Forerunners of the Reformation
Forerunners of the Reformation

Author: Heiko A. Oberman

Publisher: James Clarke & Co.

Published: 2003-05

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780227170458

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Oberman's magisterial work transfers discussion of late medieval Christian thought from the private studies of the specialist to more general use and understanding, and explains the significance of the ideas of the time. Although this 'Late Medieval Reader' does not exhaust the riches of the period between the High Middle Ages and the Reformation era, it introduces the reader to aspects of such major themes as conciliarism, curialism, mysticism, scholasticism, the spirituality of the Devotio Moderna, and the impact of Renaissance humanism.The theme of the Forerunners has grown out of the consideration that the justified rejection of a confessional reading of the past has been succeeded by an equally unhistorical disjunction of the Medieval and Reformation periods. Without a grasp of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the medieval basis of modern thought is incomplete, since Reformation and Counter Reformation seem to arise 'out of the blue'.

New Serial Titles
New Serial Titles

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Published: 1986

Total Pages: 2532

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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

The Frederick Family of Rural Albany County, New York
The Frederick Family of Rural Albany County, New York

Author: Kenneth Jacob Frederick

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Michael Frederick who was born ca. 1700 in Germany. He married Gertrude Livingston (or Loewenstein) sometime prior to the year 1726 in Germany. They immigrated to America ca. 1738 and settled in Guilderland, Albany Co., New York. Michael and Gertrude were the parents of three known children. Descendants lived in New York, Massachusetts, Florida, Illinois and elsewhere.

The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350
The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350

Author: Graham A. Loud

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1317021991

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The history of medieval Germany is still rarely studied in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays by distinguished German historians examines one of most important themes of German medieval history, the development of the local principalities. These became the dominant governmental institutions of the late medieval Reich, whose nominal monarchs needed to work with the princes if they were to possess any effective authority. Previous scholarship in English has tended to look at medieval Germany primarily in terms of the struggles and eventual decline of monarchical authority during the Salian and Staufen eras – in other words, at the "failure" of a centralised monarchy. Today, the federalised nature of late medieval and early modern Germany seems a more natural and understandable phenomenon than it did during previous eras when state-building appeared to be the natural and inevitable process of historical development, and any deviation from the path towards a centralised state seemed to be an aberration. In addition, by looking at the origins and consolidation of the principalities, the book also brings an English audience into contact with the modern German tradition of regional history (Landesgeschichte). These path-breaking essays open a vista into the richness and complexity of German medieval history.