Between State and Church (eBook, ePUB)

Confessional Relations from Reformation to Enlightenment: Poland - Lithuania - Germany - Netherlands
Mitwirkender: Alex Shannon, Shannon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The author analyses the inter-confessional relations in selected territories in a longue duree perspective, between Reformation and Enlightenment, going beyond a simple juxtaposition of tolerant and intolerant states to conduct an analysis of political, social and ideological conditions determining the level of religious tolerance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783653999020
• Artikelnr.: 52994295

Autorenporträt

Wojciech Kriegseisen is a historian specializing in the history of early modern Poland against the backdrop of Europe, with a particular focus on interdenominational relations. He is now Head of the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he also heads the Department of Early Modern Studies and is the editor of the journal «Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce».

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Theoretical concepts of the Church-State relations - The reality of interdenominational relations in early modern Europe - The period between the beginning of Reformation and the onset of Enlightenment - Non-absolutist composite states - Poland-Lithuania - Germany-Netherlands.

Rezensionen

«Kriegseisen provides the English-speaking world with a well-documented political history of the Protestant Reformation in Poland-Lithuania. His monograph is a resource for complexity and nuances of various Protestant streams in their church-state relations.»
(Vilius Rudra Dundzila, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 1/2018)

«Students of early modern central European religious history will no doubt find this work of value [...].»
(Christine Kooi, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 68/4 2017)