Reformation and Rural Society: The Parishes of Brandenbury-Ansbach-Kulmbach, 1528-1603 Book

	Preface
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	The emergence and reception of the evangelical movement 1521-1533	7
	The Reformation in the towns	7
	Margrave Casimir and the Reformation	14
	Margrave Georg the Pious and the implementation of the
	Reformation	26
	Reception of the evangelical message in the parishes	32
2	The Lutheran church in Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach	47
	The evolution of the church	47
	The consistory	54
	Visitations	60
3	The clergyman in context: the extension of the Reformation to the parish	66
	The clergy	66
	Anticlericalism	76
	Clerical maintenance	84
	Tithes, labour, and the refusal to pay fees	92
4	The Reformation and parish morality	102
	Village culture and religious change	102
	Marriage, the mass, and the fortunes of discipline	118
	Parish politics	128
5	The acculturation of the parish mind	143
	The complexion of religious reform	143
	Education	147
	The catechism	157
	The pulpit	159
	The disenchantment of the church	162
	Popular beliefs and the Reformation	176
	The imprint of Protestantism	193
	Conclusions	203
	Bibliography	208