Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia

Richard L. Gawthrop

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511523311

How did as small and backward a state as Prussia transform itself to compete successfully in war against states with far greater human and financial resources? Richard Gawthrop finds the answer to this perennial question in the creation of a unique political culture, in which service to the Prussian state took precedence over all other relationships and commitments. The campaign to inculcate the new ideology of disciplined energetic obedience to the state authority derived its moral vision and institutional forms from Lutheran Pietism, a German version of ascetic Protestantism strongly influenced by English Puritanism. This work describes systematically how the collaboration between Pietism and the Prussian state not only led to an increase in the latter's power but also laid the cultural basis for the subsequent political modernization of Germany.

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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Introduction
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1 - The German territorial state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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2 - Reformed confessionalism and the reign of the Great Elector
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3 - The nature of the pre-1713 Hohenzollern state
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4 - Lutheran confessionalism
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5 - Spenerian Pietism
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6 - From Spener to Francke
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7 - Halle Pietism I: ideology and indoctrination
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8 - Halle Pietism II: growth and crisis
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9 - Pietist–Hohenzollern collaboration
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10 - The impact of Pietist pedagogy on the Prussian army and bureaucracy
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11 - Civilian mobilization and economic development during the reign of Frederick William I
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-13

1 - The German territorial state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
pp 14-35

2 - Reformed confessionalism and the reign of the Great Elector
pp 36-59

3 - The nature of the pre-1713 Hohenzollern state
pp 60-79

4 - Lutheran confessionalism
pp 80-103

5 - Spenerian Pietism
pp 104-120

6 - From Spener to Francke
pp 121-149

7 - Halle Pietism I: ideology and indoctrination
pp 150-175

8 - Halle Pietism II: growth and crisis
pp 176-199

9 - Pietist–Hohenzollern collaboration
pp 200-222

10 - The impact of Pietist pedagogy on the Prussian army and bureaucracy
pp 223-246

11 - Civilian mobilization and economic development during the reign of Frederick William I
pp 247-269

Conclusion
pp 270-284

Bibliography
pp 285-300

Index
pp 301-305

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