Pragmatic Toleration - The Politics of Religious Heterodoxy in Early Reformation Antwerp, 1515-1555

Using the case of early-sixteenth-century Antwerp, argues that practices of religious toleration in the Christian West first emerged not as the outgrowth of beliefs about human rights, but as a practical consequence of religious coexistence.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Lay of the Land: Government and Law in Brabant
2. Undercover: The Claes vander Eslt Conventicle
3. Pragmatic Intolerance: Antwerp's Anabaptists
4. People of the Book: Heterodox Printers and Publishers in Antwerp
5. Between Stage and Scaffold: Rederijker Trials in Antwerp
6. Trade in Tolerance:The Portuguese New Christians in Antwerp, 1526-50
Conclusion: Rulers and Religious Renegades

Appendix 1: Chronology of Antiheresy Legislation in Brabant
Appendix 2: Answers at Ghent

Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Victoria Christman

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Christman
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2015
• EAN: 9781580465168
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-516-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 497 g
• Series: Changing Perspectives on Early; Changing Perspectives on Early
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Europäische Geschichte, Westeuropa, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Christianity / History, HISTORY / Europe / Western, History - General History