Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Luc Racaut
Full text is not currently available for this publication.
This is a co-edited volume of essays. The author co-wrote the introduction with Alec Ryrie (6,000 words). The volume is 95,000 words long and contains 10 chapters. Abstract: Between the religious massacres, conflicts and martyrdoms that characterised much of Reformation Europe, there seems little room for a consideration of the concept of moderation. Yet it was precisely because of this extremism that many Europeans, both individuals and regimes, were forced into positions of moderation as they found themselves caught in the confessional cross-fire. This is not to suggest that such people refused to take sides, but rather that they were unwilling or unable to conform fully to emerging confessional orthodoxies. By conducting an investigation into the idea of 'moderation', this volume raises intriguing concepts and offers a fuller understanding of the pressures that shaped the confessional landscape of Reformation Europe. A number of essays present case studies examining 'moderates' who existed uneasily in the space between coercion and persuasion in England, France and the Holy Roman Empire. Others look more broadly at local and national attempts at conciliation, and at the way the rhetoric of moderation was manipulated during confessional conflict. These are all drawn together with a substantial introduction and analytical conclusion, which not only tie the volume together, but which also pose wider conceptual and methodological questions about the meaning of moderation.
Author(s): Racaut L, Ryrie A
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Series Title: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Year: 2005
Number of Pages: 219
Publisher: Ashgate
Place Published: Aldershot
URL: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=7100&edition_id=7900
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 0754650219
