A Companion to Multiconfessionalism in the Early Modern World

513 Pages·2011·3.534 MB·English

by  Thomas Max Safley

A Companion to Multiconfessionalism
in the Early Modern World
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Brill’s Companions
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Christian Tradition
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on the intellectual and religious life of Europe,
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Editor-in-Chief
Christopher M. Bellitto
(Kean University)
VOLUME 28
A Companion to Multiconfessionalism
in the Early Modern World
Edited by
Thomas Max Safley
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2011
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A companion to multiconfessionalism in the early modern world / edited by Thomas
Max Safley.
p. cm. — (Brill’s companions to the Christian tradition, ISSN 1871-6377 ; v. 28)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-20697-7 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Church history—Modern
period, 1500– 2. Religious pluralism—Christianity—History. 3. Religious pluralism—
Europe—History. 4. Church and state—Europe—History. 5. Europe—Church
history. I. Safley, Thomas Max.
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CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors ...................................................................... ix
Multiconfessionalism: A Brief Introduction ................................. 1
Thomas Max Safley
PART ONE
CONFESSIONS
Confessions ......................................................................................... 23
Lee Palmer Wandel
PART TWO
THE NETHERLANDS
Confessional Coexistence in the Early Modern
Low Countries .............................................................................. 47
Jesse Spohnholz
Multiconfessionalism in a Commercial Metropolis: The Case
of 16th-Century Antwerp ............................................................ 75
Guido Marnef
“In Equality and Enjoying the Same Favor”: Biconfessionalism
in the Low Countries .................................................................... 99
Benjamin J. Kaplan
PART THREE
THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
A Multiconfessional Empire ............................................................ 129
David M. Luebke
vi contents
Protestant Imperial Knights, Multiconfessionalism, and
the Counter-Reformation ............................................................ 155
Richard J. Ninness
Multiconfessionalism in the Holy Roman Empire: The Case
of Colmar, 1550–1750 .................................................................. 179
Peter G. Wallace
PART FOUR
FRANCE
France: An Overview ........................................................................ 209
Keith P. Luria
Peace Commissioners at the Beginning of the Wars of Religion:
Toward an Interactionist Interpretation of the Pacification
Process in France ........................................................................... 239
Jérémie Foa
One Town, Two Faiths: Unity and Exclusion during the
French Religious Wars ................................................................. 265
Penny Roberts
PART FIVE
BRITAIN
Multiconfessionalism in Early Modern Britain ............................ 289
Bernard Capp
Early Modern Ireland as Multiconfessional State ........................ 317
Raymond Gillespie
European Multiconfessionalism and the English Toleration
Controversy, 1640–1660 ............................................................... 341
John Coffey
contents vii
PART SIX
CENTRAL EUROPE
Multiconfessionalism in Central Europe ....................................... 369
Howard Louthan
Multiconfessionalism in Transylvania ........................................... 393
Graeme Murdock
Five Confessions in One City: Multiconfessionalism in
Early Modern Wilno ..................................................................... 417
David Frick
Works Cited ........................................................................................ 445
Index .................................................................................................... 477

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Bernard Capp is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Emeritus Pro-
fessor of History at the University of Warwick, where he has taught
since 1968. He has published five monographs on early modern Eng-
lish history, and is currently completing a book on “England’s Culture
Wars, 1649–60”.
John Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University
of Leicester. He works on religion, politics, and ideas and is the author
of three books including Persecution and Toleration in Protestant Eng-
land (New York: 2000). Most recently, he has co-edited The Cambridge
Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge, UK: 2008) and Seeing Things
Their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion (Notre Dame,
IN: 2009).
Jérémie Foa teaches history at the University Lyon 2. He specialises
in the history of the Wars of Religion and in peace implementation on
this period. His recent publications include “An Unequal Apportion-
ment. The Conflict over Space between Protestants and Catholics at the
Beginning of the Wars of Religion,” French History 20 (2006): 369–386
and Le Bruit des armes. Mises en formes et désinformations au temps des
guerres de Religion (Paris: 2011), edited with Paul-Alexis Mellet.
David Frick is Professor and former Chairman of the Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berke-
ley. His research focuses on questions of philology and rhetoric, as well
as religion, culture, and society in the Polish-Lithuanian Common-
wealth of the early modern period, especially the seventeenth century.
Among his publications are Polish Sacred Philology in the Reformation
and the Counter-Reformation: Chapters in the History of the Contro-
versies, 1551–1632 (Berkeley: 1989), Rus’ Restored: Selected Writings of
Meletij Smotryc’kyj, 1610–1630 (Cambridge, MA: 2005), and Wilnianie:
Żywoty siedemnastowieczne (Warsaw: 2008).
Raymond Gillespie teaches history at the National University of Ire-
land Maynooth and has written extensively on the social and cultural
history of early modern Ireland, including Devoted People: Belief and
Religion in Early Modern Ireland (Manchester: 1997).