Bibliograph

Religious refugees in the early modern world, an alternative history of the reformation, Nicholas Terpstra

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Religious refugees in the early modern world, an alternative history of the reformation, Nicholas Terpstra

Language

eng

Main title

Religious refugees in the early modern world

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

918597911

Responsibility statement

Nicholas Terpstra

Series statement

Cambridge books online

Sub title

an alternative history of the reformation

Summary

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. It aims to explain religious ideas and movements of the Reformation in nontechnical and comparative language--, Provided by Publisher

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