C. SCOTT DIXON is Senior Lecturer in European History at the Queen's University of Belfast. His publications include The Reformation and Rural Society: The Parishes of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, 1528-1603 (Cambridge, 1996), (editor) The German Reformation: The Essential Readings (Oxford, 1999) and The Reformation in Germany (Oxford, 2002). - LUISE SCHORN-SHUTTE is Professor of Modern History at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her publications include Evangelische Geistlichkeit in der Fruhneuzeit. Deren Anteil an der Entfaltung fruhmoderner Staatlichkeit und Gesellschaft (Gutersloh, 1996), Die Reformation: Vorgeschichte - Verlauf - Wirkung (Munchen, 1996), and (editor with W. Sparn) Evangelische Pfarrer: zur sozialen und politischen Rolle einer burgerlichen Gruppe in der deutschen Gesellschaft des 18 bis 20 Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart, 1997).

• Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; C.Scott Dixon & L.Schorn-Schütte Before the Protestant Clergy: The Construction and Deconstruction of Medieval Priesthood; R.N.Swanson The Making of the Protestant Pastor: The Theological Foundations of a Clerical Estate; R.E.McLaughlin The Emergence of the Pastoral Family in the German Reformation: The Parsonage as a Site of Socio-religious Change; S.C.Karant-Nunn The Clergyman between the Cultures of State and Parish: Contestation and Compromise in Reformation Saxony; J.Goodale The Clergy and the Theological Culture of the Age: The Education of Lutheran Pastors in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; T.Kaufmann The Protestant Ministry and the Cultures of Rule: The Reformed Zürich Clergy of the Sixteenth Century; B.Gordon Teaching the Reformation: The Clergy as Preachers, Catechists, Authors and Teachers; I.Green The French Pastorate: Confessional Identity and Confessionalization in the Huguenot Minority, 1559-1685; M.Greengrass Index

'Taken together, the essays in this book focus our attention on a fascinating aspect of the Reformation community...There are all sorts of good things in this book and it is to be commended. - David Hoyle, Journal of Theological Studies