Confessionalization on the frontier: the Balkan Catholics between Roman reform and Ottoman reality

This book presents a lesser-known chapter of the cultural history of the Ottoman Balkans, the world of its Catholic communities and institutions. Alongside Orthodox Christians, Muslims and Jews, Catholics lived in nearly every area of the Balkan Peninsula in the 16th and 17th centuries. The great re...

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Published in:Interadria
Main Author: Molnár, Antal 1969- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Roma viella [2019]
In: Interadria (22)
Series/Journal:Interadria 22
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Balkan / Religion / Confession / History 1600-1700
B Balkan peninsula / Catholic church / Confessionalization / History 1600-1700
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Summary:This book presents a lesser-known chapter of the cultural history of the Ottoman Balkans, the world of its Catholic communities and institutions. Alongside Orthodox Christians, Muslims and Jews, Catholics lived in nearly every area of the Balkan Peninsula in the 16th and 17th centuries. The great religious revolution of the early modern age, confessionalization, did not leave the Balkan Catholics untouched. Unlike the Christian confessional states of Europe, the Ottoman Empire, with Islam as its state religion, neither assisted nor impeded the formation of denominations, but put many obstacles in the way of their institutional growth. The confessionalization of Catholics in the European frontier regions of the Ottoman Empire thus resulted in a peripheral and unestablished Catholicism.0This book explores the peculiarities of this local Catholic confessionalization in the Balkans through a micro-analytical approach. The prime objective of the book is to contribute ? through an exploration of the history of the Balkan Catholics ? to the renewal of research into the early modern Mediterranean world
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:8833130800