Between Opposition and Collaboration: Nobles, Bishops, and the German Reformations in the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg, 1555–1619BRILL, 09.09.2011 - 224 Seiten This study of the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg and its largely Protestant aristocracy demonstrates that shared family ties and traditional privilege could reduce religious based conflict. These findings raise fundamental questions about current interpretations of the Reformation era. Prince-bishops regularly appointed Lutheran nobles to administrative positions, and those Lutheran appointees served their Catholic overlords ably and loyally. Bamberg was a center for social interaction, business transactions, and career opportunities for aristocrats. As these nobles saw it, birthright and kinship ties made them suitable for service in the prince-bishopric. Catholic leaders concurred, confessional differences notwithstanding. This study tells the complicated story of how Lutheran nobles and their Catholic relatives struggled to maintain solidarity and cooperation during an era of religious strife and animosity |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
I Lay of the Land | 19 |
II The Protestant Reformation and Aristocratic Control of Bamberg | 44 |
III The Aristocratic Church and Resistance to Reform | 73 |
IV Protestant Officials as Agents of the CounterReformation | 106 |
V The CounterReformation and the Alienation of the Imperial Knights 15941599 | 136 |
VI Confession and the Limits of Cooperation | 163 |
Conclusion The PrinceBishopric of Bamberg and the Imperial Knights | 194 |
Bibliography | 205 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adel alliance Bamberg Neuverzeichnis Akten became Belheim Bischöfe und Kapitel bishop Bishopric of Bamberg Canton Gebürg cathedral chapter Catholicism Christoph confession confessional convert to Catholicism Council of Trent councilors Counter-Reformation Counter-Reformation policies despite domicellar dominated ecclesiastical principalities Echter von Mespelbrunn Elgard emperor Ernst von Mengersdorf fiefs Forchheim franconian imperial knights Gegenreformation Heinrich Hochstift Bamberg Neuverzeichnis Holy Roman Empire Ibid Imperial Church imperial knighthood imperial knightly families ius reformandi Jesuits Johann Gottfried Johann Philipp Julius Echter Kirchlauter Konfessionalisierung Kronach Looshorn Lorenz von Guttenberg lower nobles Lutheran margrave marry neighboring Neithard von Thüngen nobility officeholders Pangratz patronage Peace of Augsburg priest prince-bishop of Würzburg Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg Protestant imperial knights Protestant officials Protestant Reformation protestant Union Protestantism Redwitz regional governor Reich Reichsritterschaft religion Ritterschaftliche Herrschaftswahrung Rotenhan Rupprecht Schultheiß Second Margrave War secular Staatsarchiv StAB subjects territorial Teuschnitz Veit von Würtzburg village vnnd wanted Wiesenthau Wilhelm Wittelsbach Würtzburg family Zagel Zweidler