Religious Diaspora in Early Modern Europe Strategies of Exile

This collection of essays looks at the shared experience of exile across different groups in the early modern period. Contributors argue that exile is a useful analytical tool in the study of a wide variety of peoples previously examined in isolation.

Introduction, Greta Grace Kroeker; Chapter 1 Trade in Tolerance: The Portuguese New Christians of Antwerp, 1530–50, Victoria Christman; Chapter 2 Swimming Against the Tide: The Entry of Jews in Spain. Religious Mobility, Social Control and Integration at the End of the Ancien Régime, Marina Torres Arce; Chapter 3 Populating a ‘Nest of Pirates, Murtherers, etc.’: Tuscan Immigration Policy and Ragion Di Stato in the free Port of Livorno, Stephanie Nadalo; Chapter 4 Exile, Education and Eschatology in the Works of Jan Amos Comenius and John Milton, David Parry; Chapter 5 5 Missionaries as Exiles: Calvinist Strategies for Restoration in Communities Under the Dutch East India Company, Charles H. Parker; Chapter 6 Niccolò Guidalotto Da Mondavio and his City View of Constantinople (1662): The Experience of an Exile, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby; Chapter 7 Educating for Martyrdom: British Exiles in the English College at Valladolid, Berta Cano-Echevarría, and Ana Sáez-Hidalgo; Chapter 8 Freedom as Exile: Michael Servetus and the Alumbrados, María Tausiet; Chapter 9 Coping with Poverty: Dutch Reformed Exiles in Emden, Germany, Timothy G. Fehler; Chapter 10 Anabaptist Migration to Moravia and the Hutterite Brethren, Emese Balint; Chapter 11 Chaos and Community: 1492 and the Formation of the Sephardic Diaspora, Jonathan Ray; Chapter 12 Displaced Intellectuals and Rebuilt Networks: The Protestant Exiles from the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, Vladimír Urbánek;

Fehler, Timothy G.; Kroeker, Greta Grace; Parker, Charles H.; Ray, Jonathan