Description
This course examines the history of religious violence and exile in late medieval and early modern Europe (c.1350-c.1700), considering Europe?s religious reformations from the alternative perspective of communities that experienced social marginalization, persecution, and, in many cases, exile and mass migration as the result religious reform. Through close reading of primary sources enriched by the critical insights of recent scholarship, students will develop and apply a less familiar lens to the study of the European reformations: one that presses beyond theological debates and ecclesial divisions to revisit the narrative of the Reformation as the story of religious refugees.