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The primacy of the postils : Catholics, Protestants, and the dissemination of ideas in early modern Germany /

Scholarship on the German Reformation has long equated preaching with Protestantism, just as many scholars have employed sermons but usually in supplemental and unsystematic ways. Based on an analysis of over 400 standard sermon collections (postils) produced by Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frymire, John M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 147.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Catholic preaching and the German Reformation? : postils and their production, 1520-1535
  • Re-invention, innovation, and reaction : Lutheran and Catholic postils, 1535-1555
  • Matches made in heaven : Lutheran postillators in the service of their princes, 1555-1620
  • Excursus : Calvinist postils? : the pragmatism of German Reformed postillators
  • Catholic Postillenfresser : postils, Catholic reform, and the Counter-Reformation
  • Correcting Catholicism : censorship, confessional consolidation, and the decline of homegrown postillators.