Converting Bohemia: Force and Persuasion in the Catholic Reformation

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Overview

The aim of this series in early modern and modern European history is to publish outstanding works of research, addressed to important themes across a wide geographical range, from southern and central Europe to Scandinavia and Russia, from the time of the Renaissance to the Second World War. As it develops, the series will comprise focused works of wide contextual range and intellectual ambition.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780521889292
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 3/31/2009
  • Series: New Studies in European History Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 368
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Howard Louthan is Associate Professor in the History Department, University of Florida. He is the author of The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (1997).

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Table of Contents

List of illustrations viii

Acknowledgments x

Note on orthography xii

List of abbreviations xiii

Introduction: A tale of two windows: framing the history of early modern Bohemia 1

1 Severed heads and holy bones: authority and culture in post-White Mountain Bohemia 16

2 Reshaping identity and reforming the kingdom: confessional change and the Bohemian nobility 47

3 "Monarchs of Knowledge": mastering dissent in post-White Mountain Bohemia 83

4 Finding a holy past: antiquarianism and Catholic revival 115

5 Reshaping the landscape: art and confessional identity 146

6 Formation of the faithful: Catholicism in the countryside 179

7 Sermons, songs and scripture: reforming believers by the word 211

8 Pilgrimage and popular piety 245

9 Making Bohemia holy: Christian saints and Jewish martyrs 277

Conclusion: Between force and persuasion 317

Abbreviations Primary Source Collections: Archives and Libraries 325

Select bibliography 327

Index 339

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