Protestant Majorities and Minorities in Early Modern Europe
Confessional Boundaries and Contested Identities
Burton, Simon J.G. / van den Broeke, Leon / Balázs, Mihály / Partyka, Johanna / Matthews, Christophe
Erschienen am
12.08.2019
Beschreibung
Illuminating the situation of different early modern Protestant majorities and minorities
Autorenportrait
Simon J.G. Burton is John Laing Senior Lecturer in Reformation History at the School of Divinitz in Edinburgh.
Rezension
Covering an impressive geographical and confessional range, and embracing a wide variety of approaches and methodologies, this volume seeks to illuminate the situation of different early modern Protestant majorities and minorities, who played a complex and dynamic role in shaping the Reformations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the important ways in which they contributed to societal cohesion and division. In doing so it offers a multi-faceted account of Protestant confession-building as it took place on the ground, often in hostile contexts and against considerable odds.
The contributors examine the complex and dynamic role that Protestant majorities and minorities played in the upheavals of early modernity, providing a picture of Protestant confession-building as it took place on the ground.
