Garloff, Mona; Witt, Christian V.
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019
ISBN: 978-3-525-57142-2
DOI: 10.13109/9783666571428
Confessio im Konflikt
Religiöse Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung in der Frühen Neuzeit. Ein Studienbuch
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz: Beihefte, 129: Abt. Abendländische ReligionsgeschichteGöttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019
ISBN: 978-3-525-57142-2
DOI: 10.13109/9783666571428

This collection of interdisciplinary case studies intends to pursue the connections between medially and discursively expressed perceptions of self and others and subjective individual confessions in their early modern forms. It illuminates exemplarily the interaction of the act of confession and the formation of perception, and investigates its forms of realization and articulation in Early Modern Europe. In this context the influencing factors of the Confession, as medially expressed, are emphasized just as much as its impact through historiographical reception. To this end the case studies take into consideration inter- and innerconfessional discourses between personalities and institutions that are not only dealt with literary, through theological treatises, or the writing of history, but also through media such as pamphlets, contractual texts, and productions of festivals. In this process an international perspective has been chosen consciously in order to sharpen the perception of structural commonalities and differences.