The social history of the Reformation

(print) xxiv, 397 p. ; 24 cm"In honor of Harold J. Grimm."Foreword xi -- Preface xvii -- Acknowledgments xxi -- PART ONE : The Municipal Setting of the Reformation -- The Control of Morals in Calvin's Geneva Robert M. Kingdon 3 -- The Reformation in Niirnberg Gottfried Seebass 17 -- Hard Work, Good Work, and School Work : An Analysis of Wenzeslaus Linck's Conception of Civic Responsibility Charles E. Darnel, Jr. 41 -- The Lawyers, Dr. Christoph Scheurl, and the Reformation in Niirnberg Phillip Norton Bebb 52 -- Patricians in Dissension : A Case Study from Sixteenth-Century Niirnberg Jackson Spielvogel 73 -- PART TWO : The Impact of the Reformation on Society -- The Dynamics of Printing in the Sixteenth Century Richard G. Cole 93 -- The Reformation and the German Peasants' War Hans J. Hillerbrand 106 -- Christian Humanism and the Freedom of a Christian : Johann Eberlin von Giinzburg to the Peasants Kyle C. Sessions 137 -- The Two Social Strands in Italian Anabaptism ca.1526-ca.1565 George H. Williams 156 -- John Foxe and the Ladies Roland H. Bainton 208 -- Wittenberg Botanists during the Sixteenth Century Karl H. Dannenfeldt 223 -- Luther's Social Concern for Students Lewis W. Spitz 249 -- Albrecht Dilrer's "Four Apostles" : A Memorial Picture from the Reformation Era Gerhard Pfeiffer 271 -- The Significance of the Epitaph Monument for Early Lutheran Ecclesiastical Art Carl C. Christensen 297 -- PART THREE : The Organization of the Reformation -- The Lutheran Church of the Reformation : Problems of Its Formation and Organization in the Middle and North German Territories Irmgard Hoss 317 -- Protestant Endowment Law in the Franconian Church Ordinances Hans Lienuann 340 -- The Second Niirnberg Church Visitation, 1560-1561 Gerhard Hirschmann 355 -- Notes on the Contributors 381 -- Index 38