Johann Sleidan and the Protestant Vision of History

Johann Sleidan and the Protestant Vision of History

Kess, Alexandra

Taylor & Francis Ltd

02/2008

266

Dura

Inglês

9780754657705

15 a 20 dias

One of the major challenges faced by the emergent Protestant faith was how to establish itself in a hitherto Catholic world. This study explores the life and works of one of the earliest and most influential Protestant historians, Johann Sleidan to reveal how history was used to consolidate the new confession and the states which adopted it.
Contents: Introduction; The making of a historian - Sleidan in France; Historian of the Schmalkaldic League; In the service of Strasbourg; Sleidan's De statu religionis et reipublicae, Carolo Quinto, Caesare, Commentarii - an official Protestant view of history?; Sleidan and the German historians; Sleidan's reception in France; Conclusion; Appendix; Select bibliography; Index.
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