Religious Interactions in Europe and the Mediterranean World

Katsumi Fukasawa is Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo and Visiting Professor of European history at Kyoto-Sangyo University, both in Japan.Benjamin J. Kaplan is Professor of Dutch History (Chair) at University College London, UK.Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, and Fellow of the ‘Institut Universitaire de France’.

• IntroductionKatsumi FukasawaPart I. Christendom divided: dilemmas of coexistence, attempts at dialogue1 Crossing confessional frontiers in the sixteenth century: Frenchmen before the Italian Inquisition Alain Tallon2 Between Protestants and Catholics: Proposals for the establishment of universal peace and tolerationMiriam Eliav-Feldon3 Sympathy for the secret society: The Family of Love, Humanists, and Guillaume Postel.Taihei Yamamoto4 God's vengeance and forgiveness for enemies: A new perspective on the Anabaptist contribution to the development of religious toleration and reconciliation in early modern EuropeTomoji Odori5 Do good fences make good neighbours? Living with heretics in early modern SavoyGraeme Murdock6 Religious conflict and community in early modern Ireland: The Presbyterian QuestionRobert Armstrong7 ‘When in Rome…’: Religious practice by Anglicans on the Continent in the 17th and early 18th centuriesSugiko Nishikawa8 Religious printed material: actor and witness of inter-faith rivalries in south-west France in the seventeenth centuryÉric Suire9 Port-Royalists as a catalyst for the inter-confessional dialogues in seventeenth-century FranceMasanori Sakano10 Protestants in the French Navy before and after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: Political and social questionsMartine Acerra11 Can erudite friendship break down inter-confessional barriers and promote ecumenical dialogue? The case of the correspondence of Cardinal Querini, Bishop of Brescia, with the pastors of the French Reformed churches of Prussia in the 18th centuryPierre-Yves Beaurepaire12 ‘In death they are not divided’: The Irish Burial Act of 1824 and establishment of a ‘cosmopolitan’ cemetery in DublinShunsuke KatsutaConclusion to Part OneBenjamin J. KaplanPart II. Religious pluralism from the Mediterranean to Western Asia, between acceptance and rejection13 The Cathars in context. Why were the ‘bons hommes’ well received in the South of France?Pilar Jiménez Sanchez14 A Franciscan mission by Pope Nicholas III to Il-khan AbaqaMamoru Fujisaki15 Wearing the blue turban again: Christian reconversions in Mamluk EgyptAsuka Tsuji16 Religious minorities and foreigners in Ottoman CairoYutaka Horii17 Religious policy in early modern VeniceHiromi Saito18 Roman Catholics and Greek Orthodox in Venice’s overseas colonies(mid-fifteenth to mid-seventeenth century)Benjamin Arbel19 ‘Chronicle of an expulsion foretold’: The Moriscos of SpainMaria Ghazali20 The religious commitment of Shāh ‘Abbās the Great, Safavid king of Persia, upon the evidence of European contemporariesInessa Magilina21 Neither ‘Western’ nor ‘Orthodox’: Establishing Greek Catholic identity in the Ottoman Empire and beyondHidemitsu Kuroki22 Druzes and Christians in Ottoman Mount-Lebanon: A rare case of religious symbiosisRay Jabre Mouawad23 A Christian public space in Egypt: Historical and contemporary reflectionsFebe ArmaniosConclusion to Part TwoPierre-Yves Beaurepaire