Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe

Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe

Author: Wayne P. Te Brake

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-01-11

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 1316839478

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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.


Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500-1800

Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500-1800

Author: John Huxtable Elliott

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2009-06-29

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0300160011

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When J. H. Elliott published Spain and Its World, 1500?1700 some twenty years ago, one of many enthusiasts declared, ?For anyone interested in the history of empire, of Europe and of Spain, here is a book to keep within reach, to read, to study and to enjoy" (Times Literary Supplement). Since then Elliott has continued to explore the history of Spain and the Hispanic world with originality and insight, producing some of the most influential work in the field. In this new volume he gathers writings that reflect his recent research and thinking on politics, art, culture, and ideas in Europe and the colonial worlds between 1500 and 1800.The volume includes fourteen essays, lectures, and articles of remarkable breadth and freshness, written with Elliott's characteristic brio. It includes an unpublished lecture in honor of the late Hugh Trevor-Roper. Organized around three themes?early modern Europe, European overseas expansion, and the works and historical context of El Greco, Velzquez, Rubens, and Van Dyck?the book offers a rich survey of the themes at the heart of Elliott's interests throughout a career distinguished by excellence and innovation.


Russia and Courtly Europe

Russia and Courtly Europe

Author: Jan Hennings

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1107050596

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This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia.


The Continuities of German History

The Continuities of German History

Author: Helmut Walser Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-04-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139471252

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This book opens the debate about German history in the long term – about how ideas and political forms are traceable across what historians have taken to be the sharp breaks of German history. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-century explanations for the catastrophes at the center of German history. Against conventional wisdom, he considers continuities - nation and nationalism, religion and religious exclusion, racism and violence - that are the center of the German historical experience and that have long histories. Smith explores these deep continuities in novel ways, emphasizing their importance, while arguing that Germany was not on a special path to destruction. The result is a series of innovative reflections on the crystallization of nationalist ideology, on patterns of anti-Semitism, and on how the nineteenth-century vocabulary of race structured the twentieth-century genocidal imagination.


The Peace of Westphalia

The Peace of Westphalia

Author: Derek Croxton

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13:

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The peace of Westphalia constituted a watershed in early modern history. It guided a number of political, territorial, and legal decisions that determined the internal politics of the Holy Roman Empire and the international landscape. This work provides an insight into the Peace of Westphalia.


The Making of the Humanities

The Making of the Humanities

Author: Rens Bod

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published:

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 9089642692

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This first volume in 'The making of the humanities' series focuses on the early modern period. Specialists from various disciplines offer their view on the history of linguistics, literary studies, musicology, historiography, and philosophy.


Graphic History

Graphic History

Author: Philip Benedict

Publisher: Librairie Droz

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9782600004404

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The suite of forty prints published in Geneva in 1570 depicting the wars, massacres and troubles of the French Wars of Religion may have been the first picture history made in woodcuts or etchings that promised a geenral public a true view of great events of the recent past. This richly illustrated study reconstructs the gradual elaboration of this experimental work, situating it within the previously untold story of the use of the graphic arts to report the news in the fist centuries of European printmaking. Successive chapters explore the pictorial traditions that inspired the printmakers, examine how they gathered their information, assess the reliability of the scenes, and analyze the historical vision informing the series. Part 2 reproduces the full suite with commentary in double page fold-outs. Through the study of a single print series, lost chapters in the history of jorunalism, of the graphic arts, and of Protestant historical consciousness re-emerge.


Rethinking Europe

Rethinking Europe

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-07-01

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 900440192X

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The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) lies at the intersection of early modern and modern times. Frequently portrayed as the concluding chapter of the Reformation, it also points to the future by precipitating fundamental changes in the military, legal, political, religious, economic, and cultural arenas that came to mark a new, the modern era. Prompted by the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, the contributors reconsider the event itself and contextualize it within the broader history of the Reformation, military conflicts, peace initiatives, and negotiations of war.