Religious Plurality at Princely Courts

Benjamin Marschke is Professor of History at the Cal Poly Humboldt, in Arcata, California.

List of Figures



Introduction: Religious Plurality at Princely Courts

Benjamin Marschke, Daniel Riches, Sara Smart, and Alexander Schunka



Part I: Bi-Confessional Royal Marriage Strategies



Chapter 1. Confessional Identity, International Protestantism, and Desacralization: Cross-Confessional Marriage Projects in the House of Hohenzollern in the Eighteenth Century.

Benjamin Marschke



Chapter 2. Faith and its Discontents: Mixed-Confessional Dynastic Marriages and Protestant Dialogue in the Holy Roman Empire during the Long Eighteenth Century.

Alexander Schunka



Part II: Conversion and Its Consequences



Chapter 3. How to Represent a Convert Queen. Elisabeth Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel’s Conversion as a Challenge for Dynastic Public Relations.

Ines Peper and Marion Romberg



Chapter 4. The Supraconfessional Blend versus Confessional Purity: the Death of Anna of Prussia in 1625, the Dynastic Funeral Volume, and Confessional Relations in Brandenburg-Prussia.

Sara Smart



Chapter 5. Monsieur is Worth a Mass: Changing Attitudes Towards Conversion in Seventeenth-Century French Royal Marriages.

Jonathan Spangler



Part III: Religious Plurality at Court



Chapter 6. Masquerades and Christian Zeal: The Court of Moritz of Hessen-Kassel During the Second Reformation.

Tryntje Helfferich



Chapter 7. Ecclesiastical Courts, Aristocratic Kinship, and Confessional Ambiguity: Osnabrück, Paderborn, Münster, ca. 1555-1650.

David M. Luebke



Part IV: Religious Plurality Beyond the Court



Chapter 8. Dynastic and Religious Ambitions in Johan III of Sweden’s Marriage to Katarina Jagellonica.

Daniel Riches



Chapter 9. Diplomacy and Religious Plurality in the Prussian and British Courts, 1840-1860.

Samuel Keeley



Part V: Concluding Remarks



Chapter 10. Religious Plurality at Princely Courts in a Global Context: A Counterpoint from Outside Europe.

Jeroen Duindam



Conclusion and Avenues for Further Research

Benjamin Marschke, Daniel Riches, Sara Smart, and Alexander Schunka