Magistrates, madonnas, and miracles
Subtitle: the Counter Reformation in the Upper Palatinate
By: Trevor Johnson.
Series: St. Andrews studies in Reformation history
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754664802
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Germany -- Oberpfalz -- History -- 16th century; Catholic Church -- Germany -- Oberpfalz -- History -- 17th century; Counter-Reformation -- Germany -- Oberpfalz; Reformation -- Germany -- Oberpfalz; Oberpfalz (Germany) -- Church history; Oberpfalz (Germany) -- Religious life and customs; Oberpfalz (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 16th century; Oberpfalz (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Palatinate deformed; title: Forges, fortresses and farms : the Obere Pfalz in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; title: A Protestant land, 1556-1621; title: pt. 2. The Palatinate informed; title: "The odious name of a reformation" : biconfessional discontents; title: "Wolves among the flock" : conversion, emigration, and resistance; title: "The salt of the earth" : clerical restoration and renewal; title: The return of the religious; title: pt. 3. The Palatinate reformed; title: Shaping a Catholic society; title: "Lest such devotion should fall into decline" : sacraments, sacramentals, and the sacred image; title: "All things to all" : reclaiming the saints; title: "Mountains of grace" : the sacred enshrined; title: The devil in the Oberpfalz.