Religious refugees in the early modern world : an alternative history of the Reformation

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Religious refugees in the early modern world : an alternative history of the Reformation

Title remainder

an alternative history of the Reformation

Statement of responsibility

Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto

Creator

• Terpstra, Nicholas

Subject

• Europa
• Europe
• Europe - History - 1492-1648
• Europe -- History -- 1492-1648
• Flüchtling
• History
• Reformation
• 1492-1648
• Reformation
• Religious refugees
• Religious refugees - History
• Religious refugees -- History
• Religiöse Verfolgung
• Reformation

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Exiles and Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation. The religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century. Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Jews, Muslims, and Christians were forced from their homes and into temporary or permanent exile. Their migrations across Europe and around the globe shaped the early modern world and profoundly affected literature, art, and culture. Economic and political factors drove many expulsions, but religion was the factor most commonly used to justify them. This was also the period of religious revival known as the Reformation. This book explores how reformers' ambitions to purify individuals and society fueled movements to purge ideas, objects, and people considered religiously alien or spiritually contagious. * Aims to explain religious ideas and movements of the Reformation in non-technical and comparative language. * Moves Jews and Muslims to the centre of the traditional Reformation narrative, and considers how the exile experience shaped early modern culture, art, politics, and cities. * Traces the historical patterns that still account for the growing numbers of modern religious refugees."--

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

270.6086/91

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

BR305.3

LC item number

.T47 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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