Companion to Multiconfessionalism in the Early Modern World

Thomas Max Safley is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published extensively on the social and economic history of early modern Europe, in which multiconfessionalism played a substantial role.

• Notes on Contributors ... ixMulticonfessionalism: A Brief Introduction ... 1Thomas Max SafleyPART ONE: CONFESSIONSConfessions ... 23Lee Palmer WandelPART TWO: THE NETHERLANDSConfessional Coexistence in the Early Modern Low Countries ... 47Jesse SpohnholzMulticonfessionalism in a Commercial Metropolis: The Case of 16th-Century Antwerp ... 75Guido Marnef“In Equality and Enjoying the Same Favor”: Biconfessionalism in the Low Countries ... 99Benjamin J. KaplanPART THREE: THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIREA Multiconfessional Empire ... 129David M. Luebkevi contentsProtestant Imperial Knights, Multiconfessionalism, and the Counter-Reformation ... 155Richard J. NinnessMulticonfessionalism in the Holy Roman Empire: The Case of Colmar, 1550–1750 ... 179Peter G. WallacePART FOUR: FRANCEFrance: An Overview ... 209Keith P. LuriaPeace Commissioners at the Beginning of the Wars of Religion: Toward an Interactionist Interpretation of the Pacification Process in France ... 239Jérémie FoaOne Town, Two Faiths: Unity and Exclusion during the French Religious Wars ... 265Penny RobertsPART FIVE: BRITAINMulticonfessionalism in Early Modern Britain ... 289Bernard CappEarly Modern Ireland as Multiconfessional State ... 317Raymond GillespieEuropean Multiconfessionalism and the English Toleration Controversy, 1640–1660 ... 341John CoffeyPART SIXCENTRAL EUROPEMulticonfessionalism in Central Europe ... 369Howard LouthanMulticonfessionalism in Transylvania ... 393Graeme MurdockFive Confessions in One City: Multiconfessionalism in Early Modern Wilno ... 417David FrickWorks Cited ... 445Index ... 477

“[This volume’s] value lies in its geographical range, the diverse approaches taken, and the generally high quality of the contributions […]. The most ambitious essays – and potentially the most useful for comparative purposes – tackle big questions of how coexistence operated at the level of both community and state.”Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 64, No. 3 (July 2013), pp. 638-639.‘’Le volume est vraiment un «companion» valable qui décrit avec Bonheur l’état de la recherché historique et peut constituer ainsi l’arrière-plan d’études ultérieures. Le volume contient en outre une abondante bibliographie polyglotte [..] présentée comme «works cited», celle-ci illustre l’extension du contenu du recueil qui est une excellente introduction à la problématique de la multiconfessionalité en Europe, à l’époque de la naissance de la Réforme protestante.’’Jos E. Vercruysse, Pontificia Gregorian University. In: Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, p. 448.