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8 - Strasbourg in the Sixteenth Century

from Part II - Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Geneva

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

By
Steven W. Tyra
Edited by
R. Ward Holder
R. Ward Holder
Affiliation:
Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire
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Summary

“Strasbourg, that most ancient and magnificent city, is called ‘Argentuaria’ by the Swiss and is situated along the Rhine.”1 So Hartmann Schedel introduced Strasbourg to readers of his Liber Chronicarum (usually dubbed the Nuremberg Chronicle in English) in 1493. In keeping with the universalizing aim of his book, he proceeded to weave the ciuitas vetustissima ac permagnifica into the events of biblical, Roman, and ecclesiastical history, with the patriarch Abraham, Julius Caesar, and Atilla the Hun all making an appearance. The account was accompanied by a lavish full-page illustration of the city’s skyscape centering on its gothic cathedral, whose soaring spire remains iconic to this day. Strasbourg was thus ranked historically and visually alongside the likes of Constantinople, Rome, and even Jerusalem.

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StrasbourganticlericalismJacob SturmmagisterialJohn Calvin
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John Calvin in Context , pp. 70 - 78
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Suggested Further Readings

Abray, Lorna Jane. The People’s Reformation: Magistrates, Clergy, and Commons in Strasbourg, 1500–1598. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Brady, Thomas A. Jr. Ruling Class, Regime, and Reformation at Strasbourg, 1520–1555. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1978.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brady, The Politics of the Reformation in Germany: Jacob Sturm (1489–1553) of Strasbourg. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Lienhard, Marc. “Strasbourg in Calvin’s Time.” In John Calvin: The Strasbourg Years (1538–1541), ed. Arnold, Matthieu. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018.Google Scholar
McKee, Elsie Anne. Katharina Schütz Zell: The Life and Thought of a Sixteenth-Century Reformer. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1999.Google Scholar
Ozment, Steven E. The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-century Germany and Switzerland. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980.Google Scholar
Zell, Katharina Schütz. Church Mother: The Writings of a Protestant Reformer in Sixteenth-Century Germany, trans. McKee, Elsie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.Google Scholar

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