Refugee "nations" and Empire-Building in the Early Modern Period

This article investigates to what extent the early modern period as the Confessional, Imperial and Economic Age was also an age of tolerance, how much early modern empires depended on religious minorities willing to migrate and settle overseas, how much in the words of Jonathan Israel religious migr...

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Main Author: Lachenicht, Susanne 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2019
In: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Year: 2019, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 99-109
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BH Judaism
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KBA Western Europe
KDD Protestant Church
SA Church law; state-church law
Further subjects:B Migration
B Refugees
B Sephardi Jews
B Nations
B Huguenots
B empire-building
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Summary:This article investigates to what extent the early modern period as the Confessional, Imperial and Economic Age was also an age of tolerance, how much early modern empires depended on religious minorities willing to migrate and settle overseas, how much in the words of Jonathan Israel religious migrants were "agents and victims of empire". Jonathan Israel, Diasporas Within a Diaspora: Jews, Crypto-Jews and the World of Maritime Empires, 1540-1740 (Leyden: Brill 2002), 1. I will take the example of Sephardi Jews and Huguenots to analyse the agencies of persecuted religious minorities in negotiating terms and conditions for their (re-)settlement - more often than not as separate nations or at least separate communities within the ever-growing European empires.
ISSN:2196-6656
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/jemc-2019-2004