Diversity and Dissent : : Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800 / / ed. by Howard Louthan, Gary B. Cohen, Franz A. J. Szabo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Brady, Thomas A.,; Dmitriev, Mikhail V.,; Friedeburg, Robert von,; Heal, Bridget,; Kaplan, Debra,; Knoll, Paul W.,; Louthan, Howard,; Luebke, David M.,; Maia, Petr,; Pörtner, Regina,; Schunka, Alexander,; Wangermann, Ernst,
• HerausgeberIn: Cohen, Gary B.,; Louthan, Howard,; Szabo, Franz A. J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Early modern Central Europe was the continent’s most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe’s most religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in terms of confessional conflict and war. Focusing on the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this volume examines the tremendous challenge of managing confessional diversity in Central Europe between 1500 and 1800. Addressing issues of tolerance, intolerance, and ecumenism, each chapter explores a facet of the complex dynamic between the state and the region’s Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Utraquist, and Jewish communities. The development of religious toleration—one of the most debated questions of the early modern period—is examined here afresh, with careful consideration of the factors and conditions that led to both confessional concord and religious violence.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction. Between Conflict and Concord: Th e Challenge of Religious Diversity in Central Europe -- 1. Constructing and Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The High Nobility and the Reformation of Bohemia -- 2. Religious Toleration in Sixteenth-Century Poland: Political Realities and Social Constraints -- 3. Customs of Confession: Managing Religious Diversity in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Westphalia -- 4. Cuius regio, eius religio: Th e Ambivalent Meanings of State Building in Protestant Germany, 1555–1655 -- 5. The Entropy of Coercion in the Holy Roman Empire: Jews, Heretics, Witches -- 6. Conflict and Concord in Early Modern Poland: Catholics and Orthodox at the Union of Brest -- 7. Confessionalization and the Jews: Impacts and Parallels in the City of Strasbourg -- 8. Mary “Triumphant over Demons and Also Heretics”: Religious Symbols and Confessional Uniformity in Catholic Germany -- 9. Heresy and Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy -- 10. Union, Reunion, or Toleration? Reconciliatory Attempts among Eighteenth-Century Protestants -- 11. Confessional Uniformity, Toleration, Freedom of Religion: An Issue for Enlightened Absolutism in the Eighteenth Century -- Select Bibliography -- Index