ABSTRACT
Up to 1573, Georg Eder served both his emperor and his faith simultaneously in Vienna. The two were not mutually exclusive: Eder thrived in Vienna between 1550 and 1573, not just as a nominal Catholic but as a man with very public zeal for the preservation and restoration of his religion. This chapter acts as a partner to the one before, with the focus here on Eder’s spiritual rather than his political life. It will reinforce, in part, a theme raised in the preceding chapter: Catholicism, even of the active variety as lived by Eder, was in no way a barrier to success in the court and city of late sixteenth-century Vienna, as long as the imperial authority was treated with reverence.
