Diversity and Dissent

Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-108-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Louthan, Howard

Cohen, Gary B

Szabo, Franz A J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

Introduction:Between Conflict and Concord: The Challenge of Religious Diversity in Central Europe

Howard Louthan 

Chapter 1. Constructing and Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The High Nobility and the Reformation of Bohemia

Petr Mata

Chapter 2. Religious Toleration in Sixteenth Century Poland: Political Realities and Social Constraints

Paul W. Knoll

Chapter 3. Customs of Confession: Managing Religious Diversity in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Westphalia

David M. Luebke

Chapter 4. Cuius region, eius religio: The ambivalent meanings of state building in Protestant Germany, 1555-1655

Robert von Friedeburg

Chapter 5. The Entropy of Coercion in the Holy Roman Empire: Jews, Heretics, Witches

Thomas A. Brady, Jr.

Chapter 6. Conflict and Concord in Early Modern Poland: Catholics and Orthodox at the Union of Brest

Mikhail V. Dmitriev

Chapter 7. Confessionalization and the Jews: Impacts and Parallels in the City of Strasbourg

Debra Kaplan

Chapter 8. Mary “triumphant over demons and also heretics”: Religious symbols and confessional uniformity in Catholic Germamy

Bridget Heal

Chapter 9. Heresy and Literacy in the Eighteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy

Regina Pörtner

Chapter 10. Union, Reunion, or Toleration? Reconciliatory Attempts among Eighteenth-century Protestants

Alexander Schunka

Chapter 11. Confessional Uniformity, Toleration, Freedom of Religion: An Issue for Enlightened Absolutism in the Eighteenth Century

Ernst Wangermann

Notes on Contributors

Select Bibliography

Figures

Figure 1. Master of St. Severin rosary altar

Figure 2. Rosary image, Cologne

Figure 3. Bartolomäus Bruyn the Elder, Tryptich

Figure 4. Sixteenth-century panels, Virign and Child

Figure 5. Arrival of Gustav Adolph, Augsbury 1632

Figure 6. Altarpiece, Parish Church, Sebes, c. 1524-6

Über Autor(innen)

Louthan, Howard
Howard Louthan is Professor of History at the University of Florida. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Central Europe. Among his books are The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (Cambridge, 1997) and Converting Bohemia: Force and Persuasion in the Catholic Reformation (Cambridge, 2009).

Cohen, Gary B
Gary B. Cohen is Professor and Chair of History and former director of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He teaches modern Central European social and political history and has published numerous articles and essays as well as two books in these areas.

Szabo, Franz A J
Franz A. J. Szabo is director of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies and Professor of Austrian and Habsburg History at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He has published widely in Europe and North America, including a prizewinning book on Habsburg enlightened absolutism and a recent study of the Seven Years War.

Gary B. Cohen is Professor and Chair of History and former director of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He teaches modern Central European social and political history and has published numerous articles and essays as well as two books in these areas.