Early modern ethnic and religious communities in exile / edited by Yosef Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaplan, Yosef, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Religious refugees.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 383 pages : map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

In the Early Modern period, the religious refugee became a constant presence in the European landscape, a presence which was felt, in the wake of processes of globalization, on other continents as well. During the religious wars, which raged in Europe at the time of the Reformation, and as a result of the persecution of religious minorities, hundreds of thousands of men and women were forced to go into exile and to restore their lives in new settings. In this collection of articles, an international group of historians focus on several of the significant groups of minorities who were driven into exile from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The contributions here discuss a broad range of topics, including the ways in which these communities of belief retained their identity in foreign climes, the religious meaning they accorded to the experience of exile, and the connection between ethnic attachment and religious belief, among others. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Transplanted Communities

Portable Homeland: The German-Jewish Diaspora in Italy and Its Impact on Ashkenazic Book Culture, 1400-1600 / Lucia Raspe Raspe, Lucia 26

The Greek Confraternity of Sant' Anna Dei Greci in Ancona: Demographic Structure and Social Responsibilities (1524-1580) / Niccolò Fattori Fattori, Niccolò 44

Transnational Dissidence: Samuel Crell's Socinian Exile / Martin Mulsow Mulsow, Martin 94

Vanishing Fatherlands and Moving Identities: Walloons and Huguenots in the Dutch Republic / Willem Frijhoff Frijhoff, Willem 117

II Iberian Exiles

Cross and Cross Again: First-Hand Accounts of 1492 Exiles' Return to Castile / Sara T. Nalle Nalle, Sara T. 144

Moriscos in North Africa after the Expulsion from Spain in 1609 and Their Discourse about Exile and Diaspora / Gerard Wiegers Wiegers, Gerard 175

Between Religion and Ethnicity: Shaping the Western Sephardic Diaspora / Yosef Kaplan Kaplan, Yosef 189

III Preservation of Identity

Waldensian Identity in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Gabriel Audisio Audisio, Gabriel 208

Composite Religions and Ideas in Exile: Encounters between Early Saxon Reformers and the First Anabaptists / Emese Bálint Bálint, Emese, Chris Martinuzzi Martinuzzi, Chris 218

Negotiating Identity among the Nação in Early Modern Rome / James W. Nelson Novoa Novoa, James W. Nelson 242

Quakers between Martyrdom and Missionary Activity / Stefano Villani Villani, Stefano 277

Exile and Return in Anglo-American Puritanism / John Coffey Coffey, John 289

IV Boundaries Maintained

Creating Boundaries in Emden, Germany: Confession, Language, Poor Relief, and Spaces of the Dutch Reformed Refugees / Timothy G. Fehler Fehler, Timothy G. 314

Memories of a Bygone Diaspora: Huguenot Reconstructed Identity in Gilded Age America / Bertrand van Ruymbeke Ruymbeke, Bertrand van 331

The Domestic and International Roles of the Early Modern Irish Catholic Diaspora / Thomas O'Connor O'Connor, Thomas 341.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1443895806

9781443895804

OCLC:

992504014

Publisher Number:

99973693627