04037nam 2200661 a 450 991078135550332120200520144314.00-85745-109-X10.1515/9780857451095(CKB)2550000000035157(EBL)710956(OCoLC)727649468(SSID)ssj0000535930(PQKBManifestationID)12179768(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535930(PQKBWorkID)10546248(PQKB)10184410(MiAaPQ)EBC710956(Au-PeEL)EBL710956(CaPaEBR)ebr10469338(CaONFJC)MIL536810(DE-B1597)636016(DE-B1597)9780857451095(EXLCZ)99255000000003515720101220d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDiversity and dissent[electronic resource] negotiating religious differences in Central Europe, 1500-1800 /edited by Howard Louthan, Gary B. Cohen, and Franz A.J. Szabo1st ed.New York Berghahn Books20111 online resource (252 p.)Austrian and Habsburg studies ;v. 11Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-108-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.DIVERSITY AND DISSENT; Contents; Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction - Between Conflict and Concord: The Challenge of Religious Diversity in Central Europe; Chapter 1 - Constructing and Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The High Nobility and the Reformation of Bohemia; Chapter 2 - Religious Toleration in Sixteenth-Century Poland: Political Realities and Social Constraints; Chapter 3 - Customs of Confession: Managing Religious Diversity in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century WestphaliaChapter 4 - Cuius Regio, Eius Religio: The Ambivalent Meanings of State Building in Protestant Germany, 1555-1655Chapter 5 - The Entropy of Coercion in the Holy Roman Empire: Jews, Heretics, Witches; Chapter 6 - Conflict and Concord in Early Modern Poland: Catholics and Orthodox at the Union of Brest; Chapter 7 - Confessionalization and the Jews: Impacts and Parallels in the City of Strasbourg; Chapter 8 - Mary ""Triumphant over Demons and Also Heretics"": Religious Symbols and Confessional Uniformity in Catholic GermanyChapter 9 - Heresy and Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg MonarchyChapter 10 - Union, Reunion, or Toleration? Reconciliatory Attempts among Eighteenth-Century Protestants; Chapter 11 - Confessional Uniformity, Toleration, Freedom of Religion: An Issue for Enlightened Absolutism in the Eighteenth Century; Select Bibliography; IndexEarly modern Central Europe was the continent's most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe's most religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in terms of confessional conflict and war. Focusing on the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this volume examines the tremendous challenge of managing confessional diversity in Central Europe between 1500 and 1800. Addressing issues of tolerance, intolerance, and ecumenism, each chapter explores a facet of the cAustrian and Habsburg studies ;v. 11.Religious toleranceEurope, CentralHistoryEurope, CentralReligionEurope, CentralChurch historyReligious toleranceHistory.200.943/0903Louthan Howard1963-1528059Cohen Gary B676720Szabo Franz A. J918606MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781355503321Diversity and dissent3771465UNINA