Diversity and Dissent: Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800 (Austrian and Habsburg Studies, 11) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857451081 ISBN 13: 9780857451088

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

“This volume gives a good, comparative insight into the construction of denominational affiliations, the inter-denominational understanding and the conflicts in political and everyday life in Central Europe.”  ·  Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857451081
• ISBN 13: 9780857451088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Louthan Howard, Cohen Gary B., Szabo Franz A. J.