Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance, : Responses to Religious Pluralism in Reformation Europe.

• Superior document: Studies in Central European histories ; Volume 64
• Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer; Victoria Christman (Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth,; Christman, Victoria,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Central European Histories 64.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 267 pages ) :; illustrations, maps.

Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences of religious plurality, providing insights into the developments and drawbacks of religious coexistence in this turbulent period. The essays examine three main groups of actors—the laity, parish clergy, and unacknowledged religious minorities—in pre- and post-Westphalian Europe. Throughout this period, the laity navigated their own often-fluid religious beliefs, the expectations of conformity held by their religious and political leaders, and the complex realities of life that involved interactions with co-religious and non-co-religious family, neighbors, and business associates on a daily basis. Contributors are: James Blakeley, Amy Nelson Burnett, Victoria Christman, Geoffrey Dipple, Timothy G. Fehler, Emily Fisher Gray, Benjamin J. Kaplan, David M. Luebke, David Mayes, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, William Bradford Smith, and Shira Weidenbaum.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Figures and Maps -- Notes on Contributors -- Prologue / Benjamin J. Kaplan -- Defining the Boundaries of Tolerance and Intolerance -- Ideology, Pragmatism, and Coexistence / Victoria Christman -- Resisting Biconfessionalism and Coexistence in the Common Territories of the Western Swiss Confederation* / James Blakeley -- The Persecution of Witches and the Discourse on Toleration in Early Modern Germany / William Bradford Smith -- Coexistence and Confessionalization / Timothy G. Fehler -- Concubinaries as Citizens / David M. Luebke -- Mapping Memory and Arbitrating Good Neighbors -- Imagined Conversations / Shira C. Weidenbaum -- Anabaptists and Seventeenth-Century Arguments for Religious Toleration in Switzerland and the Netherlands* / Geoffrey Dipple -- Celebrating Peace in Biconfessional Augsburg / Emily Fisher Gray -- Discord via Toleration / David Mayes -- Parish Clergy, Patronage Rights, and Regional Politics in the Convent Churches of Welver, 1532–1697* / Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer -- Epilogue / Amy Nelson Burnett -- Back Matter -- Index.