Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe

JAY GOODALE Assistant Professor of History, Bucknell UniversityBRUCE GORDON Reader in Modern History and Deputy Director of the Reformation Studies Institute, University of St. AndrewsIAN GREEN Professor of Early Modern History, Queen's University, BelfastMARK GREENGRASS Researcher, University of SheffieldSUSAN C. KARANT-NUNN Professor of History and Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, University of ArizonaTHOMAS KAUFFMANN Professor of Church History, Georg-August University, Göttingen, GermanyR. EMMET MCLAUGHLIN Associate Professor of History, Villanova UniversityR. N. SWANSON Professor of Medieval Ecclesiastical History, University of Birmingham

• 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