Diversity and Dissent

Howard Louthan is Professor of History at the University of Florida. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Central Europe. Among his books are The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (Cambridge, 1997) and Converting Bohemia: Force and Persuasion in the Catholic Reformation (Cambridge, 2009).

“This volume gives a good, comparative insight into the construction of denominational affiliations, the inter-denominational understanding and the conflicts in political and everyday life in Central Europe.”  ·  Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction:Between Conflict and Concord: The Challenge of Religious Diversity in Central EuropeHoward Louthan  Chapter 1. Constructing and Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The High Nobility and the Reformation of BohemiaPetr MaťaChapter 2. Religious Toleration in Sixteenth Century Poland: Political Realities and Social ConstraintsPaul W. KnollChapter 3. Customs of Confession: Managing Religious Diversity in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century WestphaliaDavid M. LuebkeChapter 4. Cuius region, eius religio: The ambivalent meanings of state building in Protestant Germany, 1555-1655Robert von FriedeburgChapter 5. The Entropy of Coercion in the Holy Roman Empire: Jews, Heretics, WitchesThomas A. Brady, Jr.Chapter 6. Conflict and Concord in Early Modern Poland: Catholics and Orthodox at the Union of BrestMikhail V. DmitrievChapter 7. Confessionalization and the Jews: Impacts and Parallels in the City of StrasbourgDebra KaplanChapter 8. Mary “triumphant over demons and also heretics”: Religious symbols and confessional uniformity in Catholic GermamyBridget HealChapter 9. Heresy and Literacy in the Eighteenth-century Habsburg MonarchyRegina PörtnerChapter 10. Union, Reunion, or Toleration? Reconciliatory Attempts among Eighteenth-century ProtestantsAlexander SchunkaChapter 11. Confessional Uniformity, Toleration, Freedom of Religion: An Issue for Enlightened Absolutism in the Eighteenth CenturyErnst WangermannNotes on ContributorsSelect BibliographyFiguresFigure 1. Master of St. Severin rosary altarFigure 2. Rosary image, CologneFigure 3. Bartolomäus Bruyn the Elder, TryptichFigure 4. Sixteenth-century panels, Virign and ChildFigure 5. Arrival of Gustav Adolph, Augsbury 1632Figure 6. Altarpiece, Parish Church, Sebes, c. 1524-6