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Strange Brethren : Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608 /
"Strange Brethren traces the first half century of refugee life in Frankfurt am Main, a major destination for refugees, beginning in 1554 when the city granted twenty-four families of foreign Protestants fleeing religious persecution housing, workspace, and their own church, through the arrival...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "Strange Brethren traces the first half century of refugee life in Frankfurt am Main, a major destination for refugees, beginning in 1554 when the city granted twenty-four families of foreign Protestants fleeing religious persecution housing, workspace, and their own church, through the arrival of thousands more refugees. Scholz shows how the arrival of these refugees transformed Christianity in Frankfurt, with the city's Protestants dividing into competing camps that exist to this day-Lutheran natives and Reformed (Calvinist) foreigners"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813946764 |