Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529-1819 (Paperback)

Preface; Abbreviations; illustrations; Introduction; 1. The struggle for political stability and purity of belief: Hamburg from Reformation to French Revolution; 2. The politics of toleration: the catholic community; 3. The limits of toleration: Sephardim and Ashkenazim; 4. The growth of toleration: the calvinist communities; 5. Patriotism versus Orthodoxy: the struggle for limited religious freedom, 1760?85; 6. The image of the city: the search for a tolerant society in early modern Hamburg; 7. The aftermath; Bibliography; Index.