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Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
Wayne P. Te Brake
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Paperback. This work reassesses Europe's infamous religious wars through the history of religious peace before, during and after the wars. Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 58 b/w illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HRAM9; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 658.
Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe presents a novel account of the origins of religious pluralism in Europe. Combining comparative historical analysis with contentious political analysis, it surveys six clusters of increasingly destructive religious wars between 1529 and 1651, analyzes the diverse settlements that brought these wars to an end, and describes the complex religious peace that emerged from two centuries of experimentation in accommodating religious differences. Rejecting the older authoritarian interpretations of the age of religious wars, the author uses traditional documentary sources as well as photographic evidence to show how a broad range Europeans - ... Read more
Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe presents a novel account of the origins of religious pluralism in Europe. Combining comparative historical analysis with contentious political analysis, it surveys six clusters of increasingly destructive religious wars between 1529 and 1651, analyzes the diverse settlements that brought these wars to an end, and describes the complex religious peace that emerged from two centuries of experimentation in accommodating religious differences. Rejecting the older authoritarian interpretations of the age of religious wars, the author uses traditional documentary sources as well as photographic evidence to show how a broad range Europeans - ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Condition
New
Weight
657g
Number of Pages
410
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107459229
SKU
V9781107459229
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About Wayne P. Te Brake
Wayne Te Brake is Professor of History Emeritus at State University of New York, Purchase, and an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University, New York. He is the author of Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700 and Regents and Rebels: The Revolutionary World of an Eighteenth Century Dutch City, ... Read more
Reviews for Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
'Wayne P. Te Brake's comparative approach to religious war and peace across northwestern Europe after the Protestant Reformation offers a newly coherent language for understanding how Europeans learned - in complex and messy ways - to live side-by-side with those they viewed as 'heretics.' In a modern world facing new threats of religious war, Te Brake's clear-eyed yet optimistic interpretation ... Read more