Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World - An Alternative History of the Reformation

This book examines the emergence of the religious refugee as a mass phenomenon from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The body of Christ: defined and threatened; 2. Purifying the body; 3. Dividing the body; 4. Mind and body; 5. Re-forming the body; 6. Re-imagining the body.

About the author

Nicholas Terpstra is Professor and Chair of History at the University of Toronto. He has been a Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University, the University of Sydney, the University of Warwick, and the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. His books have shown how Renaissance cities handled orphans, abandoned children, criminals and the poor in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His most recent book, Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy (2014), won prizes from the Renaissance Society of America and the American Historical Association.

Summary

This book examines the emergence of the religious refugee as a mass phenomenon from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It considers how Europeans pictured a range of threats as social contagions and how they dealt with these threats by purging ideas, objects, and people.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Terpstra, Nicholas (University of Toronto) Terpstra, Terpstra Nicholas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107024564
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02456-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, RELIGION / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, History of Religion, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples