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Author Kaplan, Benjamin J., author.

Title Divided by faith : religious conflict and the practice of toleration in early modern Europe / Benjamin J. Kaplan
Published Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 415 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Obstacles -- A holy zeal -- Corpus christianum -- Flashpoints -- One faith, one law, one king -- Arrangements -- The gold coin -- Crossing borders -- Fictions of privacy -- Sharing churches, sharing power -- Interactions -- A friend to the person -- Transgressions -- Infidels -- Changes -- Enlightenment
Summary As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Benjamin Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Religious tolerance -- Europe -- History
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Religion
Religious tolerance
SUBJECT Europe -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045633
Europe -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045751
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674039308
0674039300