Die evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI. Jahrhunderts

When the Reformation was established in a territory or an imperial city, the territorial lords and the municipal authorities were forced to issue new ordinances for numerous areas of church life in their communities. These ordinances often had a wide impact, not only on church life but on the political and legal events in the territories. This second volume on Alsace contains the church ordinances of the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg, the territories of Fleckenstein and Rappoltstein as well as the imperial cities of Colmar, Hagenau, Mulhouse, Munster in the Munster Valley and Wissembourg up to the year 1618. In keeping with influence of the reformation centers of Basel, Strasbourg and Württemberg, very different models of church organization and of the structure of communal life are shown.