Early modern European civilization and its political and cultural dynamism / Heinz Schilling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schilling, Heinz, 1942-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures

The Menaham [sic] Stern Jerusalem lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation.

Counter-Reformation.

Religious refugees--Europe--History--16th century.

Religious refugees.

Religious refugees--Europe--History--17th century.

Social change--Europe--History--16th century.

Social change.

Social change--Europe--History--17th century.

History.

Europe--History--1492-1648.

Europe.

Europe--Historiography.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

ix, 124 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England ; [Waltham, MA] : Brandeis University Press ; [Jerusalem] : Historical Society of Israel, [2008]

Contents:

I Introduction: The History of Europe between National and Global Challenge 1

II The Confessionalization of European Churches and Societies-an Engine for Modernizing and for Social and Cultural Change 11

The Religious Profile of Latin Europe 13

Confessionalization and the Acceleration of Social Change around 1600 17

Confessionalization and Secularization 28

III Migration and Minorities 33

The Early Modern Confessional Migration - a Typological Approach 35

The Early Migration from the Habsburg Territories of the Netherlands and Iberia: Chronology, Motives, Numbers, Places, and Conditions of Settlement 41

The Reaction of the Calvinist and Sephardic Migrants to Religious and Social Segregation 49

A Dialectic of Traditionalism and Progress - Considerations on Long-term Economic and Cultural Consequences 52

IV The European Crisis of the Early Seventeenth Century and the Birth of an International State System 65

Religion and Early Modern State Power - Preliminary Reflections 67

The Crisis of the Early Seventeenth Century 70

From Confrontation to Compromise and Peace - Overcoming Confessional Fundamentalism 78

The New Stability of a Secular Order of Autonomous States 84.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-114) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1584657006

9781584657002

OCLC:

182963626