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Author_Trevor Johnson
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Catholic League history
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Counter Reformation Upper Palatinate case study
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Early Modern East Central Europe
early modern Germany
Elector Maximilian
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forced religious conversion
Frederick III
freiburg
geistliche
Geistliche Sachen
Hans De Waardt
Holy Souls
Human Suffering
Lionel Rothkrug
oberpfalz
palatinate
parish
Peter Wolf
Pilgrimage Piety
priest
Princely Grace
religious identity formation
Rothenburg
sachen
sacred image veneration
Shrine Image
St John Nepomuk
St Walburga
Town Hall
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Von Bayern
Wittelsbach Dynasty
Wittelsbach Und Bayern
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754664802
- Weight: 839g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 durée, 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 The book analyses the rich unpublished sources of church and state from Bavarian and Roman archives, as well as printed texts in varied genres to reconstruct the region's sacred system and to gauge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.
Trevor Johnson is formally of the University of the West of England, UK.
