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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818125103321

Autore

Kaplan Benjamin J

Titolo

Divided by faith : religious conflict and the practice of toleration in early modern Europe / / Benjamin J. Kaplan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-674-26494-0

0-674-03930-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p. ) : ill., maps

Classificazione

BO 5825

Disciplina

274.06

Soggetti

Religious tolerance - Europe - History

Europe Church history

Europe Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-395) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- Introduction -- I. OBSTACLES -- ONE. A Holy Zeal -- TWO. Corpus Christianum -- THREE. Flashpoints -- FOUR. One Faith, One Law, One King -- II. ARRANGEMENTS -- FIVE. The Gold Coin -- SIX. Crossing Borders -- SEVEN. Fictions of Privacy -- EIGHT. Sharing Churches, Sharing Power -- III. INTERACTIONS -- NINE. A Friend to the Person -- TEN. Transgressions -- ELEVEN. Infidels -- IV. CHANGES -- TWELVE. Enlightenment? -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today. Divided by Faith is both history from the bottom up and a much-needed challenge to our belief in the triumph of reason over faith. This compelling story reveals that toleration has taken many guises in the past and suggests that it may well do the same in the future.