Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation
Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation
The sixteen chapters in this book, written by leading experts in this period's history, offer a new and dramatically different interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in the crucial period between 1500, when northern humanism had begun to make an impact, and 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War. They question the traditional view of a general progression toward greater religious toleration, and instead place religious tolerance and intolerance in their specific social and political contexts.
- Provides a fresh interpretation of tolerance and intolerance in the period
- The first time this issue has been set in its proper social, economic and political context
- Contributors are leading scholars in the history of the 16th and 17th centuries
Reviews & endorsements
"This book of fifteen essays accomplishes what a landmark collection should. Cumulatively, the essays signal a pardigm shift and the reemergence of the practical political context as the analytical framework of choice for explaining advances and declines in tolerance and intolerance in Reformation Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." Ann W. Ramsey, Jrnl of Church & State
"...this fine array of essays,...ought to be required reading for all European historians of ideas as well as those in the field of religious studies." Jill Raitt, The Catholic Historical Review
"...ought to be required reading for all European historians and historians of ideas as well as those in the field of religious studies." Jill Raitt, Catholic Historical Review
"This collection of essays...ofers a fresh perspective on the history of toleration in early modern Europe. ...the collection...manages to cover an impressive chronological, geographical, and topical range; read as a whole, a coherent picture of tolerance and intolerance in early modern Europe emerges that transcends the particular focus of the individual essays." John D. Roth, Church History
Product details
August 1996Hardback
9780521496940
308 pages
236 × 158 × 24 mm
0.574kg
2 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Ole Peter Grell
- 2. The travail of tolerance: containing chaos in Early Modern Europe Heiko A. Oberman
- 3. Preconditions of tolerance and intolerance in sixteenth century Germany Bob Scribner
- 4. Heresy executions in Reformation Europe, 1520–1565 William Monter
- 5. Un Roi, Une Loi, Deux Fois: parameters for the history of Catholic-Reformed co-existence in France, 1555–1685 Philip Benedict
- 6. Confession, conscience, and honour: the limits of magisterial tolerance in sixteenth-century Strassburg Lorna Jane Abray
- 7. One Reformation or many? Protestant identities in the Later Reformation in Germany Euan Cameron
- 8. Toleration in the Early Swiss Reformation: the art and politics of Niklaus Manuel of Berne Bruce Gordon
- 9. Tolerance and intolerance in sixteenth-century Basle Hans R. Guggisberg
- 10. Exile and tolerance Ole Peter Grell
- 11. The politics of toleration in the Free Netherlands, 1572–1620 Andrew Pettegree
- 12. Archbishop Cranmer: concord and tolerance in a changing church Diarmaid MacCullogh
- 13. Toleration for catholics in the Puritan Revolution Norah Carlin
- 14. The question of tolerance in Bohemia and Moravia in the age of the Reformation Jaroslav Pánek
- 15. Tolerance and intolerance in sixteenth-century Hungary Katalin Péter
- 16. Protestant confessionalization in the towns of Royal Prussia and the practice of religious toleration in Poland-Lithuania Michael G. Müller.
