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Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe
This work reassesses Europe's infamous religious wars through the history of religious peace before, during and after the wars.
Wayne P. Te Brake (Author)
9781107459229, Cambridge University Press
Paperback / softback, published 11 January 2017
410 pages, 58 b/w illus. 4 tables
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.8 cm, 0.66 kg
'Te Brake is expert in tracing military engagements, popular uprisings, violence and destruction, and then political outcomes, ad hoc tolerance, and compromises. This comparative approach is especially helpful in understanding what Te Brake himself describes as messy and complicated transformations that slowly (and after a great deal of destruction) led to the establishment of religious diversity throughout Europe by the end of the seventeenth century … well-written and well-organized …' Rudolph P. Almasy, Anglican and Episcopal History
Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe presents a novel account of the origins of religious pluralism in Europe. Combining comparative historical analysis with contentious political analysis, it surveys six clusters of increasingly destructive religious wars between 1529 and 1651, analyzes the diverse settlements that brought these wars to an end, and describes the complex religious peace that emerged from two centuries of experimentation in accommodating religious differences. Rejecting the older authoritarian interpretations of the age of religious wars, the author uses traditional documentary sources as well as photographic evidence to show how a broad range Europeans - from authoritative elites to a colorful array of religious 'dissenters' - replaced the cultural 'unity and purity' of late-medieval Christendom with a variable and durable pattern of religious diversity, deeply embedded in political, legal, and cultural institutions.
1. Religion and violence, war and peace
Part I. 1529–55: 2. Wars and rumors of war
3. Managing conflict, validating diversity
4. The contours of religious peace I: Central Europe
Part II. 1562–1609: 5. Religious war unleashed
6. An elusive peace
7. Ending war, shaping peace
8. The contours of religious peace II: Western Europe
Part III. 1618–51: 9. Climax and denouement
10. Grudging consent
11. The contours of religious peace III: the Continent
12. The contours of religious peace IV: Great Britain
Conclusion: 13. Envisioning religious peace
Bibliography
Index.
Subject Areas: History of religion [HRAX], Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD]