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King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther - The Reformation before Confessionalization (Hardcover)
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King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther - The Reformation before Confessionalization (Hardcover)
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The first major study of the early Reformation and the Polish
monarchy for over a century, this volume asks why Crown and church
in the reign of King Sigismund I (1506-1548) did not persecute
Lutherans. It offers a new narrative of Luther's dramatic impact on
this monarchy - which saw violent urban Reformations and the
creation of Christendom's first Lutheran principality by 1525 -
placing these events in their comparative European context. King
Sigismund's realm appears to offer a major example of
sixteenth-century religious toleration: the king tacitly allowed
his Hanseatic ports to enact local Reformations, enjoyed excellent
relations with his Lutheran vassal duke in Prussia, allied with
pro-Luther princes across Europe, and declined to enforce his own
heresy edicts. Polish church courts allowed dozens of suspected
Lutherans to walk free. Examining these episodes in turn, this
study does not treat toleration purely as the product of political
calculation or pragmatism. Instead, through close analysis of
language, it reconstructs the underlying cultural beliefs about
religion and church (ecclesiology) held by the king, bishops,
courtiers, literati, and clergy - asking what, at heart, did these
elites understood 'Lutheranism' and 'catholicism' to be? It argues
that the ruling elites of the Polish monarchy did not persecute
Lutheranism because they did not perceive it as a dangerous Other -
but as a variant form of catholic Christianity within an already
variegated late medieval church, where social unity was much more
important than doctrinal differences between Christians. Building
on John Bossy and borrowing from J.G.A. Pocock, it proposes a
broader hypothesis on the Reformation as a shift in the languages
and concept of orthodoxy.
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