Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
Cambridge University Press, 1/11/2017
EAN 9781107088436, ISBN10: 1107088437
Hardcover, 412 pages, 23.5 x 15.7 x 2.2 cm
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.
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.