Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance

Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer is the Susan C. Karant-Nunn Chair of Reformation and Early Modern European History at the University of Arizona. She has published numerous works, including From Priest’s Whore to Pastor’s Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation (2012).Victoria Christman is Associate Professor of History at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Her publications include Pragmatic Toleration: The Politics of Religious Heterodoxy in Early Reformation Antwerp, 1515-1555 (2015), and articles on publishing, trade, and religious prosecutions in the Low Countries.

• List of Figures and MapsNotes on ContributorsPrologueBenjamin J. KaplanPart 1 Defining the Boundaries of Tolerance and Intolerance1 Ideology, Pragmatism, and Coexistence Religious Tolerance in the Early Modern WestVictoria Christman2 Resisting Biconfessionalism and Coexistence in the Common Territories of the Western Swiss ConfederationJames Blakeley3 The Persecution of Witches and the Discourse on Toleration in Early Modern GermanyWilliam Bradford Smith4 Coexistence and Confessionalization Emden’s Topography of Religious PluralismTimothy G. Fehler5 Concubinaries as Citizens Mediating Confessional Plurality in Westphalian Towns, 1550–1650David M. LuebkePart 2 Mapping Memory and Arbitrating Good Neighbors6 Imagined Conversations Strategies for Survival in the Dialogues RustiquesShira C. Weidenbaum7 Anabaptists and Seventeenth-Century Arguments for Religious Toleration in Switzerland and the NetherlandsGeoffrey Dipple8 Celebrating Peace in Biconfessional Augsburg Lutheran Churches and Remembrance CultureEmily Fisher Gray 9 Discord via Toleration Clerical Conflict in the Post-Westphalian Imperial TerritoriesDavid Mayes 10 Parish Clergy, Patronage Rights, and Regional Politics in the Convent Churches of Welver, 1532–1697Marjorie Elizabeth PlummerEpilogueAmy Nelson BurnettIndex