Reawakening the “Old Evangelical Zeal”
The 1617 Reformation Jubilee and Collective Memory in Strasbourg and Ulm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16616163 |
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| Authors | Christopher W Close (Saint Joseph's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 299-321 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/scj4802001 |
| OpenAlex | W2767386289 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
In November 1617, Protestants across the Holy Roman Empire commemorated the one-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses. Traditionally, scholars have argued that a unity of message marked the first official centennial celebration in modern Western history. Equally important, however, were variations in the structure of Reformation Jubilee commemorations, which authorities used to address specific local concerns. In Strasbourg, officials responded to the spread of Tridentine reform in surrounding territories by organizing a festival centered on anti-Catholic polemics. Their Jubilee emphasized the citizenry’s need to resist Catholicism as their forefathers had done one hundred years earlier. By contrast, Ulm’s Jubilee portrayed Ulm as God’s chosen city, a second Wittenberg that served as a guiding light for all Evangelicals. In both cities, the calculated nature of the collective memories broadcast through the Jubilee contradicts modernist narratives that draw clear divisions between the operation of memory politics before and after the Enlightenment
Political science · Sociology · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Introduction. Memory and Identity
Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation
German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400–1650
Singing the Gospel
Protestant Politics
Remembering the Martyrdom of Saint Francis of Paola
Memory before Modernity
The Reformation of the Soundscape
Between Memory and History
Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1983)
| Highly cited | No |
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