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Religious refugees in the early modern world : an alternative history of the Reformation

Title
Religious refugees in the early modern world : an alternative history of the Reformation / Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto.
Author
Terpstra, Nicholas.
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Description
vii, 348 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Summary
"Exiles and Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation. The religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century. Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Jews, Muslims, and Christians were forced from their homes and into temporary or permanent exile. Their migrations across Europe and around the globe shaped the early modern world and profoundly affected literature, art, and culture. Economic and political factors drove many expulsions, but religion was the factor most commonly used to justify them. This was also the period of religious revival known as the Reformation. This book explores how reformers' ambitions to purify individuals and society fueled movements to purge ideas, objects, and people considered religiously alien or spiritually contagious. * Aims to explain religious ideas and movements of the Reformation in non-technical and comparative language. * Moves Jews and Muslims to the centre of the traditional Reformation narrative, and considers how the exile experience shaped early modern culture, art, politics, and cities. * Traces the historical patterns that still account for the growing numbers of modern religious refugees."--
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The body of Christ: defined and threatened -- Purifying the body -- Dividing the body: people and places -- Mind and body -- Re-forming the body: the world the refugees made -- Re-imagining the body.
Call Number
JFE 15-6779
ISBN
  • 9781107024564
  • 1107024560
  • 9781107652415
  • 1107652413
LCCN
2015005133
OCLC
904400087
Author
Terpstra, Nicholas.
Title
Religious refugees in the early modern world : an alternative history of the Reformation / Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto.
Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1492 - 1648
Research Call Number
JFE 15-6779
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