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Scholars have associated Calvinism with print and literary
cultures, with republican, liberal, and participatory political
cultures, with cultures of violence and vandalism, enlightened
cultures, cultures of social discipline, secular cultures, and with
the emergence of capitalism. Reflecting on these arguments, the
essays in this volume recognize that Reformed Protestantism did not
develop as a uniform tradition but varied across space and time.
The authors demonstrate that multiple iterations of Calvinism
developed and impacted upon differing European communities that
were experiencing social and cultural transition. They show how
these different forms of Calvinism were shaped by their adherents
and opponents, and by the divergent political and social contexts
in which they were articulated and performed. Recognizing that
Reformed Protestantism developed in a variety of cultural settings,
this volume analyzes the ways in which it related to the
multi-confessional cultural environment that prevailed in Europe
after the Reformation.
The reformation was not a western European event, but historians have neglected the study of Protestantism in central and eastern Europe. This book aims to rectify this situation. It examines one of Europe's largest Protestant communities in Hungary and Transylvania. It highlights the place of the Hungarian Reformed church in the international Calvinist world, and reveals the impact of Calvinism on Hungarian politics and society.
This collection of essays, edited by Graeme Murdock, Penny Roberts,
and Andrew Spicer, developed from a one-day conference 'Religion
and Violence in Early Modern France: The Work of Natalie Zemon
Davis' which was held in June 2008 at the Shakespeare Institute,
Stratford-upon-Avon. Five of the papers published here were
initially delivered on that occasion, but the conference also
sought to learn from the differing perspectives of violence outside
sixteenth-century France. This concern is also reflected in this
collection, which seeks to offer new insights and approaches to the
relationship and significance of religion and violence as well as
paying tribute to the immense contribution made in this field by
the writings of Natalie Zemon Davis.
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