MARC R. FORSTER is Professor of History at Connecticut College, USA.

'A crisp, readable survey of the transformation of German Catholicism during the early modern era.' - Robert J. Bast, University of Tennessee, USA 'A superb text: its clarity, intelligence and the care with which it evaluates the historiography and sets out its own original arguments are exemplary.' - Trevor Johnson, University of the West of England, UK 'This well crafted study should prompt closer study of the forces driving both social-disciplining and populist exuberance within religious traditions.' - John Theibault, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

• AcknowledgementsMapIntroductionCatholic Germany Before TrentThe Counter-Reformation Episode: 1570s to 1620sThe Thirty Years' WarThe German Church after 1650Baroque CatholicismGerman Catholicism in the late Eighteenth CenturyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

MARC R. FORSTER is Professor of History at Connecticut College, USA.

'A crisp, readable survey of the transformation of German Catholicism during the early modern era.' - Robert J. Bast, University of Tennessee, USA 'A superb text: its clarity, intelligence and the care with which it evaluates the historiography and sets out its own original arguments are exemplary.' - Trevor Johnson, University of the West of England, UK 'This well crafted study should prompt closer study of the forces driving both social-disciplining and populist exuberance within religious traditions.' - John Theibault, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

• AcknowledgementsMapIntroductionCatholic Germany Before TrentThe Counter-Reformation Episode: 1570s to 1620sThe Thirty Years' WarThe German Church after 1650Baroque CatholicismGerman Catholicism in the late Eighteenth CenturyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

MARC R. FORSTER is Professor of History at Connecticut College, USA.

'A crisp, readable survey of the transformation of German Catholicism during the early modern era.' - Robert J. Bast, University of Tennessee, USA 'A superb text: its clarity, intelligence and the care with which it evaluates the historiography and sets out its own original arguments are exemplary.' - Trevor Johnson, University of the West of England, UK 'This well crafted study should prompt closer study of the forces driving both social-disciplining and populist exuberance within religious traditions.' - John Theibault, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

• AcknowledgementsMapIntroductionCatholic Germany Before TrentThe Counter-Reformation Episode: 1570s to 1620sThe Thirty Years' WarThe German Church after 1650Baroque CatholicismGerman Catholicism in the late Eighteenth CenturyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.