Review of Church robbers and reformers in Germany, 1525-1547. Confiscation and religious purpose in the Holy Roman Empire. by Christopher Ocker.

Authors

Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

10-12-2007

Comments

Published in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 58, Issue 4 (October 2007), pp. 763–763; doi: 10.1017/S0022046907002047. Copyright © 2007 Cambridge University Press. Used by permission.

Abstract

This study is valuable not only as an overview in English of a very complicated area of ecclesiastical law which had significant economic ramifications, but also for its implications for understanding the rise of the territorial state in early modern Germany.