Miskimin's work considers the religious feuding, hostility, and
occasional cooperation of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in
17th-century Metz. In a series of pointed chapters, she shows how
the French Crown benefited from religious disagreement in the town
by using that discord to push through its centralizing political
agenda. Despite the disapproval of local leaders and the lack of
any ideological commitment to coexistence, Catholics, Protestants,
and Jews increasingly developed daily contacts in the city as the
century progressed. Though these contacts were often hostile, they
nonetheless continued and led to more complex interactions which
undercut traditional religious verities.
Using numerous examples from local court records, Miskimin
explores the multilayered contacts between adherents of these three
faiths in one of the only French towns to include this tripartite
religious mix during this period. As a result, Metz became a
convenient early laboratory for the fundamental intellectual shifts
at work in Europe. Building on earlier studies of centralization,
this book integrates social and religious history with major
political shifts to illustrate the interdependence of members of
these three groups, as well as the centrality of their clashes to
an understanding of the climate of these turbulent times at the
dawn of modernity.
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