Politics and Reformations: Histories and Reformations Ocker V1_i-iv_new.indd i 8/10/2007 11:17:44 AM Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions Edited by Andrew Colin Gow Edmonton, Alberta In cooperation with Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Berkeley, California Sylvia Brown, Edmonton, Alberta Berndt Hamm, Erlangen Johannes Heil, Heidelberg Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Tucson, Arizona Martin Kaufhold, Augsburg Jürgen Miethke, Heidelberg M.E.H. Nicolette Mout, Leiden Founded by Heiko A. Oberman † VOLUME 127 Ocker V1_i-iv_new.indd ii 8/10/2007 11:17:46 AM Thomas A. Brady, Jr. OCKER V1_f1_iv.indd iv 8/6/2007 2:01:12 PM Politics and Reformations: Histories and Reformations Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr. Edited by Christopher Ocker, Michael Printy Peter Starenko, and Peter Wallace LEIDEN • BOSTON 2007 Ocker V1_i-iv_new.indd iii 8/10/2007 11:17:46 AM On the cover: The cover illustration is taken from the Chronique rimée des guerres de Bourgogne (Strasbourg, 1477) and is used with permission of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Brill has made all reasonable efforts to trace all rights holders to any copyrighted material used in this work. In cases where these efforts have not been successful the publisher welcomes communications from copyrights holders, so that the appropriate acknowledgements can be made in future editions, and to settle other permission matters. This book is printed on acid-free paper. A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISSN 1573-4188 ISBN 978 90 04 16172 6 Copyright 2007 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands Ocker V1_i-iv_new.indd iv 8/10/2007 11:17:46 AM CONTENTS List of Illustrations ...................................................................... ix Preface ......................................................................................... xi Bibliography of the Works of Thomas A. Brady, Jr. ................ xv Tempests and Stürme in Reformation Studies: Some Scholarly and Personal Observations ......................................................... 1 Kaspar von Greyerz The Reformation in Post-War Historiography: An American Contribution ................................................................................ 11 Peter Blickle PART ONE: HISTORIES Ranke, Lamprecht, and Luther ................................................. 23 Roger Chickering The Reformation and the Early Social Sciences (Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Freud): Toward a Cultural Epidemiology ... 35 H.C. Erik Midelfort Ranke Meets Gadamer: The Question of Agency in the Reformation ................................................................................ 63 Lee Palmer Wandel Historians without Borders? L’histoire croisée and Early Modern Social History ............................................................................. 79 Joel F. Harrington Recent Studies of the Roman Inquisition ................................. 91 Anne Jacobson Schutte Hermann Conring and the European History of Law ............ 113 Constantin Fasolt The Reformation of the Enlightenment: German Histories in the Eighteenth Century .............................................................. 135 Michael Printy OCKER V1_f1_v-xxi.indd v 8/6/2007 8:22:38 PM vi contents Historical Writing and German Identity: Jacob Wimpheling and Sebastian Franck ................................................................. 155 Julie K. Tanaka Perfecting the Past: Charles the Bold and Traditional Historiography in Early Modern Germany ............................... 177 Elaine C. Tennant PART TWO: REFORMATIONS The Personal is Political: Convents in the Holy Roman Empire ......................................................................................... 199 Amy Leonard Guerre et paix dans les écrits de Zwingli et de Luther: une comparaison ................................................................................ 217 Marc Lienhard Luther and Müntzer See Mary’s Magni cat through Different Spectacles .................................................................................... 241 Christoph Burger Beyond the Freedom of the Will: Erasmus’ Struggle for Grace ........................................................................................... 255 Greta Grace Kroeker Tolerance and Heresy: Martin Bucer’s Radical New De nition of Christian Fellowship ............................................. 269 Berndt Hamm Landgrave Philipp’s Dilemma: The Roots of Tolerance and the Desire for Protestant Unity .................................................. 293 Ellen Yutzy Glebe Calvin in Germany ..................................................................... 313 Christopher Ocker Confessionalization in Early Modern Germany: A Jewish Perspective ................................................................................... 345 Dean Phillip Bell Catholic Intensity in Post-Reformation Germany: Preaching on the Passion and Catholic Identity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries ................................................................ 373 Susan C. Karant-Nunn OCKER V1_f1_v-xxi.indd vi 8/6/2007 8:22:39 PM contents vii Pietism, Ministry, and Church Discipline: The Tribulations of Christoph Matthäus Seidel .................................................... 397 Terence McIntosh Religious Wars at Home: The Problem of Confessionally Mixed Families ............................................................................ 425 Craig Harline Trouble with Miracles: An Episode in the Culture and Politics of Wonder in Colonial Mexico ..................................... 441 William B. Taylor List of Contributors .................................................................... 459 Index of Names of Persons ....................................................... 461 Index of Places ........................................................................... 466 Index of Subjects ........................................................................ 468 OCKER V1_f1_v-xxi.indd vii 8/6/2007 8:22:39 PM OCKER V1_f1_v-xxi.indd viii 8/6/2007 8:22:39 PM LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece: Thomas A. Brady, Jr. Elaine C. Tennant, “Perfecting the Past: Charles the Bold and Traditional Historiography in Early Modern Germany” Fig. 1. “How the Black King invaded the empire of the King of Flints and the King of Flints died in battle.” Woodcut by Hans Burgkmair ........................................ 190 Fig. 2. “How King Greatfame wanted to end his life in a garden and beforehand named him whom he had chosen as his daughter’s husband.” Woodcut by Leonhard Beck ................................................................ 192 OCKER V1_f1_v-xxi.indd ix 8/6/2007 8:22:39 PM OCKER V1_f1_v-xxi.indd x 8/6/2007 8:22:39 PM PREFACE Thomas A. Brady, Jr. joined the History Department of the University of Oregon in 1967, while completing a dissertation for the University of Chicago on the Strasbourg magistrate Jacob Sturm (d. 1553). At Oregon, he worked closely with his colleagues Roger Chickering, Joseph Esherick, Robert Berdahl, and Alan Kimball to build the History Department’s reputation for scholarship. Brady and Chickering founded the monograph series, Studies in German Histories. In 1987, in recognition of his scholarly contributions and his commitment to undergraduate and graduate learning, Brady was designated President’s Distinguished Professor of the Humanities. He moved to the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. In 2001 he was awarded Berkeley’s Peder Sather Chair, culminating a distinguished career that has also included fellowships of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Fulbright Senior Research Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Historisches Kolleg in Munich, the National Humanities Center, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A consummate scholar, he is also known as a devoted teacher and mentor, a fact acknowledged by the American Historical Association, which awarded him the Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award in January 2004. That same year, nearly one hundred students, colleagues, and friends came to Berkeley for a symposium held in his honor. Many of the contributions to this volume are fruit of that gathering. To acknowledge Tom’s contribution to scholarship is to recognize his marriage to Katherine Gingrich Brady, who has been his closest collaborator in everything since 1964. In both the symposium and this Festschrift, we could imagine no better way to record the Bradys’ mark on our lives than to show the effect of their continuing example and inspiration upon us. “The craft of history,” Prof. James Tracy once noted, “is one that grows from sharing, not just among individuals and across national and ideological boundaries, but also between genera- tions.”1 The Bradys’ intellectual hospitality and generosity have been