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Die Burgerbibliothek Zürich wurde 1629 gegründet und ging 1631 in die Hände des Staates über, der durch die Bibliothek die Wissenschaften fördern wollte. 1645 gab der Bibliotheksrat der Burgerbibliothek ein Neujahrsblatt heraus, das den Kindern der Stadtbürger verteilt wurde. Daraus entstand die Tradition der Neujahrsblätter der Burgerbibliothek, die bis 1939 gepflegt wurde. Die Neujahrsblätter sind als Machtinstrumente des Staates einmalige Zeitzeugen von besonderer Bedeutung und geben Aufschluss über theologische, politische, soziale und historische Gegebenheiten der Zeit. Diese Arbeit analysiert 15 ausgewählte Blätter aus den Jahren 1645 bis 1672, die alle vom renommierten Künstler Conrad Meyer und dem ebenso bekannten Dichter und Theologen Johann Wilhelm Simler geschaffen wurden. Diese Blätter sind von besonderer Bedeutung, da die beiden Autoren erstmals die Kombination von Text und Bild zu erbaulichen Zwecken einsetzten. Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist es, den Begriff der Erbauung näher zu beschreiben und damit die Funktion jedes einzelnen dieser Blätter genau zu definieren.
Pierre Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562), né en Italie, prieur augustinien à Naples, puis réformateur à Strasbourg, Oxford et Zurich, fut un personnage clé du protestantisme réformé. Ce recueil rassemble une quinzaine de contributions qui se sont attachées particulièrement à la pensée théologico-politique de cet humaniste européen au plein sens de l'expression.
The Reformation period witnessed an explosion in the number of biographies of contemporary religious figures being published. Whether lives of reformers worthy of emulation, or heretics deserving condemnation, the genre of biography became a key element in the confessional rivalries that raged across Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Offering more than a general survey of Life writing, this volume examines key issues and questions about how this trend developed among different confessions and how it helped shape lasting images of reformers, particularly Luther and Calvin up to the modern period. This is the first-ever full length study of the subject showing that Lives of th...
This volume contains the papers of the international RefoRC conference on 'Reformed Majorities and Minorities in Early Modern Europe' as it was organized by the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden in cooperation with the Faculty of 'Artes Liberales' of the University of Warsaw. The conference took place April 10-12, 2013 in Emden and was part of the research project 'Doctrina et Tolerantia' directed by the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek. The contributions in this volume deal with the question how the relation between doctrine and toleration was dealt with in territories with a Reformed majority. Did the refugee-experience of the Reformed make them tolerant or militant? How did official policy relate to everyday practice? Were there different opinions on this issue within the Reformed tradition? The answers to these questions give more insights into the diversity of international Calvinism and the way theory was put into practice.
In Artistic Disobedience Claudio Bacciagaluppi shows how music practice was an occasion for cross-confessional contacts in 17th- and 18th-century Switzerland, implying religious toleration. The difference between public and private performing contexts, each with a distinct repertoire, appears to be of paramount importance. Confessional barriers were overcome in an individual, private perspective. Converted musicians provide striking examples. Also, book trade was often cross-confessional. Music by Catholic (but also Lutheran) composers was diffused in Reformed territories mainly in the private music societies of Swiss German towns (collegia musica). The political and pietist influences in the Zurich and Winterthur music societies encouraged forms of communication that are among the acknowledged common roots of European Enlightenment.