This study focuses on one of the most idiosyncratic and interesting figures of the German Reformation, Sebastian Franck (1499-1542). Franck's life traces the margins of sixteenth-century religious dissent and the tolerance of heterodoxy. The book details Franck's appropriation of late medieval mysticism and humanism, which he shaped into a critique of all religious institutions and ideologies of his day, Catholic, Protestant, and Anabaptist. The work also examines the responses of religious and political authorities to Franck's critique; responses which revealed the fissures in the hierarchies of rule of the early Reformation, and the possibility for dissent in the age of religious reform.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-10
0820420832
ISBN-13
9780820420837
eBay Product ID (ePID)
128968524
Product Key Features
Author
Patrick Hayden-Roy
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Issn
0897-7836
Series Part/Volume Number
7
First Published
1994
Series Title
Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Texts
Author Biography
The Author: Patrick Hayden-Roy is an assistant professor of History at Nebraska Wesleyan University. He received his B.A. from the University of Southern California, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has published articles both in the U.S. and Germany. Dr. Hayden-Roy is currently on the editorial staff of Sebastian Franck's Works, which is in the process of publication by Peter Lang Verlag, Berlin.