Strange brethren :: refugees, religious bonds, and reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608 /

"Strange Brethren traces the first half century of refugee life in Frankfurt am Main, a major destination for refugees, beginning in 1554 when the city granted twenty-four families of foreign Protestants fleeing religious persecution housing, workspace, and their own church, through the arrival...

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Main Author: Scholz, Maximilian Miguel, 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Series:Studies in early modern German history.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"Strange Brethren traces the first half century of refugee life in Frankfurt am Main, a major destination for refugees, beginning in 1554 when the city granted twenty-four families of foreign Protestants fleeing religious persecution housing, workspace, and their own church, through the arrival of thousands more refugees. Scholz shows how the arrival of these refugees transformed Christianity in Frankfurt, with the city's Protestants dividing into competing camps that exist to this day-Lutheran natives and Reformed (Calvinist) foreigners"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 244 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:081394676X
9780813946764