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Living with Religious Diversity in Early-Modern Europe
328 Pages
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Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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Current scholarship continues to emphasise both the importance and the sheer diversity of religious beliefs within early modern societies. Furthermore, it continues to show that, despite the wishes of secular and religious leaders, confessional uniformity was in many cases impossible to enforce. As the essays in this collection make clear, many people in Reformation Europe were forced to confront... Read more
Contents: Introduction: living with religious diversity in early modern Europe, C. Scott Dixon; How plural were the religious worlds in early modern Europe? Critical reflections from the Netherlandic experience, Willem Frijhoff; Emblems of coexistence in a confessional world, Wayne Te Brake; Art, religious diversity and confessional identity in early-modern Transylvania, Maria Craciun; The power of conscience? Conversion and confessional boundary building in early-modern France, Keith P. Luria; The Counter-Reformation and popular piety in Vienna - a case study, Karl Vocelka; Protestants and fairies in early-modern England, Peter Marshall; In sickness and in health: medicine and inter-confessional relations in post-Reformation England, Alexandra Walsham; Catholics and community in the Revolt of the Netherlands, Judith Pollmann; Crossing religious borders: the experience of religious difference and its impact on mixed marriages in 18th-century Germany, Dagmar Freist; Intimate negotiations: husbands and wives of opposing faiths in 18th-century Holland, Benjamin J. Kaplan; The emergence of confessional identities: family relationships and religious coexistence in 17th-century Utrecht, Bertrand Forclaz; Religion and the display of power: a Wuerttemberg prince abroad, Dorothea Nolde; Afterword: living religious diversity, Mark Greengrass; Index.
Biography
C. Scott Dixon is from the Queen's University Belfast, UK. Dagmar Freist is from the University of Oldenburg, Germany and Mark Greengrass is from the University of Sheffield, UK
’... [an] excellent volume...’ Catholic Historical Review 'The spirit of this excellent volume is well characterized in its Afterword: There was no high road to toleration, signposted from the Reformation, but only a set of muddy and winding streets, most of them not one-way.' Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 'This volume provides a compelling overview of early modern religious pluralism, reminding us that "coexistence was the rule, rather than the exception, in the Reformation and post-Reformation eras".' Seventeenth Century News 'Living with Religious Diversity in early-Modern Europe offers a salutary reminder that what early modern people professed was not necessarily that same thing as how they lived.' Sixteenth Century Journal
