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Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe

Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

Religion General General European HistoryGeneral Military History

ISBN10: 1107459222
ISBN13: 9781107459229
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jan 11 2017
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
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.

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