1st Edition

Early Modern Diasporas A European History

By Mathilde Monge, Natalia Muchnik Copyright 2022
284 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is the first encompassing history of diasporas in Europe between 1500 and 1800.  Huguenots, Sephardim, British Catholics, Mennonites, Moriscos, Moravian Brethren, Quakers, Ashkenazim… what do these populations who roamed Europe in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have in common? Despite an extensive historiography of diasporas, publications have tended to focus on the history of... Read more

Chapter 1. The Tribulations of an "Umbrella Term"

Chapter 2. Shared Memory, Culture, and Religion

Chapter 3. Migration and Social Ties

Chapter 4. Diasporic Metropolises

Chapter 5. Temporalities and Diasporic Segments

Chapter 6. Diasporas and Political Authorities

Chapter 7. Aggregation, Segregation, Neighbouring

Chapter 8. Minorities in the City

Chapter 9. Inter-diasporic relationships

Conclusion

Biography

Mathilde Monge is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toulouse (Université Toulouse 2-Jean Jaurès). She has written on Anabaptist minorities in Early Modern Germany and religious coexistence in Europe, and her current research focuses on relief networks of Early Modern diasporas.

 

Natalia Muchnik is a Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), in Paris. She has written on religious minorities and diasporas in Early Modern Europe, including Sephardim, Moriscos, Recusants and French Huguenots. Her current research focuses on Early Modern prisons.