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Book SynopsisTruber, Ungnad & Vergerio: Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands provides a critical study of Lutheran reformers in Krain, formerly a province along what is now the Croatian/Slovenian border, and acts as a case study for the rest of the Habsburg-Ottoman borderlands. Focus is given to the Austrian Habsburgs, benefactors to the reformers, who sought to adopt Johannes Brenz' Lutheran territorial church model that would provide the Habsburgs the means to expand their hegemony over the region for decades.
During this time, there were three individuals who were integral in establishing this movement: reformer and Bible translator Primus Truber, Lutheran diplomat Peter Paul Vergerio, and Austrian nobleman Hans Ungnad, the latter of whom played a central role in transmitting Slavic translation of Biblical and Evangelical texts into Krain through his personal network, which continued to help grow the Habsburg sphere of influence and contributed to their larg
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – Introduction – Hans Ungnad – Primus Truber & Hans Ungnad – Vergerio, Truber & Ungnad – The Politics of Religion: Peace of Augsburg, Maximilian II, and the Protestant Princes – Conclusion – Appendix: Patronage Networks – Notes – Bibliography – Bibliography.
