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Title Forgetting faith? : negotiating confessional conflict in early modern Europe / edited by Isabel Karremann, Cornel Zwierlein, Inga Mai Groote
Published Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 287 pages)
Series Pluralisierung & Autorität, 2076-8281 ; Bd. 28
Pluralisierung & Autorität ; Bd. 28. 2076-8281
Contents Introduction; Too Long for a Play: Shakespeare and the Wars of Religion; Caesarean Negotiations: Forgetting Henri IV's Past after the French Wars of Religion; The Historical Sublime in Shakespeare's Richard II; Flooding Faith: Forgetfulness in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy; Forgotten Religions, Religions that Cause Forgetting; Controversy and Reconciliation: Grotius, Vondel and the Debate on Religious Peace in the Dutch Republic; The Renaissance Musician and Theorist Confronted with Religious Fragmentation: Conflict, Betrayal and Dissimulation
'Of no church': Immigrants, liefhebbers and Confessional Diversity in Elizabethan London, c. 1568-1581Trading Goods -- Trading Faith? Religious Conflict and Commercial Interests in Early Modern Spain; "Familiar Strangers": Dissimulation, Tolerance and Faith in Early Anglo-Ottoman Travel; Perpetual Oblivion? Remembering Westphalia in a Post-Secular Age; Index
Summary Early modern Europe faced a host of confessional conflicts. The Reformation brought about struggles over religious rites and doctrines as well as the persecution of secret adherents and forbidden practices. So far, the issues of religious pluralisation and the divisions between Catholic and Protestant positions, among sectarian movements, or between the church and the state, have been debated mostly in terms of dissent and escalation. Yet despite the centrality of confessional conflict, it did not always erupt into hostilities. Rather, everyday life had to go on, people had to arrange themselv
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Religion and civil society -- Europe
Religion and sociology -- Europe
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Religion and civil society
Religion and sociology
SUBJECT Europe -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045633
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Church history
Form Electronic book
Author Karremann, Isabel
Zwierlein, Cornel
Groote, Inga Mai
ISBN 9783110267525
3110267527
9783110270051
3110270056
9783110270068
3110270064
9781280597381
1280597380