Peace of Augsburg and the Meckhart Confession

Adam Glen Hough is a graduate of the University of Arizona’s Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, and a past fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek and the University of Victoria’s Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.

• 1. Introduction 2. That Forgotten Place Between Heaven and Hell: Resistance and Compromise During the Augsburg Interim 3. The Sin Unconfessed: Meckhart and the Act of Confession 4. Dance of the Augsburg Preachers: The Melhorn Controversy and the Culture of Confessionalization 5. The Meckhart Confession: Negotiating Moderation 6. A Rudderless Ship in Stormy Seas: Conflict, Crisis, and Concord at the Dawn of the Confessional Age 7. Hellhounds in the House of Fugger 8. The Path of Resistance: Augsburg’s Divergent Evangelical Responses to the Counter Reformation 9. The Calendar Riot: Conceptually Expanded, Contextually Explored 10. Caught in No-Man’s Land: The Vocation Controversy 11. Conclusion