Converting Bohemia: Force and Persuasion in the Catholic Reformation (New Studies in European History) - Softcover

Louthan, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107403553 ISBN 13: 9781107403550

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Prior to the Thirty Years War, almost all of Bohemia's population lay outside the Catholic fold, yet by the beginning of the eighteenth century the kingdom was clearly under Rome's influence. Few regions in Europe's history have ever experienced such a complete religious transformation; because of this, Bohemia offers a unique window for examining the Counter-Reformation and the nature of early modern Catholicism. Converting Bohemia presents a full assessment of the Catholic Church's re-establishment in the Czech lands, arguing that this complex phenomenon was less a product of violence and force than of negotiation and persuasion. Ranging from art, architecture and literature to music, philosophy and hagiography, Howard Louthan's study reintegrates the region into the broader European world where it played such a prominent role in the early modern period. It will be of particular interest to scholars of early modern European history, religion, and Reformation studies.

About this title

Book Description:

Few regions in European history have experienced such a complete religious transformation as Bohemia. This wide-ranging examination of its history and culture, ranging from art, architecture and literature to music, philosophy and hagiography, sheds light on the Counter-Reformation and the nature of early modern Catholicism.

About the Author:

Howard Louthan is Associate Professor in the History Department, University of Florida. He is the author of The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1107403553
• ISBN 13: 9781107403550
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368