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Early Modern Toleration New Approaches
This book examines the practice of toleration and the experience of religious diversity in the early modern world.
Recent scholarship has shown the myriad ways in which religious differences were accommodated in the early modern era (1500–1800). This book propels this revisionist wave further by linking the accommodation of religious diversity in early modern communities to the experience of this diversity by individuals. It does so by studying the forms and patterns of interaction between members of different religious groups, including Christian denominations, Muslims, and Jews, in territories ranging from Europe to the Americas and South-East Asia. This book is structured around five key concepts: the senses, identities, boundaries, interaction, and space. For each concept, the book provides chapters based on new, original research plus an introduction that situates the chapters in their historiographic context.
Early Modern Toleration: New Approaches is aimed primarily at undergraduate and postgraduate students, to whom it offers an accessible introduction to the study of religious toleration in the early modern era. Additionally, scholars will find cutting-edge contributions to the field in the book’s chapters.
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: Early Modern Toleration
BENJAMIN J. KAPLAN AND JAAP GERAERTS
PART I: Sensing the Other
Historiographic Introduction
1 “To Preserve and Instill the Beloved Peace”: Religious Invective
and Confessional Coexistence under the Peace of Augsburg
ALLYSON F. CREASMAN
2 The Acoustics of Peace: Singing and Religious Coexistence
in Seventeenth-Century Mechelen
MATTHEW LAUBE
3 Tuning Catholicism in the Dutch Republic: Catholic
Soundscapes in a Calvinist Society, c. 1600–1750
CAROLINA LENARDUZZI
PART II: Asserting Identities
Historiographic Introduction
4 At the Crossroads of Identity: Conversos and Moriscos in
Inquisitorial Spain (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
NATALIA MUCHNIK
5 Memory, Toleration, and Conflict after the French Wars
of Religion
DAVID VAN DER LINDEN
PART III: Crossing Boundaries
Historiographic Introduction
6 Constitutional Dynamism and Demographic Diversity in
Early Modern Confessional Coexistence: Dutch Reformed
Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire, 1554–1596
JESSE SPOHNHOLZ
7 Ambivalent Neighbours: Sensory and Spatial Dynamics
of Religious Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany
NICHOLAS TERPSTRA
8 Crossing Borders?: Conversions and Mixed Marriages in
Ottoman Bilād al-Shām (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)
FELICITA TRAMONTANA
PART IV: Interacting and Engaging
Historiographic Introduction 195
9 Catholic Merchants in British Commerce in the Age
of Mercantilism
GIADA PIZZONI
10 Conquest, Colonialism, and Religious Conflict in the
Moluccas in the Early Seventeenth Century
HENDRIK E. NIEMEIJER
PART V: Sharing Space
Historiographic Introduction
11 A Middle Path to Toleration?: Sharing Sacred Spaces
in Bautzen and Wetzlar, 1523–1625
DAVID M. LUEBKE
12 From Contested Space to Sacred Topography: Jews,
Protestants, and Catholics in Reformation Cracow
ANAT VATURI
13 Confessional Boundaries and Transconfessional Spaces in Late
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British North America
SUSANNE LACHENICHT
Selected Readings
Index
Biography
Benjamin J. Kaplan, Professor of Dutch History, University College London. He has published widely on the history of relations between religious groups in early modern Europe. Among his books is Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe (2007).
Jaap Geraerts, Digital Humanities Lab, Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz. His research interests comprise the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, religious toleration, and the digital humanities. Publications include Patrons of the Old Faith: The Catholic Nobility in Utrecht and Guelders, c. 1580–1702 (2018).
