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Catholic Belief and Survival in Late Sixteenth-Century Vienna - The Case of Georg Eder (1523-87) (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Catholic Belief and Survival in Late Sixteenth-Century Vienna - The Case of Georg Eder (1523-87) (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
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Dr Georg Eder was an extraordinary figure who rose from humble
origins to hold a number of high positions at Vienna University and
the city's Habsburg court between 1552 and 1584. His increasingly
uncompromising Catholicism eventually placed him at odds, however,
with many influential figures around him, not least the
confessionally moderate Habsburg Emperor, Maximillian II. Pivoting
around a dramatic incident in 1573, when Eder's ferocious
anti-Lutheran polemic, the Evangelical Inquisition, fell under
sharp Imperial condemnation, this book investigates three key
aspects of his career. It examines Eder's position as a Catholic in
the predominantly Protestant Vienna of his day; the public
expression of Eder's Catholicism and the strong Jesuit influence on
the same; and Eder's rescue and subsequent survival as a lay
advocate of Catholic reform, largely through the alternative
protection of the Habsburgs' rivals, the Wittelsbach Dukes of
Bavaria. Based on a wide variety of printed and manuscript
material, this study contributes to existing historiography by
reconstructing the career of one of late sixteenth-century Vienna's
most prominent figures. In a broader sense it also adds
significantly to the wider canon of Reformation history by
re-examining the nature and extent of Catholicism at the Viennese
court in the latter half of the sixteenth century. It concludes by
emphasising the importance of influential laity such as Eder in
advancing the cause of Catholic reform, and challenges the
prevalent portrayal of the sixteenth-century Catholic laity as an
anonymous and largely passive group who merely responded to the
ministries of others.
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