Nationalism, Religious Violence, and Hate Speech in Nineteenth-Century Western Europe: Memories of Intolerance [Paperback]

Introduction.? 1. Servetus Memory as the Symbol of Christian Intolerance.? 2. Remembering and Narrating Catholic Intolerance in Anti-Catholic British Discourse during the Long Nineteenth Century.? 3. A Battle for Freedom. The Statue of Giordano Bruno in Rome.? 4. Manipulating Martyrdom: Repurposing the Victims of Blasphemy Prosecution for Libertarian Purposes in Nineteenth Century England.? 5. Between Perpetrator and Victim. Pedro Arbu?s Canonization and the Memory of Inquisition in 1867 Europe.? 6. The Legend of Intolerant Spain in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Reactionary Discourse.? 7. The Crusade Between Memorial Activation and Re-enactment: Sacrifice, War and the Brutalization of the Enemy in the Nineteenth-Century.? 8. Memories and Narratives of the Roman Inquisition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: Silences, Apologies, Denunciations.? 9. The Reformation Re-enacted. The Role of the Sixteenth-Century Memory in the Swiss Kulturkampf.? 10. Memory in Anti-Judaism and Modern Antisemitism: German Catholic Mentalities Between 1870 and 1945.? 11. Conclusion: Sites of Memory of Intolerance.??

This timely and engaging volume sheds new light on how, in nineteenth-century Europe, memories of intolerance towards the religious other got?instrumentalised to carry out conflicts over faith-related issues in the contemporary world. Focused on cases of past religious violence, most of them from the early modern period, it will be of great interest to scholars of religion and memory in modern history.?

-Eveline G. Bouwers, Leibniz Institute of European History, Germany.

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This extraordinary collection of essays on the memory of religious intolerance in the Europe of the nineteenth-century nationalisms deepens our knowledge about the invention of tradition. Placing the case-studies in the general processes of that age - the multiplication ols&