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Diversity and dissent : negotiating religious differences in Central Europe, 1500-1800 /

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 co...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Louthan, Howard, 1963- (Editor ), Cohen, Gary B. (Editor ), Szabo, Franz A. J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 Maťa 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.