Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Map One South German Imperial Cities ca. 1525
- Map Two Imperial Cities in Upper and Eastern Swabia
- Introduction
- 1 Consultation and the Urban Hierarchy
- 2 Imperial Cities and Collective Politics
- 3 Preachers, Consultation, and the Spread of Urban Reform in Southern Germany
- 4 The Urban Reformation in Donauwörth
- 5 The Urban Reformation in Kaufbeuren
- 6 Negotiation and the Rural Reformation in Eastern Swabia
- 7 Eastern Swabia and the Schmalkaldic War
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Map One South German Imperial Cities ca. 1525
- Map Two Imperial Cities in Upper and Eastern Swabia
- Introduction
- 1 Consultation and the Urban Hierarchy
- 2 Imperial Cities and Collective Politics
- 3 Preachers, Consultation, and the Spread of Urban Reform in Southern Germany
- 4 The Urban Reformation in Donauwörth
- 5 The Urban Reformation in Kaufbeuren
- 6 Negotiation and the Rural Reformation in Eastern Swabia
- 7 Eastern Swabia and the Schmalkaldic War
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
For a few months in the summer of 1546, it appeared the Schmalkaldic League might triumph over Charles V. As Schmalkaldic armies occupied Füssen, Donauwörth, and the Eastern Swabian countryside, Augsburg and other evangelical imperial cities sent forth preachers to staff the newly captured parishes. The long awaited resolution of the religious question seemed at hand, and the region's magistrates acted to prepare the way for the victory of evangelical reform. Their attitude appears in two letters sent to Kaufbeuren's council a few months earlier in October 1545. In September of that year, Duke Heinrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel living up to the “warlike ways” attributed to him by Ulm's council, invaded Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in an attempt to regain his lands by force. Within weeks, a Schmalkaldic force led by Philip of Hesse crushed the duke's army. In announcing the Schmalkaldic League's victory, Augsburg's magistrates expressed their
high hopes in God that, since the enemies' captain has been defeated, they will now behave in a more modest fashion. It will serve us well to speak God's praise, honor, and glory, as well as to call on His divine mercy, that we might recognize His opponents and place our dearest and best trust in Him. In this way, He will stand by us in all times.
Memmingen's council proclaimed “God the Lord seems to have given us this victory. We see how His divine majesty will long preserve His holy word by those faithful people who place their trust in Him.”
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- The Negotiated ReformationImperial Cities and the Politics of Urban Reform, 1525–1550, pp. 248 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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