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    This is the publisher's promotional flyer for my book, The Chancery of God. It's a book on the history of the German city of Magdeburg during the mid-sixteenth century, during the decade following the death of Martin Luther. During this time, Germany saw its first large-scale religious war (the so-called War of the League of Smalcald, usually called the Schmalkaldic War), which ended with a victory by the Catholic Emperor Charles V and brought with it fears that the still-young Protestant movement would be forcibly suppressed. During this time, the Old Town of Magdeburg fought to preserve its distinctively Protestant identity, using the city's three printing presses (invented less than a century prior) as its most formidable weapons. The city's leaders adopted the never-before-seen tactic of issuing a massive torrent of pamphlet literature which amounted in effect to anti-Imperial and anti-Catholic propaganda. This monograph analyzes the content of these pamphlets and draws some broad conclusions about what Protestantism meant, ultimately, for Magdeburg's defenders.

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    New Now available from Ashgate Publishing…

    The Chancery of God


    Protestant Print, Polemic and Propaganda
    against the Empire, Magdeburg 1546–1551
    Nathan Rein, Ursinus College
    St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History

    The disastrous protestant defeat in the Schmalkaldic War (1546–47) Key Points
    and the promulgation of the Ausburg Interim (1548) left the fate • Presents the first English language monograph on Magdeburg’s
    of German Protestantism in doubt. In the wake of these events, a single anti-Imperial resistance and pamphlet campaign.
    protestant town, Magdeburg, offered organized, sustained resistance • Analyzes Magdeburg’s print output during the crucial years of 1546–51.
    to Emperor Charles V’s drive to consolidate Habsburg hegemony
    and reinstitute uniform Roman Catholic worship throughout Germany. Contents:

    In a flood of printed pamphlets, Magdeburg’s leaders justified their Introduction;

    refusal to surrender with forceful appeals to religious belief and German Pamphlets and Policy;

    tradition. Magdeburg’s resistance, interdiction and eventual siege attracted ‘German Liberty’;

    admiring attention from across Europe. The teachings developed and ‘God’s Word, Pure and Clear’:

    disseminated by Protestant thinkers in defense of the city’s stance would The Interim Controversy;

    ultimately influence political theorists in Switzerland, France, Scotland Urban Theology and the Siege Works;

    and even North America. Magdeburg’s ordeal formed a signal crisis Religion and the ‘Magdeburg Worldview’;

    in the emergence of German Lutheran confessional identity. Afterword;


    Bibliography;
    The Chancery of God is the first English language monograph Index.
    on Magdeburg’s anti-Imperial resistance and pamphlet campaign.
    The book offers an analysis of Magdeburg’s printed output (over

    www.ashgate.com
    200 publications) during the crucial years of 1546–51—texts which
    present a broad spectrum of arguments for resistance and suggest
    a coherent identity and worldview that is characteristically
    and self-consciously Protestant.

    Includes 5 b&w illustrations


    July 2008 282 pages
    Hardback 978-0-7546-5686-9 $99.95
    All online orders at www.ashgate.com receive a discount.

    Please visit www.ashgate.com Ashgate Publishing


    for sample pages PO Box 2225
    Williston VT 05495-2225 USA
    Toll-free: 1-800-535-9544

    ASHGATE Email: orders@ashgate.com


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