A Companion to Multiconfessionalism in the Early Modern World

The 17 chapters examine how the experience of daily, regular contact with individuals and groups, who believed and worshipped differently, influenced the solidarity, discipline and coherence of a confession. The volume offers sections devoted to the Holy Roman Empire, Eastern Europe, France, the Low Countries and Britain, early modern states in which multiconfessionalism existed in one form or another, even if only in a limited scope or for a limited time. Each section includes an "overview" as well as two case-studies.

About the author

Thomas Max Safley is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published extensively on the social and economic history of early modern Europe, in which multiconfessionalism played a substantial role.

Product details

• Assisted by: Thomas Max Safley (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.06.2011
• EAN: 9789004206977
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20697-7
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 244 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 953 g
• Series: Brill's Companions to the Chri
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations