Converting Bohemia : force and persuasion in the Catholic Reformation / Howard Louthan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Louthan, Howard, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

History.

Bohemia (Czech Republic)--Church history.

Bohemia (Czech Republic).

Catholic Church--Czech Republic--Bohemia--History.

Czech Republic--Bohemia.

Physical Description:

xiii, 351 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

The aim of this series in early modern and modern European history is to publish outstanding works of research, addressed to important themes across a wide geographical range, from southern and central Europe to Scandinavia and Russia, from the time of the Renaissance to the Second World War. As it develops, the series will comprise focused works of wide contextual range and intellectual ambition.

Contents:

Introduction: A tale of two windows : framing the history of early modern Bohemia

Severed heads and holy bones : authority and culture in post-White Mountain Bohemia

Reshaping identity and reforming the kingdom : confessional change and the nobility

"Monarchs of knowledge" : mastering dissent in post-White Mountain Bohemia

Finding a holy past : antiquarianism and Catholic revival

Reshaping the landscape : art and confessional identity

Formation of the faithful : Catholicism in the countryside

Sermons, songs, and scripture : reforming believers by the Word

Pilgrimage and popular piety

Making Bohemia holy : Christian saints and Jewish martyrs

Conclusion: Between force and persuasion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780521889292

0521889294

OCLC:

237883677

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