To the characteristics of historical sources of the Lutheran confessionalization (on the example of Brunswick)

The article discusses historical sources of the Lutheran confessionalization in Brunswick. The author analyses main documental, legal, narrative sources and identifies the features of various sources, such as the church ordinances of Brunswick, school curricula, chronicles, and works of reformers. In conclusion, to understand the composite and contradictory nature of Lutheran confessionalization it is necessary to use the complex of various types of historical sources.