Impersonal Power
Impersonal Power

Author: Heide Gerstenberger

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 9004130276

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In this volume. Heide Gerstenberger investigates the development of bourgeois state power by on the one hand proposing a critique of different variants of the structural-functionalist theory of the state and on the other hand analysing the examples of England and France. The central thesis of the work is that the bourgeois form of capitalist state power arose only where capitalist societies developed out of state structures that were already rationalised.

The Dawn of the Reformation
The Dawn of the Reformation

Author: Heiko Oberman

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1992-08-04

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780802806550

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A distinguished scholar places the Reformation movement in its medieval context. Oberman's discerning perspective illuminates the modern student in regard to the multi-faceted historical-cultural context out of which the Reformation arose. "This splendid volume includes essays ranging in time from the fourteenth century to Calvin. . . ".--Gordon Rupp, University of Cambridge.

From the Communal Reformation to the Revolution of the Common Man
From the Communal Reformation to the Revolution of the Common Man

Author: Peter Blickle

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9789004107700

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"From the Communal Reformation to the Revolution of the Common Man" brings together important studies related to a coherent interpretation of the Reformation and the Peasants War of 1525 as a mass movement, rooted in the structures of the communities of towns and villages. The volume presents both detailed studies from the archives and conceptualized essays.

The Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years War

Author: Ronald Asch

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1997-05-21

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 134925617X

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Historians have tried time and again to identify the central issues of the conflict which devastated Europe between 1618 and 1648. The Thirty Years War by Ronald G. Asch puts the religious and constitutional struggle in the Holy Roman Empire squarely back into the centre of events. However, other issues are not neglected. Thus the problems of war finance are shown to be an important key to the interaction between inter-state and domestic conflicts during the war. Equally confessional tensions are analysed as a decisive factor linking international and domestic disputes, and the reader is provided with a succinct narrative account concentrating on the major turning points of the war.