Download or read book Religious Toleration in the Conflict of Ideas in Seventeenth Century France written by W. J. Stankiewicz and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics religion in seventeenth century France a study of political ideas from the monarchomach to Bayle and reflected in the toleration controversy written by W. J. Stankiewicz and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Persecuting Society written by John Christian Laursen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a myth—easily shattered—that Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between individuals and groups, and another—too readily accepted—that before the rise of secularism in the modern period, intolerance and persecution held sway throughout Europe. In Beyond the Persecuting Society John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman, and nine other scholars dismantle this second generalization. If intolerance and religious persecution have been at the root of some of the greatest suffering in human history, it is nevertheless the case that toleration was practiced and theorized in medieval and early modern Europe on a scale few have realized: Christians and Jews, the English, French, Germans, Dutch, Swiss, Italians, and Spanish had their proponents of and experiments with tolerance well before John Locke penned his famous Letter Concerning Toleration. Moving from Abelard to Aphra Behn, from the apology for the gentiles of the fourteenth-century Talmudic scholar, Menahem ben Solomon Ha-MeIiri, to the rejection of intolerance in the "New Israel" of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Beyond the Persecuting Society offers a detailed and decisive correction to a vision of the past as any less complex in its embrace and abhorrence of diversity than the present.
Download or read book Between Peaceful Coexistence and Ongoing Conflict Religious Tolerance and the Protestant Minority in Seventeenth Century France written by Sukhwan Kang and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a study of religious tolerance and the Huguenot minority in earlymodern France. From the Wars of Religion (1562-1629) to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantesin 1685, early modern French people experimented with the possibility of religious coexistencebetween Catholics and Protestants. This study focuses on how early modern French Catholicsand Protestants perceived tolerance and coexistence in their real life, which was virtually theissue of whether they accepted the edict of pacification to permit Protestant worship at someareas for ending the civil wars. After the Edict of Nantes brought relatively stable internal peacein 1598, the issue was extended how they interpreted the articles of the Edict and implementedthe articles in detail. In order to examine the practical interreligious social relations, thisdissertation explores the documents prepared for the Estates-Generals, political pamphlets, andmemory practices, which all conveyed popular perceptions of tolerance and coexistence in earlymodern France. For unfolding the experience of religious cohabitation at the ground level, I alsocompare the legal battle over the articles of the Edict in Normandy of the North, where theHuguenot community was a small and isolated minority, with that in Nîmes of the South, whereProtestant bastions were numerous and concentrated.In so doing, this dissertation demonstrates that, for the early modern French people,religious tolerance was not an abstract idea but a very real problem, thereby arguing that thereality of tolerance in seventeenth-century France could never be limited to peaceful coexistenceand ongoing conflict, but it was always a constant struggle between those two extremes.
Download or read book Politics Religion in Seventeenth Century France written by W.J. Stankiewicz and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1960-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Calvinists or Huguenots entered the seventeenth century enjoying the rights grated to them as a religious minority by the Edict of Nantes. Within eighty years they were suffering brutal dragonnades, and by the end of the century Calvinism was almost exterminated: it would be nearly another hundred years before religious tolerance would be restored in France. In examining this critical period, whose bigotry cast a long shadow into the twentieth century, Dr. Stankiewicz throws into relief the vast body of seventeenth-century French political ideas. He is particularly interested in the relations between political thought and historic events. Analytical rather than descriptive, his book examines the problem of toleration on many levels; it contrasts ideology with policy, domestic affairs with international issues, religion with politics, and theory with practice. The author cuts through a complex mass of material to appraise the relation between toleration -- or tolerance or tolerationism, whichever the case may be -- party politics, and revolutionary action. Most of the text is based on seventeenth-century documents in French, Latin, and English. In discussing these writings, Dr. Stankiewicz sheds new light on the concept of sovereignty, on the theories of the social contract and the divine right of kinds, on the conflict between these two, and on the questions of obedience and the right to revolt. Contemporary implications can be seen in his discussion of Pierre Bayle -- the "Philosopher of Rotterdam." Stankiewicz writes that Bayle's arguments for tolerance can be used as a commentary on the modern political predicament. They touch on the ever-present problem of the peril of subversives and on the validity of the reasons given by vigilantes intent on suppressing dangerous elements. The passing of the era of intense religious persecution does not mean that humanity has progressed to a point of tolerance for dissident minorities, but that hostilities have largely been shifted from the religious to the political sphere.
Download or read book No l Aubert de Vers written by Paul J. Morman and published by Mellen Poetry Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of all the publications relating to French intellectual, Noel Aubert de Verse, assessing of his contribution as a precursor of Enlightenment ideas. It examines his concepts of religious toleration as an extension of his Christian theology and 17th-century philosophical perspective.
Download or read book Charles de Saint Ervremond written by James Stewart Alverson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics and Religion in Seventeenth Century France written by W.J. Stankiewicz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1960.
Download or read book Paradoxes of Religious Toleration in Early Modern Political Thought written by John Christian Laursen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s developed world, much of what people believe about religious toleration has evolved from crucial innovations in toleration theory developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thinkers from that period have been rightly celebrated for creating influential, liberating concepts and ideas that have enabled many of us to live in peace. However, their work was certainly not perfect. In this enlightening volume, John Christian Laursen and María José Villaverde have gathered contributors to focus on the paradoxes, blindspots, unexpected flaws, or ambiguities in early modern toleration theories and practices. Each chapter explores the complexities, complications, and inconsistencies that came up in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as people grappled with the idea of toleration. In understanding the weaknesses, contradictions, and ambivalences in other theories, they hope to provoke thought about the defects in ways of thinking about toleration in order to help in overcoming similar problems in contemporary toleration theories.
Download or read book Religious Concord and Political Tolerance in Sixteenth and Seventeenth century France written by Mario Turchetti and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Huguenots of Paris and the Coming of Religious Freedom 1685 1789 written by David Garrioch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the reasons why the Catholic population of Paris increasingly tolerated the minority Protestant Huguenot population between 1685 and 1789.
Download or read book Pourquoi Me Pers cutes tu written by Ashley Marie Voeks and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, France sustained prolonged periods of religious conflict between Catholics and Reformers that profoundly shaped its culture. My dissertation addresses the relationship between French culture and conflict by examining texts that engage with the subjects of martyrdom and religious violence, from the early years of Reformed persecution to the aftermath of France’s Wars of Religion. Pushing the conventional boundaries of Catholic-Reformed conflict beyond a single event or historical episode, my work shows the continuity of textual representations of the sufferings endured by the religious minority in France. I likewise broaden my focus to include authors and genres that are typically not studied together, thereby offering new perspectives on the complex issue of how French writers and readers navigated sectarian divide. Martyrdom and religious violence form the basis of this continuity and my argument that prominent French writers Jean Crespin, Jean de Léry, Agrippa d’Aubigné, and Pierre Corneille sought to lead their French-speaking audiences toward positive and sympathetic perceptions of the religious other. I begin tracing the narrative thread of martyrdom and religious violence in Chapter One, which considers French martyrologist Jean Crespin’s Histoire des martyrs (1554), the first book of Reformed martyrs published in the French vernacular. I argue that the Histoire des martyrs was the product of Crespin’s desire to gain authority within the Reform movement by producing a work that would be of cultural and symbolic value for sixteenth-century Reformed readers. I first examine Crespin’s career path in printing and his accounts of Reformed martyrdom through the Bourdieusian theoretical lens of cultural production. I explain his successful debut in the competitive printing industry in terms of his initiation into the ‘religious field’, meaning the network of leading Reformers that controlled their church and movement. I then look to the martyrology’s distinct components to show how they would have constituted ‘religious capital’, meaning valuable assets for individuals functioning within the religious field, for Crespin and his Reformed readers. Crespin’s martyrology was an important part of everyday life for Reformers, and the martyrs whose stories filled the pages of the Histoire des martyrs inspired and instructed readers in matters of faith. In Chapter Two, I turn to Reformed explorer and writer Jean de Léry’s firsthand accounts of the hardships that Reformers experienced during the Siege of Sancerre and an expedition in the New World, both momentous events and crushing defeats for the French Reform movement. Léry recounts these experiences in his well-known travelogue and memoire, the Histoire d’un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil (1580) and Histoire mémorable de la ville de Sancerre (1574). In so doing, Léry pays particular attention to the food-related aspects of Reformers’ struggles, from eating uncustomary meals and suffering famine to witnessing the cannibalistic practices of the Tupinambá natives of Brazil. I thus adopt a food studies approach to argue that Léry’s works may be better understood as articulations of Reformed identity, with alimentary choices and eating behaviors serving to underscore the adaptability and resilience of Reformers in times of heightened religious violence and strife. As my readings suggest, Léry intended to shift his sixteenth-century reader’s perception of these events from resounding defeats to courageous and martyr-like displays of self-sacrifice and steadfast belief. I offer a reassessment of the traditional book of Reformed martyrs established by Crespin in Chapter Three, which examines vehement poet and soldier Agrippa d’Aubigné’s accounts of Reformed martyrdom in his epic poem Les Tragiques (1616). Aubigné’s book of martyrs, “Les Feux,” exemplifies what I call an ‘epic martyrology’, meaning a subgenre and style that blends the characteristic elements of the epic and the martyrology. My reading argues that Aubigné creates an ‘epic martyrology’ to revive the emotional impact that accounts of Reformed martyrdom once had on sixteenthcentury readers. To this end, I engage in close readings of Aubigné’s martyrological accounts, highlighting the ways in which their distinctly poetic features rendered them more energetic and would have persuaded seventeenth-century readers to see Reformed martyrs as valiant heroes of the French Reform. Lastly, Chapter Four examines a Catholic appropriation of the theme of martyrdom in leading French playwright Pierre Corneille’s renowned martyr drama Polyeucte martyr (1643). I first consider scenes and character dialogue that emphasize the dangers of martyrdom and religious difference, making the case that Polyeucte was meant to evoke the Catholic-Reformed violence of France’s recent past. My reading suggests that Corneille sought to draw his seventeenth-century audience’s attention to the threat that ongoing sectarian tensions posed to the social and political stability of the state. I then consider theories of religious toleration to demonstrate how Polyeucte embodies the ‘respect conception’ of tolerance, which seeks to foster attitudes of mutual respect between the religious majority and minority. Corneille’s apparent interest in renewing the toleration policies that had been in place since the turn of the century ultimately served to bolster the Catholic crown’s authority and promote civil order
Download or read book Toleration in Enlightenment Europe written by Ole Peter Grell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1999 book is a systematic pan-European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to toleration in eighteenth-century Europe.
Download or read book How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West written by Perez Zagorin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present universal belief in religious toleration is the momentous story fully told for the first time in this timely and important book by a leading historian of early modern Europe. Perez Zagorin takes readers to a time when both the Catholic Church and the main new Protestant denominations embraced a policy of endorsing religious persecution, coercing unity, and, with the state's help, mercilessly crushing dissent and heresy. This position had its roots in certain intellectual and religious traditions, which Zagorin traces before showing how out of the same traditions came the beginnings of pluralism in the West. Here we see how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers--writing from religious, theological, and philosophical perspectives--contributed far more than did political expediency or the growth of religious skepticism to advance the cause of toleration. Reading these thinkers--from Erasmus and Sir Thomas More to John Milton and John Locke, among others--Zagorin brings to light a common, if unexpected, thread: concern for the spiritual welfare of religion itself weighed more in the defense of toleration than did any secular or pragmatic arguments. His book--which ranges from England through the Netherlands, the post-1685 Huguenot Diaspora, and the American Colonies--also exposes a close connection between toleration and religious freedom. A far-reaching and incisive discussion of the major writers, thinkers, and controversies responsible for the emergence of religious tolerance in Western society--from the Enlightenment through the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights--this original and richly nuanced work constitutes an essential chapter in the intellectual history of the modern world.
Download or read book Toleration in Conflict written by Rainer Forst and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the most comprehensive historical and systematic study of the theory and practice of toleration ever written.
Download or read book Witch Craze written by Lyndal Roper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches--of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops--and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.
Download or read book The Enlightenment and Religion written by S. J. Barnett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in 18th-century Europe. Focusing on the Enlightenment in Italy, France and England, the text illustrates how the canonical view of 18th-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption.
