Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe - Strategies of Exile

This collection of essays looks at the shared experience of exile across different groups in the early modern period. Contributors argue that exile is a useful analytical tool in the study of a wide variety of peoples previously examined in isolation.

List of contents

Introduction, Greta Grace Kroeker; Chapter 1 Trade in Tolerance: The Portuguese New Christians of Antwerp, 1530–50, Victoria Christman; Chapter 2 Swimming Against the Tide: The Entry of Jews in Spain. Religious Mobility, Social Control and Integration at the End of the Ancien Régime, Marina Torres Arce; Chapter 3 Populating a ‘Nest of Pirates, Murtherers, etc.’: Tuscan Immigration Policy and Ragion Di Stato in the free Port of Livorno, Stephanie Nadalo; Chapter 4 Exile, Education and Eschatology in the Works of Jan Amos Comenius and John Milton, David Parry; Chapter 5 5 Missionaries as Exiles: Calvinist Strategies for Restoration in Communities Under the Dutch East India Company, Charles H. Parker; Chapter 6 Niccolò Guidalotto Da Mondavio and his City View of Constantinople (1662): The Experience of an Exile, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby; Chapter 7 Educating for Martyrdom: British Exiles in the English College at Valladolid, Berta Cano-Echevarría, and Ana Sáez-Hidalgo; Chapter 8 Freedom as Exile: Michael Servetus and the Alumbrados, María Tausiet; Chapter 9 Coping with Poverty: Dutch Reformed Exiles in Emden, Germany, Timothy G. Fehler; Chapter 10 Anabaptist Migration to Moravia and the Hutterite Brethren, Emese Balint; Chapter 11 Chaos and Community: 1492 and the Formation of the Sephardic Diaspora, Jonathan Ray; Chapter 12 Displaced Intellectuals and Rebuilt Networks: The Protestant Exiles from the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, Vladimír Urbánek;

About the author

Fehler, Timothy G.; Kroeker, Greta Grace; Parker, Charles H.; Ray, Jonathan

Product details

• Authors: Timothy G Fehler, Timothy G. Kroeker Fehler
• Assisted by: Timothy G Fehler (Editor), Timothy G. Fehler (Editor), Fehler Timothy G. (Editor), Greta Grace Kroeker (Editor), Kroeker Greta Grace (Editor), Charles H Parker (Editor), Charles H. Parker (Editor), Parker Charles H. (Editor), Jonathan Ray (Editor), Ray Jonathan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138663077
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66307-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700