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Magistrates, Madonnas and Miracles - The Counter Reformation in the Upper Palatinate (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Magistrates, Madonnas and Miracles - The Counter Reformation in the Upper Palatinate (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
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In 1621, in one of the earliest campaigns of the Thirty Years' War,
the South German principality of the Upper Palatinate was invaded
and annexed by Maximilian of Bavaria, director of the Catholic
League. In the subsequent years the eyes of Europe looked to the
fate of this erstwhile hub of the 'Calvinist international', as
Maximilian steadily moved to convert its population to Catholicism.
This study is the first account in English to focus on this
important instance of forced conversion and the first account in
any language to place the political impact of the Thirty Years' War
into the broader context of the Upper-Palatinate's religious
culture examined over the longue duree, from the later sixteenth to
the mid-eighteenth centuries. The book analyses the rich
unpublished sources of church and state from Bavarian and Roman
archives, as well as printed texts in varied genres to reconstruct
the region's sacred system and to gauge the effectiveness of the
campaign of conversion. This allows the study to address questions
of how the re-catholicisation was achieved, how a religious culture
infused with the spirit of the Counter Reformation developed and
how this change shaped the identity of its people. More than this,
however, the book also uses the Upper Palatinate case-study to draw
broader conclusions about the strengths and limitations of the
Confessional model, and suggests other ways of looking at religious
change and identity formation in early modern Europe which embraces
popular religious culture and voluntary religion, as well coercion.
As such the book offers much, not only to scholars of early modern
Germany, but to all with an interest in the formation, adoption and
imposition of religious identity during this period.
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