Wayne P. Te Brake (Purchase State University of New York)

Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

This work surveys Europe's infamous religious wars in order to offer a new understanding of the nature of religious peace - how it came into being and what it actually looked like. It will find a ready audience in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on European history of the early modern period.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781107459229
• ISBN-10: 1107459222
• Artikelnr.: 45191303

Autorenporträt

Wayne P. Te Brake is Professor Emeritus of History at Purchase College, State University of New York. He has published broadly comparative work on the themes of revolution, contentious politics, and religious coexistence in early modern Europe, including Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700 (1998) and Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

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.