Between 1583 and 1700, there were two calendars in use in the Holy Empire, with a gap of ten days between them. It is generally said that one of the calendars, the Gregorian, was Catholic, and the other, the old Julian calendar, was Protestant. There is no theological reason for this division, nor is it absolute, a fact demonstrated by the case studied in this article. In 1668, the Elector of Brandenburg (Protestant) imposed a transition to the (supposedly Catholic) Gregorian calendar on his subjects of the principality of Minden in Westphalia (with a Protestant majority). The arguments of the various protagonists in this decision and the debates it engendered reveal synergies and shifts between the religious and other domains (including ec...
Le topos d'une Vienne « bastion de la Chrétienté » naquit, au début du XVIe siècle, d'une menace tur...
Everyday Life between Conflict and Tolerance. Observations concerning the Confessional Policy of Bra...
To choose 1517 as the anniversary date of the Reformation is problematic. Why the Ninety-five Theses...
Entre 1583 et 1700, le Saint-Empire romain germanique connaît deux calendriers, décalés de dix jours...
My paper analyzes a series of debates regarding the logical, mathematical, political and religious c...
The denominational history on the left bank of the Rhine is indissociable from the political history...
The dissertation discusses the construction of Europe's new political geography after the Roman empi...
Research has rejected Leopold von Ranke’s hypothesis that the Reformation emasculated the Holy Roman...
This study explores the relationship in the Holy Roman Empire between an ecclesiastical principality...
Abstract Even though a significant proportion of its population was Catholic, Prussia was long regar...
The Polish version of the article was published in “Roczniki Humanistyczne,” vol. 59 (2011), issue 2...
The place of Catholicism in modem Germany has constantly evolved according to the different uses to ...
From Uniformity to Tolerance : Religious Denominations and Urban Society in Germany, 1650-1800 This...
Protestant Federalism and Imperial Power. Confessional Plurality in the Holy Roman Empire of the Ger...
This article looks at the issue of confesionality and the presence of Protestant doctrine in early m...
Le topos d'une Vienne « bastion de la Chrétienté » naquit, au début du XVIe siècle, d'une menace tur...
Everyday Life between Conflict and Tolerance. Observations concerning the Confessional Policy of Bra...
To choose 1517 as the anniversary date of the Reformation is problematic. Why the Ninety-five Theses...
Entre 1583 et 1700, le Saint-Empire romain germanique connaît deux calendriers, décalés de dix jours...
My paper analyzes a series of debates regarding the logical, mathematical, political and religious c...
The denominational history on the left bank of the Rhine is indissociable from the political history...
The dissertation discusses the construction of Europe's new political geography after the Roman empi...
Research has rejected Leopold von Ranke’s hypothesis that the Reformation emasculated the Holy Roman...
This study explores the relationship in the Holy Roman Empire between an ecclesiastical principality...
Abstract Even though a significant proportion of its population was Catholic, Prussia was long regar...
The Polish version of the article was published in “Roczniki Humanistyczne,” vol. 59 (2011), issue 2...
The place of Catholicism in modem Germany has constantly evolved according to the different uses to ...
From Uniformity to Tolerance : Religious Denominations and Urban Society in Germany, 1650-1800 This...
Protestant Federalism and Imperial Power. Confessional Plurality in the Holy Roman Empire of the Ger...
This article looks at the issue of confesionality and the presence of Protestant doctrine in early m...
Le topos d'une Vienne « bastion de la Chrétienté » naquit, au début du XVIe siècle, d'une menace tur...
Everyday Life between Conflict and Tolerance. Observations concerning the Confessional Policy of Bra...
To choose 1517 as the anniversary date of the Reformation is problematic. Why the Ninety-five Theses...