Jesse Spohnholz

The Convent of Wesel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book solves a centuries-old mystery from the Reformation that forces us to rethink how humans engage with the past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781107193116
• ISBN-10: 1107193117
• Artikelnr.: 47827488

Autorenporträt

Jesse Spohnholz is Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Roots of Contemporary Issues Program at Washington State University. He also holds a research post at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His books include The Tactics of Toleration: A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars (2011) and (co-edited), Archaeologies of Confession: Writing Histories of Religion in Germany, 1517-2017 (forthcoming) and Exile and Religious Identity, 1500-1800 (2014). He has been awarded the Gerald Strauss Book Prize, the Fritz Stern Prize in German History and the Harold J. Grimm Prize in Reformation Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the mystery of the Convent of Wesel
Part I. Solving the Mystery: 1. November 3, 1568: a moment of hope
2. The author
3. The signers
4. The impact
Part II. Creating the Mystery: 5. The historical emplotment of the national Synod of Wesel, 1618-1768
6. The Synod of Wesel in the age of romantic nationalism, 1815-1868
7. The mystery of the Convent of Wesel, 1868-2000
Conclusion: inheritances.