Christianity under the Ancien Régime, 1648-1789 (New Approaches to European History) PDF
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MMMM This page intentionally left blank ChristianityundertheAncienRe´gime,1648–1789 In the middle of the seventeenth century religious belief and practice wereintrinsicpartsofeverydaylifeandverydiYculttoescape.Professor Ward oVers a brief, but comprehensible, account of Christianity in EuropebetweentheWestphaliasettlements1648andtheFrenchRev- olutionin1789.Thefocusofthebook,however,isnotonthereligious institutionsthemselves,butonpolicy,thatistosaythosethingswhich conservativesandreformers,revivalistsandmissionaries,statesmenand peasants sought to change or preserve in their religious heritage. The bookisorganisedaroundlargeEuropeanregions,forinstance,central and north-western Europe (including Britain), southern Europe, and northern and eastern Europe, and within each chapter the political, socialandintellectualeventsandinXuencesofthetimesarediscussed, thus allowing the reader to understand changes in policy in context. Withitsmaps,glossaryandguidetofurtherreading,thiswillbeamajor aidtostudentsofChristianityundertheAncienRe´gime. w. r. wardisEmeritusProfessorofModernHistoryattheUniversity of Durham. He has contributed to several journals and has written a large number of books including Faith and Faction (1993) and The ProtestantEvangelicalAwakening(1992). NewApproachestoEuropeanHistory Serieseditors william beikEmoryUniversity t. c. w. blanningSidneySussexCollege,Cambridge New Approaches to European History is an important textbook series intendedtoprovideconcisebutauthoritativesurveysofmajorthemes andproblemsinEuropeanhistorysincetheRenaissance.Writtenata levelandlengthaccessibletoadvancedschoolstudentsandundergrad- uates,eachbookintheserieswilladdresstopicsorthemesthatstudents ofEuropeanhistoryencounterdaily:theserieswillembracebothsome ofthemore‘traditional’subjectsofstudy,andthoseculturalandsocial issues to which increasing numbers of school and college courses are devoted.AparticulareVortwillbemadetoconsiderthewiderinterna- tionalimplicationsofthesubjectunderscrutiny. Toaidthestudentreaderscholarlyapparatusandannotationwillbe light, but each work will have full supplementary bibliographies and notesforfurtherreading:whereappropriate,chronologies,maps,dia- gramsandotherillustrativematerialwillalsobeprovided. Foralistoftitlespublishedintheseries,pleaseseeendofbook. Christianity under the Ancien Re´gime, 1648–1789 W.R.Ward The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org ©Cambridge University Press 2004 First published in printed format 1999 ISBN 0-511-03807-0 eBook (Adobe Reader) ISBN 0-521-55361-X hardback ISBN 0-521-55672-4 paperback Contents Listofmaps pageviii Preface ix Glossary xi 1 PeaceandconXict:churchandstateincentraland north-westernEurope. 1 2 ChristianityinsouthernEurope 34 3 CatholicismintheHolyRomanEmpireandtheeastern HabsburgLands 53 4 ThereligionofProtestants 71 5 Revivalmovestothewest 105 6 TheEnlightenmentanditsprecursors 147 7 TheChurchesinnorthernandeasternEurope 202 8 ReligionaftertheSevenYearsWar 225 Suggestionsforfurtherreading 251 Index 258 vii Maps 1 TheWetterau page19 2 Italyintheeighteenthcentury 40 3 SilesiaaftertheThirtyYearsWar 92 4 SalzburgandneighbouringHabsburgterritories 106 5 ThedeclineoftheOttomanEmpirefromtheendofthe seventeenthcentury 203 6 Northern,centralandeasternEuropeintheearlyeighteenth century 206 viii
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