Early Modern Ethnic and Religious Communities in Exile

Description

In the Early Modern period, the religious refugee became a constant presence in the European landscape, a presence which was felt, in the wake of processes of globalization, on other continents as well. During the religious wars, which raged in Europe at the time of the Reformation, and as a result of the persecution of religious minorities, hundreds of thousands of men and women were forced to go into exile and to restore their lives in new settings. In this collection of articles, an international group of historians focus on several of the significant groups of minorities who were driven into exile from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The contributions here discuss a broad range of topics, including the ways in which these communities of belief retained their identity in foreign climes, the religious meaning they accorded to the experience of exile, and the connection between ethnic attachment and religious belief, among others. Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Mobility, Community, and Religious Identity in the Early Modern Period I. Transplanted Communities Portable Homeland The Greek Confraternity of Sant’ Anna Dei Greci in Ancona Transnational Dissidence Vanishing Fatherlands and Moving Identities II. Iberian Exiles Cross and Cross Again Moriscos in North Africa after the Expulsion from Spain in 1609 and Their Discourse about Exile and Diaspora Between Religion and Ethnicity III. Preservation of Identity Waldensian Identity in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Composite Religions and Ideas in Exile Negotiating Identity among the Nação in Early Modern Rome Quakers between Martyrdom and Missionary Activity Exile and Return in Anglo-American Puritanism IV. Boundaries Maintained Creating Boundaries in Emden, Germany Memories of a Bygone Diaspora The Domestic and International Roles of the Early Modern Irish Catholic Diaspora Contributors Index of Names and Places