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Article: Catholic Belief and Survival in Late Sixteenth-Century Vienna: The Case of Georg Eder (1523-87).(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2008
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Elaine Fulton. Catholic Belief and Survival in Late Sixteenth-Century Vienna: The Case of Georg Eder (1523-87).
St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xx + 190 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5652-4.
In her solid first book, the author investigates the career of Georg Eder, a prominent figure in Vienna and in the imperial government from the early 1550s into the 1580s, and a bulwark of the Catholic Reform there. Such a study is long overdue, as she points out, and for it she has uncovered a number of new sources; indeed, she exhibits familiarity with a wide range of sources in ...