A Companion to Multiconfessionalism in the Early Modern World

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20697-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 953 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

In the sixteenth century, the Christian church and Christian worship fragmented into a multiplicity of confessions that has grown to the present day. The essays in this volume demonstrate that multiconfessionalism, understood as the legally recognized and politically supported coexistence of two or more confessions in a single polity, was the rule rather than the exception for most of early modern Europe. The contributors examine its causes and effects. They demonstrate that local religious groups across the continent could cooperate with confessional opponents and oppose political authorities to make decisions about their religious lives, depending on local conditions and contingencies. In so doing, this volume offers a new vision of religion, state, and society in early modern Europe.

Contributors include: Bernard Capp, John R. D. Coffey, Jérémie Foa, David Frick, Raymond Gillespie, Benjamin Kaplan, Howard Louthan, David Luebke, Keith Luria, Guido Marnef, Graeme Murdock, Richard Ninness, Penny Roberts, Jesse Spohnholz, Peter Wallace, Lee Palmer Wandel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Safley, Thomas Max

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors. ix
Multiconfessionalism: A Brief Introduction. 1
Thomas Max Safley

PART ONE: CONFESSIONS
Confessions. 23
Lee Palmer Wandel

PART TWO: THE NETHERLANDS
Confessional Coexistence in the Early Modern Low Countries. 47
Jesse Spohnholz
Multiconfessionalism in a Commercial Metropolis: The Case of 16th-Century Antwerp. 75
Guido Marnef
“In Equality and Enjoying the Same Favor”: Biconfessionalism in the Low Countries. 99
Benjamin J. Kaplan

PART THREE: THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
A Multiconfessional Empire. 129
David M. Luebke
vi contents
Protestant Imperial Knights, Multiconfessionalism, and the Counter-Reformation. 155
Richard J. Ninness
Multiconfessionalism in the Holy Roman Empire: The Case of Colmar, 1550–1750. 179
Peter G. Wallace

PART FOUR: FRANCE
France: An Overview. 209
Keith P. Luria
Peace Commissioners at the Beginning of the Wars of Religion: Toward an Interactionist Interpretation of the Pacification Process in France. 239
Jérémie Foa
One Town, Two Faiths: Unity and Exclusion during the French Religious Wars. 265
Penny Roberts

PART FIVE: BRITAIN
Multiconfessionalism in Early Modern Britain. 289
Bernard Capp
Early Modern Ireland as Multiconfessional State. 317
Raymond Gillespie
European Multiconfessionalism and the English Toleration Controversy, 1640–1660. 341
John Coffey

PART SIX
CENTRAL EUROPE
Multiconfessionalism in Central Europe. 369
Howard Louthan
Multiconfessionalism in Transylvania. 393
Graeme Murdock
Five Confessions in One City: Multiconfessionalism in Early Modern Wilno. 417
David Frick
Works Cited. 445
Index. 477

Über Autor(innen)

Safley, Thomas Max
Thomas Max Safley is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published extensively on the social and economic history of early modern Europe, in which multiconfessionalism played a substantial role.