Fear and Foresight: Hermann Weinsberg (1518–97) in the Era of Confessionalization
Hermann Weinsberg’s extensive Gedenkbuch (memory book) is simultaneously one of the best-known sources for everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany and one of the most underutilized in the historiography of confession and coexistence. This article argues that, far from an unrepresentative outlier,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
2023
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2023, Volume: 54, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 23-39 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBB German language area KDB Roman Catholic Church KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
WEINSBERG, Hermann
B Everyday Life B GEDENKBUCH der Stadt Teschen (Book) B Germany B Quality of life |
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| Summary: | Hermann Weinsberg’s extensive Gedenkbuch (memory book) is simultaneously one of the best-known sources for everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany and one of the most underutilized in the historiography of confession and coexistence. This article argues that, far from an unrepresentative outlier, Weinsberg’s anxiety-laced irenicism reflects the tangle of uncertainty, contradiction, and compromise that lay behind Cologne’s cultivated reputation for self-confident Catholicism. Coming of age in an era of instability and conflict, Weinsberg learned to value peace above confessional allegiances, writing charitably of respectable Protestants who worked to maintain civic order and castigating Catholic firebrands who threated to overturn it. Examining sixteenth-century Cologne from his perspective puts a human face to everyday coexistence that is missing from more mechanistic accounts of the city’s long-term confessionalization. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/727956 |