Acknowledgements List of Figures and Maps Abbreviations Notes on Conventions Introduction 1 The Childish Work of the Image Question 2 The Image Question in Historical Perspective 3 Württemberg and the Image Question 4 Building the Württemberg Church--Nobility, Pastors, and Parishioners Part1 The Beautiful Decoration--The Ducal House of Württemberg Introduction 1 The Württemberg Reformation1 Debating Images: The Württemberg Dukes and the Image Question in the Sixteenth Century 1 The Image Question before the Peace of Augsburg 2 The Augsburg Interim 3 Württemberg after the Peace of Augsburg 4 Württemberg Church Interiors at the End of the Sixteenth Century 5 Conclusion2 Commissioning Images: Artists and Lutheran Art at the Württemberg Court 1 Artists and Art Markets in Württemberg 2 The Mömpelgard and Gotha Altarpieces 3 The Stuttgart Castle Chapel 4 The Stuttgart Lusthaus 5 Conclusion Part2 The Master Builders--Pastors Introduction 3 Defining Images: Württemberg Pastors and the Demarcation of Church Space 1 Freudenstadt 2 Kirchheim unter Teck 3 Teaching with Church Interiors 4 Conclusion4 Overseeing Images: Württemberg Pastors and the Management of Church Interiors 1 Supporting Church Interiors 2 Securing Funding 3 Controlling Church Interiors--The Case of Ennabeuren 4 Conclusion Part3 The Building Bricks--Congregations and Individuals Introduction 5 Bequeathing Images: Donors and Donation in the Later Reformation 1 Supporting Church Interiors 2 Donors and Donations 3 Conclusion6 Commemorating Images: Memory, Piety and the Lutheran Funerary Monument 1 To Demonstrate Faith 2 To Demonstrate Love 3 To Be of Use to the Living 4 Conclusion7 Contemplating Images: Magdalena Sibylla von Württemberg and Lutheran Visual Piety in the Late Seventeenth Century 1 The Stetten Emblem Cycle 2 Lutheranism in Seventeenth-Century Württemberg 3 The Image Question and Ways of Seeing in the Late Seventeenth Century 4 Reading the Stetten Emblems 5 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index.