Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation

Ole Peter Grell

ISBN 10: 0521894123 / ISBN 13: 9780521894128

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume offers a re-interpretation of the role of tolerance and intolerance in the European Reformation. It questions the traditional notion of a progressive development towards greater religious toleration from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards. Instead, it places incidents of religious tolerance and intolerance in their specific social and political contexts. Fifteen leading scholars offer a comprehensive interpretation of this subject, covering all the regions of Europe that were directly affected by the Reformation in the crucial period between 1500, when northern humanism had begun to make an impact, and 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War. In this way, Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation provides a dramatically different view of how religious toleration and conflict developed in early modern Europe.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521894123
• ISBN 13: 9780521894128
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 18D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 503 grams

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Synopsis

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.

Review

"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