Anticlericalism: in late medieval and early modern EuropePeter A. Dykema, Heiko Augustinus Oberman Traditionally anticlericalism has been regarded as a significant historical factor, by some historians even as the unifying focal point for the host of movements known as the Reformation of the sixteenth century. In forty-one essays eminent historians of culture, religion, and society redefine and redirect the debate regarding the scope and impact of European anticlericalism during the period 1300-1700. The meaning of reform and resentment is here clearly articulated and the sentiments are analyzed which were directed first against all levels of the Roman hierarchy and later as well against the evangelical pastor. Using sources drawn from a wide variety of city and village archives, of literary genres and theological tracts, the articles presented here uncover the clusters of reform hope and bitter resentment directed toward parish priest, monk, bishop and pope, in addition to the early Protestant clergy. The volume highlights the continuity and discontinuity of anticlerical passion, language, goals and actions between the late medieval and Reformation periods. |
Contents
deutschen Mittelalter | 3 |
The Case of the New Devout 19 | 19 |
Anticlericalism among the Lollards | 53 |
The Church and its Critics in Time of Crisis | 65 |
The Hussite Critique of the Clergys Civil Dominion | 83 |
Anticlericalism in Late Medieval German Verse | 91 |
Leonardo Bruni and the 1431 Florentine Complaint against | 133 |
Anticlericalism and the Cities | 147 |
Typen des pneumatologischen | 379 |
Anticlericalism in Thomas Müntzers Prague Manifesto | 441 |
A Multilateral View | 449 |
Anticlericalism in German Reformation Pamphlets | 461 |
A Response | 491 |
What a tangled and tenuous mess the clergy is | 499 |
Antiklerikalismus in den Forderungen und Aktionen | 535 |
Peasants and Clergy 1525 | 545 |
Anticlericalism Communalism | 167 |
Documents on Communalism and the Control of Women | 186 |
Erscheinungen des Antiklerikalismus in Sachsen vor | 229 |
Anticlericalism and the Early Spanish Inquisition | 237 |
Anticlericalism in Three French Women Writers | 243 |
Elements of Anticlerical Sentiment in the Province of Holland | 257 |
Characteristics of Italian Anticlericalism | 271 |
Epic Poetry and the Clergy | 283 |
SixteenthCentury Italian Spirituali and the Papacy | 299 |
Writing the Book on Italian Anticlericalism | 309 |
Last der Kirche Reformation der Kirche | 317 |
Antiklerikalismus beim jungen Luther? | 343 |
Klerus und Antiklerikalismus in Luthers Schrift An | 353 |
Anticlericalism the Law | 367 |
A Programmatic Assessment | 569 |
Antisacerdotalism and the Young Calvin | 583 |
Calvin and the Monastic Ideal | 605 |
Anticlericalism in the Registers of | 617 |
Local Anticlericalism in Reformation Germany | 625 |
The CounterReformation Impact on Anticlerical Propaganda | 639 |
Ein neuzeitlicher Typus | 655 |
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Common terms and phrases
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