Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation

An expert re-interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in early modern Europe.

Ole Peter Grell (Edited by), Bob Scribner (Edited by)

9780521894128, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 20 June 2002

308 pages, 2 tables
22.9 x 15.3 x 2.3 cm, 0.502 kg

'Sophisticated in its approaches and detailed in its presentation, this book will contribute significantly to the study of the Reformation.' David Parnham, Journal of Religious History

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.

1. Introduction Ole Peter Grell
2. The travail of tolerance: containing chaos in Early Modern Europe Heiko A. Oberman
3. Preconditions of tolerance and intolerance in sixteenth century Germany Bob Scribner
4. Heresy executions in Reformation Europe, 1520–1565 William Monter
5. Un Roi, Une Loi, Deux Fois: parameters for the history of Catholic-Reformed co-existence in France, 1555–1685 Philip Benedict
6. Confession, conscience, and honour: the limits of magisterial tolerance in sixteenth-century Strassburg Lorna Jane Abray
7. One Reformation or many? Protestant identities in the Later Reformation in Germany Euan Cameron
8. Toleration in the Early Swiss Reformation: the art and politics of Niklaus Manuel of Berne Bruce Gordon
9. Tolerance and intolerance in sixteenth-century Basle Hans R. Guggisberg
10. Exile and tolerance Ole Peter Grell
11. The politics of toleration in the Free Netherlands, 1572–1620 Andrew Pettegree
12. Archbishop Cranmer: concord and tolerance in a changing church Diarmaid MacCullogh
13. Toleration for catholics in the Puritan Revolution Norah Carlin
14. The question of tolerance in Bohemia and Moravia in the age of the Reformation Jaroslav Pánek
15. Tolerance and intolerance in sixteenth-century Hungary Katalin Péter
16. Protestant confessionalization in the towns of Royal Prussia and the practice of religious toleration in Poland-Lithuania Michael G. Müller.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]