Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation [Paperback]

An expert re-interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in early modern Europe.The sixteen chapters in this book, written by leading experts in this period's history, offer a new and dramatically different interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in the crucial period between 1500, when northern humanism had begun to make an impact, and 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War. They question the traditional view of a general progression towards greater religious toleration, and instead place religious tolerance and intolerance in their specific social and political contexts.The sixteen chapters in this book, written by leading experts in this period's history, offer a new and dramatically different interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in the crucial period between 1500, when northern humanism had begun to make an impact, and 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War. They question the traditional view of a general progression towards greater religious toleration, and instead place religious tolerance and intolerance in their specific social and political contexts.The sixteen chapters in this book, written by leading experts in this period's history, offer a new and dramatically different interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in the crucial period between 1500, when northern humanism had begun to make an impact, and 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War. They question the traditional view of a general progression toward greater religious toleration, and instead place religious tolerance and intolerance in their specific social and political contexts.1. Introduction Ole Peter Grell; 2. The travail of tolerance: containing chaos in Early Modern Europe Heiko A. Oberman; 3. Preconditions of tolerance and intolerance in sixteenth century Germany Bob Scribner; 4. Heresy executions in Reformation Europe, 15201565 William Monter; 5. Un Roi, Une Loi, Deux Fois: parameters forlӎ