Forgetting Faith?: Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe

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Forgetting Faith?

Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe

Edited by: Isabel Karremann
Isabel Karremann

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, Cornel Zwierlein
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and Inga Mai Groote
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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2012

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Volume 29 | Pluralisierung & Autorität

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For the last decade, early modern studies have significantly been reshaped by raising new and different questions on the uses of religion. This ‛religious turn’ has generated new discussion of the social processes at work in early modern Europe and their cultural effects ‑ from the struggle over religious rites and doctrines to the persecution of secret adherents to forbidden practices. The issue of religious pluralisation has been mostly debated in terms of dissent and escalation. But confessional controversy did not always erupt into hostilities over how to symbolize and perform the sacred nor lead to a paralysis of social agency. The order of the day may often have been to suspend confessional allegiances rather than enforce religious conflict, suggesting a pragmatic rather than polemic handling of religious plurality. This raises the urgent question of how 'normal' transconfessional and even transreligious interaction was produced in a context of highly sharpened and always present reflexivity on religious differences. Our volume takes up this question and explores it from an interdisciplinary and interconfessional perspective. The title “Forgetting Faith?” raises the question whether it was necessary or indeed possible to sidestep religious issues in specific contexts and for specific purposes. This does not mean, however, to describe early modern culture as a process of secularization. Rather, the collection invites discussion of the specific ways available to deal with confessional conflict in an oblivional mode, precisely because faith still mattered more than many other social paradigms emerging at that time, such as nationhood, ethnic origin or class defined through property.

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Isabel Karremann, University of Munich; Cornel Zwierlein, Ruhr-University of Bochum; Inga Mai Groote, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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Introduction Isabel Karremann, Cornel Zwierlein and Inga Mai Groote Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Too Long for a Play: Shakespeare and the Wars of Religion Richard Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Caesarean Negotiations: Forgetting Henri IV’s Past after the French Wars of Religion Andrea Frisch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
The Historical Sublime in Shakespeare’s Richard II Jonathan Baldo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Flooding Faith: Forgetfulness in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy Ingrid Hotz-Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Forgotten Religions, Religions that Cause Forgetting Cornel Zwierlein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Controversy and Reconciliation : Grotius, Vondel and the Debate on Religious Peace in the Dutch Republic Freya Sierhuis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
The Renaissance Musician and Theorist Confronted with Religious Fragmentation: Conflict, Betrayal and Dissimulation Inga Mai Groote and Philippe Vendrix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
‘Of no church’: Immigrants, liefhebbers and Confessional Diversity in Elizabethan London, c. 1568 – 1581 Andrew Spicer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Trading Goods – Trading Faith? Religious Conflict and Commercial Interests in Early Modern Spain Thomas Weller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
“Familiar Strangers”: Dissimulation, Tolerance and Faith in Early Anglo-Ottoman Travel Stephan Schmuck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Perpetual Oblivion? Remembering Westphalia in a Post-Secular Age Jane O. Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279