Richard J Ninness

German Imperial Knights

Noble Misfits between Princely Authority and the Crown, 1479-1648

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

German imperial knights attempted to turn the world on its head through their challenges to authority. They refused to obey laws that violated custom. During the Reformation, they embraced religious tolerance and stood up to their princely adversaries, becoming champions of the Catholic Church.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780367646844
• ISBN-10: 0367646846
• Artikelnr.: 69890628

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Ninness is Associate Professor at Touro College in New York City. He is the author of Between Opposition and Collaboration: Nobles, Bishops, and the German Reformations in the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1 Free Knights' Dilemma 17
2 Marginality and Subversion 52
3 Institutionalization of a Peculiar Status in the Midst
of the Reformation 86
4 Grumbach's Attempt at a Nobles' Revolution, Its
Failure, and a New Status Quo 136
5 Imperial Knights and Imperial Church: Their
Strategies in the Reformation Era 177
6 Imperial Knighthood, Multiconfessionalism, and the
Counter-Reformation 207
Conclusion: Imperial Knights as Noble Misfits 257
Bibliography 270
Index 300