Between state and church : : confessional relations from reformation to enlightenment : Poland - Lithuania - Germany - Netherlands / / Wojciech Kriegseisen ; translated by Bartosz Wójcik ; and copy-edited by Alexa Shannon.

• Superior document: Polish studies - transdisciplinary perspectives ; Volume 16
• VerfasserIn: Kriegseisen, Wojciech,
• TeilnehmendeR: Wójcik, Bartosz,; Shannon, Alexa,
• Place / Publishing House: Frank am Main : : Peter Lang,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Polish studies, transdisciplinary perspectives ; Volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (628 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• ISBN: 3653999022; 3653023750
• Access: Open access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Wojciech Kriegseisen ; translated by Bartosz Wójcik ; and copy-edited by Alexa Shannon.

"The different theoretical notions and practices of the relations between the state and religious communities in early modern Europe constitute one of the most interesting problems in histography. Moving away from a simple "toleration" versus "non-toleration" dichotomy, the author sets out to analyse the inter-confessional relations in selected European territories in a "longue duree" perspective, between Reformation and Enlightenment. Outliningthe relations between the state and the different Churches (confessions) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Holy Roman Empire of Germany, and the Northern Netherlands serves to highlight the specificity of "free" (non-absolutist) composite states, where the particularly complex process of defining the raison d'etat determined the level of religious toleration that was politically feasible and socially acceptable."