Diversity and Dissent : : Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800 /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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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

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