1st Edition

Early Modern Toleration New Approaches

Edited By Benjamin J. Kaplan, Jaap Geraerts Copyright 2024
330 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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).