Publisher's Synopsis
The volume presents new and interdisciplinary research on a core issue of European religious and political history: the development of centralised institutions of church government in the Early Modern territorial states. Using approaches from the intellectual history of theology to archive-based structural history, the contributionsshed light on a wide range of phenomena. Phenomena from all three major Christian confessions as well as territories from Scandinavia to Transsilvania are focused in ten essays and two concluding comments.
