German Imperial Knights: Noble Misfits Between Princely Authority and the Crown, 1479-1648

ISBN-13: 9780367272708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 308 str.

Richard J. Ninness

Opis

German imperial knights attempted to turn the world on its head through their challenges to authority. They refused to obey laws that violated custom. During the Reformation, they embraced religious tolerance and stood up to their princely adversaries, becoming champions of the Catholic Church.

O autorze

Richard J. Ninness is Associate Professor at Touro College in New York City. He is the author of Between Opposition and Collaboration: Nobles, Bishops, and the German Reformations in the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg (2011).