Early Modern Toleration

Benjamin J. Kaplan, Professor of Dutch History, University College London. He has published widely on the history of relations between religious groups in early modern Europe. Among his books is Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe (2007). Jaap Geraerts, Digital Humanities Lab, Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz. His research interests comprise the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, religious toleration, and the digital humanities. Publications include Patrons of the Old Faith: The Catholic Nobility in Utrecht and Guelders, c. 1580–1702 (2018).

1. "To Preserve and Instill the Beloved Peace" – Religious Invective and Confessional Coexistence under the Peace of Augsburg / 2. The Acoustics of Peace: Singing and Religious Coexistence in Seventeenth-Century Mechelen / 3. Tuning Catholicism in the Dutch Republic. Catholic Soundscapes in a Calvinist Society, c. 1600–1750 / 4. At the Crossroads of Identity: Conversos and Moriscos in Inquisitorial Spain (Sixteenth – Seventeenth centuries) / 5. Memory, Toleration, and Conflict after the French Wars of Religion / 6. Constitutional Dynamism and Demographic Diversity in Early Modern Confessional Coexistence: Dutch Reformed Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire, 1554–1596 / 7. Ambivalent Neighbours: Sensory and Spatial Dynamics of Religious Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany / 8. Crossing Borders? Conversions and Mixed Marriages in Ottoman Bilād al-Shām (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries) / 9. Catholic Merchants in British Commerce in the Age of Mercantilism / 10. Conquest, Colonialism and Religious Conflict in the Moluccas in the Early Seventeenth Century / 11. A Middle Path to Toleration? Sharing Sacred Spaces in Bautzen and Wetzlar, 1523–1625 / 12. From Contested Space to Sacred Topography: Jews, Protestants and Catholics in Reformation Cracow / 13. Confessional Boundaries and Transconfessional Spaces in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century British North America