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In diesem Beitrag werden Regina Toepfers Kriterien mediävistischer Kanonbildung auf einen Text der Frühen Neuzeit angewendet. Gemessen an seinen zahlreichen Ausgaben zählt der "Froschmeuseler" von Georg Rollenhagen zu den "Bestsellern'"... more
Freedom of religion generally resonates in the collective mind as a prized legacy of the European Enlightenment alongside most individual liberties and modern values. This assumption, however, is flawed as it tends to downplay centuries... more
The violent religious conflicts that shook Early Modern Europe gave rise to several models for peaceful coexistence with religious pluralism. Ideas of toleration and reunification were more closely interrelated than one may think. A... more
Pedro Ximénez (Petrus Ximenius, 1524-1595) es un personaje muy poco conocido actualmente, a pesar del gran prestigio del que gozó en vida. La reciente identificación del anónimo Dialogus de pace como obra suya permite estudiar su avanzada... more
This essay examines the state of the Philadelphian Society in the aftermath of Jane Lead’s death in 1704. It challenges the centrality of her matriarchal authority and portrays her instead as a controversial, divisive figure among the... more
Hugo Grotius' Treatise De veritate religionis christianae had a big impact in his time and in the floowing centuries. The article gives a short survey of Grotius' life and main works and focuses afterwards on a discussion about the... more
Religious conflict and civil war plunged Europe into severe crises in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focussing on the French monarchy,Mona Garloff analyses the wider European struggle in which these conflicts became embroiled.... more
The intellectual achievements of Ioannes Broscius (Jan Brożek, 1585−1652) are fairly well-studied: his research in the field of geometry and algebra has been explored in several studies, along with his involvement in anti-Jesuit polemics,... more
On the basis of the seminal paper On the Historical and Dogmatic Methods in Theology authored by Ernst Troeltsch and of critical assessments of his polemicists, mainly Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann, this article aims to recognise... more
The Aberdeen Doctors promoted concord between Reformed and Lutheran churches in Europe and between evangelical parties in Scotland. Their efforts to establish concord internationally implied tolerance between Protestant parties with... more
Der Konsens von Sendomir in der europäischen Irenik, w: Confessio im Konflikt. Religiöse Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung in der Frühen Neuzeit. Ein Studienbuch, hrsg. von Mona Garloff, Christian Volkmar Witt, Göttingen 2019, s. 255–278,
The liturgy has often been a source of conflict within Christian communities. After comparing several recent exhortations by Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI concerning the importance of the unity of the Church, this essay... more