The Reformation in the Cities; The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland

by Steven Ozment

• ISBN13: 9780300024968
• ISBN10: 0300024967
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1980-09-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction: Trends in Reformation Research	1	(14)
The Reformation in Medieval Perspective	2	(3)
The Reformation in Urban Perspective	5	(10)
Lay Religious Attitudes on the Eve of the Reformation	15	(32)
The Hazardous Enterprise of Typifying Late Medieval Religious Life	15	(7)
The Burden of Late Medieval Religion	22	(10)
Lay Restriction of Clerical Privileges	32	(6)
Lay Promotion of Preacherships	38	(4)
Iconoclasm: The Response of Anguished Lay Piety	42	(5)
The Original Protestant Message	47	(74)
The Assault on the Confessional	49	(7)
The Promises of Protestant Preachers	56	(18)
Escape From Episcopal Bureaucracy	56	(5)
A New Social Ethic	61	(6)
Farel's Sommaire	67	(7)
Lay Defenses of the Reformation	74	(10)
Lazarus Spengler	74	(5)
Jorg Vogeli	79	(5)
The Clergy As Citizens	84	(6)
Driving the Message Home: Popular Writers and Humorists	90	(26)
The Protestant ``Utopia'' of Eberlin von Gunzburg	91	(17)
The Exorcist: Thomas Murner and Pamphilus Gengenbach	108	(3)
Nicholas Manuel's Totenfresser	111	(5)
Conclusion	116	(5)
The Pattern of Reformation	121	(46)
A Magistrate's Reform?	121	(10)
The Tactics of Reform	131	(20)
Divine and Human Righteousness	131	(7)
Pacing the Reform	138	(7)
The Scripture Principle	145	(6)
From Pamphlet to Catechism and Church Ordinance: The Reformers as New Papists	151	(13)
Conclusion	164	(3)
Notes	167	(62)
Index	229