Acknowledgments

A Note on Conventions and Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter One Catholic Preaching and the German Reformation? Postils and their Production, 1520–1535

A. Preaching the Word in Late Medieval Germany

B. "Mein allerbestes Buch": Tradition and Innovation in Luther's Church Postils

C. A Paradigm in Need of Revision: The Catholic Response to the German Reformation

D. Meeting Luther on His Own Terms: The Religious and Propagandistic Functions of Catholic Postils, 1520–1535

Chapter Two Re-Invention, Innovation, and Reaction: Lutheran and Catholic Postils, 1535–1555

A. Improving Upon the Praeceptor: Lutheran Postillators, 1535–1546

B. Reaction and Innovation: Catholic Postil Production, 1536–1546

C. Catholic Preaching, Printing, and Self-Censorship in the Wake of the Augsburg Interim

D. A Cautious Postillator: Johann Wild's Postille and Preaching in the Archdiocese of Mainz

E. One Remnant Suffering Under the Cross: Lutheran Postillators, 1547–1555

F. Catholic Printing and the Reformation: The Yield of Catholic Postil Production, 1530–1555

Chapter Three Matches Made in Heaven: Lutheran Postillators in the Service of their Princes, 1555–1620

A. Renewed Uses for Old Texts: Pericopes in the Service of Confessional Indoctrination and Discipline

B. Tenure of Office and Duration of Production: Lutheran Officials and Their Postils

C. Out of Print: The Preservation of the Praeceptor and the Decline of His Church Postils

D. Fodder catholic or Catholic? Pericopes as the Harvest of the Ancient Church

E. Verging on Hypocrisy: Postillenschreiber as Enablers of Postillenreiter

F. Lutheran Postil Production, 1555–1620: Implications and Questions

Chapter Four Excursus: Calvinist Postils? The Pragmatism of German Reformed Postillators

Chapter Five Catholic Postillenfresser: Postils, Catholic Reform, and the Counter-Reformation

A. Continuity and Rupture: German Particularism and the Slow Death of the Via media

B. Plagiarizing Plagiarists: The Repossession of Spangenberg and Corvin

C. A Definitive Transition: Postils and the Primacy of Doctrine after 1570

Chapter Six Correcting Catholicism: Censorship, Confessional Consolidation, and the Decline of Homegrown Postillators

A. The Limits of Reform Discourse and the Litmus of Orthodoxy: Catholic Postils in an Era of Uncertainty

B. At the Hands of Censors: The Use and Abuse of Johann Wild

C. The Last of the Popular German Postillators: Production in the Wake of Catholic Consolidation after 1590

D. Exiles and Immigrants: The Dominance of Medieval and Foreign Postils after 1600

Conclusion

Appendices & Tables

Introduction & Directions for Use

Methods of Selection

Methods of Abbreviation

Methods of Calculating Total Printings to ca. 1620, Year of First Edition, etc

Confessional Designation of Authors

The Issue of Latin and German Editions and Translations

Appendix 1: Catholic and Protestant Postils by Year of First Printing

Appendix 2: Catholic and Protestant Postils by Author (with Select Annotations)

Addendum to Appendix 2: Notes on Select Postils Listed as 1621–1650 by Rublack, "Lutherische Predigt," (1992)

Appendix 3: Complete Sets of Catholic Postils by Year of Each Printing

Appendix 4: Luther's Postils

4.a. Individual Volumes and Printings

4.a.1. 1521 P-Adv. (Latin)

4.a.2. 1522 P-Adv. (German)

4.a.3. 1522 P-(Xmas-Epiph.)

4.a.4. 1525 P-(Epiph.-Easter)

4.a.5. 1525 P-W

4.a.6. 1526 P-Evang.-S (Roth)

4.a.7. 1527 P-Evang.-dS

4.a.8. 1528 P-Evang.-W

4.a.9. 1544 P-S (Cruciger)

4.a.10. 1544 P-Haus

4.b. An Estimation of Complete Sets (not including House Postils)

4.c. All Individual Volumes by Year of Publication

Table 1: Catholic Postil Production: The Data

Table 2: Catholic Postil Production in the Empire, 1525–1620

Table 3: Luther's Church- and House Postils, 1521–1620

Bibliography

Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Reference Works, Libraries, and Microform Collections

Manuscript Sources

Printed Primary Sources

Select Secondary Sources

Index