church history -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Congregants' everyday practices: The experience of the service ; Seating the religious public : church pews and society; value: The producers: The city council, clerics, and ordinary inhabitants ; The Dresden court and the consistories ; Leipzig's cantors : status, politics and the adiaphora; value: The pietist alternative: Sociability and religious protest : the collegia pietatis of 1689-1690 ;The pietist shadow network; value: The construction boom and beyond: Social change and public religious life ; Conclusion : Baroque and beyond.