In the Early Modern period, the religious refugee became a constant presence in the European landscape, a presence which was felt, in the wake of processes of globalization, on other continents as well. During the religious wars, which raged in Europe at the time of the Reformation, and as a result of the persecution of religious minorities, hundreds of thousands of men and women were forced to go into exile and to restore their lives in new settings. In this collection of articles, an international group of historians focus on several of the significant groups of minorities who were driven into exile from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The contributions here discuss a broad range of topics, including the ways in which these communities of belief retained their identity in foreign climes, the religious meaning they accorded to the experience of exile, and the connection between ethnic attachment and religious belief, among others.
Author(s): Yosef Kaplan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 397
City: Newcastle upon Tyne
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Mobility, Community, and Religious Identity in the Early Modern Period
I. Transplanted Communities
Portable Homeland
The Greek Confraternity of Sant’ Anna Dei Greci in Ancona
Transnational Dissidence
Vanishing Fatherlands and Moving Identities
II. Iberian Exiles
Cross and Cross Again
Moriscos in North Africa after the Expulsion from Spain in 1609 and Their Discourse about Exile and Diaspora
Between Religion and Ethnicity
III. Preservation of Identity
Waldensian Identity in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Composite Religions and Ideas in Exile
Negotiating Identity among the Nação in Early Modern Rome
Quakers between Martyrdom and Missionary Activity
Exile and Return in Anglo-American Puritanism
IV. Boundaries Maintained
Creating Boundaries in Emden, Germany
Memories of a Bygone Diaspora
The Domestic and International Roles of the Early Modern Irish Catholic Diaspora
Contributors
Index of Names and Places
