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Vaterlandsliebe und Religionskonflikt: Politische Diskurse im Alten Reich (1555-1648)

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In the past years ideological elements that guaranteed cohesion and loyalties in early modern societies have become a key interest of scholarship. Revolving around the notion of amor patriae (love ...
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  • 13 August 2007
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In the past years ideological elements that guaranteed cohesion and loyalties in early modern societies have become a key interest of scholarship. Revolving around the notion of amor patriae (love of country), this study shows how this classical idea with its civic humanist connotations was transferred into the context of monarchical theory of the (German) Empire. The book further explores how love of country fitted into European debates on the nature of commonwealth and the citizen's duties. Combined with an analysis of humanist images of the German fatherland and nation, this concept's application is examined in the German pamphlet literature from the conflicts of the late 16th century to the end of the Thirty Years’ War. The result is a refreshing portrait of the confessional era in Germany, which is often simply characterized by sectarian and political divide.
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Price: $179.00
Pages: 512
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
Publication Date: 13 August 2007
ISBN: 9789004161573
Format: Hardcover
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"Alexander Schmidt has written a learned, cogent study that does a great deal to restore the German nation's neolithic history. One may habor doubts if an achievement like this will still be possible after the next round of German academic reform." – Martin Wrede, in: Renaissance Quarterly
"Der doppelte Methodenansatz macht das Buch zu einer anregenden Lektüre, die gerade deshalb zum Weiterdenken animiert, weil des Autors Mut zum Wagnis ein paar offene Fragen hinterlässt und teilweise auch Widerspruch provoziert. (...) Überzeugend fällt auch Schmidts Erklärungsansatz aus, warum die deutschen Protestanten den Diskurs über die deutsche Nation schon im 16. Jahrhundert klar dominierten." – Caspar Hirschi, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 17 October 2008
"Schmidts Arbeit, der eine breite Rezeption zu wünschen ist, stellt eine, für eine Dissertation ungewöhnliche Leistung dar. Und so bleibt nur zu hoffen, dass sie weitere derartige Untersuchungen des politischen Vokabulars inspirieren möge, die es dann auch erlauben werden, den Stellenwert des Patriotismusdiskurses in der "politischen Sprache" noch präziser einzuordnen als dies aufgrund des Forschungsstandes derzeit möglich ist." – Gabriele Haug-Moritz, in: H-Soz-u-Kult
Alexander Schmidt, Dr. phil. (2005), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, is research fellow at the Sonderforschungsbereich 482 at the University of Jena.