Cultural Exchange Early Modern Europe Volume 1 Hardcover 9780521845465

Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe: Volume 1 (Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe 4 Volume Hardback Set)\nCambridge University Press\nHardcover\nUnused and unread, minor cosmetic imperfections such as scuffing or minor creasing. Stamped 'damaged' by publisher to a non-text page.\nEAN: 9780521845465\nPublished 01/03/2007\nLanguage: English\nReligious beliefs, their practice and expression, were fundamental to the cultural fabric of early modern Europe. They were representations of belonging, identity, power and social meaning. In the era of Europe's reformations and subsequent confessionalizations coinciding with its first colonial empires and its conflictual relations with other faiths on its eastern borderlands, this volume, first published in 2007, examines the role of religion as a vehicle for cultural conflict, cohabitation and cultural exchange. Essays by leading historians show the complexity and diversity of the processes of religious differentiation that contribu.