RT Book
T1 Christian history in rural Germany: transcending the Catholic and Protestant narratives
T2 Studies in Central European histories
JF Studies in Central European histories
A1 Mayes, David
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1818727293
AB "Surely, Christian history in Germany principally followed the outlines of a Catholic and Protestant narrative, right? On the contrary, for Hesse, Hanau, and Fulda this dominant framework largely obscures the historical experience of most Christians, specifically rural Christians. The rural Christian narrative, animated for more than a millennium by agricultural and communal forces, principally followed an indigenous path characterized by long-term surges and setbacks. This path eventually bifurcated not in the 1517-1648 period but rather in the wake of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, and it did so not into Catholic and Protestant storylines but rather into those Christian corpora ( Gemeinden ) which maintained their local civil-sacred unity into the twentieth century and those which lost that unity after succumbing to Westphalia's divisive effects"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and indexes
CN BR857.H4
SN 9789004526488
K1 Christians : Germany : Hesse : History
K1 Peasants : Religious life : Germany : Hesse : History
K1 Rural Population : Germany : Hesse : History
K1 Communalism : Religious aspects : Christianity : History
K1 Hesse (Germany) : Church history
K1 Hesse (Germany) : Religious life and customs