Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Too Long for a Play: Shakespeare and the Wars of Religion 41
5. Caesarean Negotiations: Forgetting Henri IV’s Past after the French Wars of Religion 63
6. The Historical Sublime in Shakespeare’s Richard II 81
7. Flooding Faith: Forgetfulness in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy 99
8. Forgotten Religions, Religions that Cause Forgetting 117
9. Controversy and Reconciliation : Grotius, Vondel and the Debate on Religious Peace in the Dutch Republic 139
10. The Renaissance Musician and Theorist Confronted with Religious Fragmentation: Conflict, Betrayal and Dissimulation 163
11. ‘Of no church’: Immigrants, liefhebbers and Confessional Diversity in Elizabethan London, c. 1568 – 1581 199
12. Trading Goods – Trading Faith? Religious Conflict and Commercial Interests in Early Modern Spain 221
13. “Familiar Strangers”: Dissimulation, Tolerance and Faith in Early Anglo-Ottoman Travel 241
14. Perpetual Oblivion? Remembering Westphalia in a Post-Secular Age 261
15. Index 279