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Preface xi -- 1 Spengler's Family and His City 3 -- 2 Broadening Interests and Concerns 17 -- 3 From Christian Humanist to Lutheran 31 -- 4 Early Religious Changes 45 -- 5 The Road to Reformation 57 -- 6 The Break with Rome 73 -- 7 Social and Religious Ferment 93 -- 8 New Structures 109 -- 9 Nuremberg and the Diets of Speyer, 1526-1529 121 -- 10 The Question of a Protestant Alliance 137 -- 11 Diplomacy of Nuremberg, 1530-1534 157 -- 12 Spengler's Last Years 169 -- Notes 183 -- Bibliography 211 -- Index 229