Based on Sixteenth-Century interrogation records, this book provides a rare insight into the religious lives of ordinary people, challenging the importance of belief in constructing religious identities and revealing the potential for accommodation during the controversies of the early Reformation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Ambiguous identities -- Religious tensions in the 1520s -- Anabaptists: a special case? -- Magisterial reform and religious deviance -- Making the bi-confessional city: political -- Making the bi-confessional city: religious -- Conclusion.
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