Jesse Spohnholz is Director of The Roots of Contemporary Issues World History Program and Professor of History at Washington State University

"This fine book should immediately find its place on any reading list devoted to the religious wars, confessionalization, religious toleration, and the social history of Germany in the later sixteenth century. Spohnholz describes a state of affairs that does not fit into any of the categories so far used by historians: it is a superb work of empirical history."— The Journal of Modern History"This is a cogently argued book that deserves a wide readership."— Journal of Ecclesiastical History"[…] a highly informative study of the ways that human beings learned to cope in the face of deep divisions with their neighbors. […] a methodically researched, comprehensively evidenced, and deeply interesting demonstration of how confessionally distinct early modern Europeans were able to find peaceful coexistence in a world where religion was still foundational to society."— German Studies Review

• Religious toleration and the Reformation of the refugeesReligious refugees and the rise of confessional tensionsCalvinist discipline and the boundaries of religious tolerationThe strained hospitality of the Lutheran communitySurviving dissent : Mennonites and Catholics in WeselThe practice of toleration : religious life in Reformation-era Wesel

Jesse Spohnholz is Director of The Roots of Contemporary Issues World History Program and Professor of History at Washington State University

"This fine book should immediately find its place on any reading list devoted to the religious wars, confessionalization, religious toleration, and the social history of Germany in the later sixteenth century. Spohnholz describes a state of affairs that does not fit into any of the categories so far used by historians: it is a superb work of empirical history."— The Journal of Modern History"This is a cogently argued book that deserves a wide readership."— Journal of Ecclesiastical History"[…] a highly informative study of the ways that human beings learned to cope in the face of deep divisions with their neighbors. […] a methodically researched, comprehensively evidenced, and deeply interesting demonstration of how confessionally distinct early modern Europeans were able to find peaceful coexistence in a world where religion was still foundational to society."— German Studies Review

• Religious toleration and the Reformation of the refugeesReligious refugees and the rise of confessional tensionsCalvinist discipline and the boundaries of religious tolerationThe strained hospitality of the Lutheran communitySurviving dissent : Mennonites and Catholics in WeselThe practice of toleration : religious life in Reformation-era Wesel

Jesse Spohnholz is Director of The Roots of Contemporary Issues World History Program and Professor of History at Washington State University

"This fine book should immediately find its place on any reading list devoted to the religious wars, confessionalization, religious toleration, and the social history of Germany in the later sixteenth century. Spohnholz describes a state of affairs that does not fit into any of the categories so far used by historians: it is a superb work of empirical history."— The Journal of Modern History"This is a cogently argued book that deserves a wide readership."— Journal of Ecclesiastical History"[…] a highly informative study of the ways that human beings learned to cope in the face of deep divisions with their neighbors. […] a methodically researched, comprehensively evidenced, and deeply interesting demonstration of how confessionally distinct early modern Europeans were able to find peaceful coexistence in a world where religion was still foundational to society."— German Studies Review

• Religious toleration and the Reformation of the refugeesReligious refugees and the rise of confessional tensionsCalvinist discipline and the boundaries of religious tolerationThe strained hospitality of the Lutheran communitySurviving dissent : Mennonites and Catholics in WeselThe practice of toleration : religious life in Reformation-era Wesel