War and Supernature
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War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe
The debates of intellectuals both Catholic and Protestant have much to tell us about the nature of religious warfare in early modern Europe. In the seventeenth century, the small numbers of radical Catholics and Protestants who fa...
The debates of intellectuals both Catholic and Protestant have much to tell us about the nature of religious warfare in early modern Europe. In the seventeenth century, the small numbers of radical Catholics and Protestants who favoured imposing their own version of Christianity on others by force were accused by moderates (no less religiously sincere) within their own communities of promoting wars incompatible with Christian orthodoxy. Religious faith, the moderates insisted, was a supernatural thing, a gift of God, rather than a natural thing, a creation of rational humans, and thus could not be imposed by force. Arguments for religious war in the sense of evangelisation by force were thus resisted by most of the educated European elite. These debates among university-based Catholic and Protestant intellectuals took place in the Latin language and are insufficiently known to political historians of early modern Europe. Political historians examining the phenomenon of early modern religious war impose the modern categories of sacred (which they associate with the irrational) and secular (which they posit must be drained of the divine) on the past, mistakenly assuming that those who opposed evangelisation by force were somehow more secular than their opponents and composing a false history of secularisation.
This project will analyse, translate, edit, and publish these scholastic debates between religious militants and religious moderates on the role of force in religious life in order to inform and re-shape arguments among political historians on the nature of religious warfare. One focus of the project will be the Franciscan intellectual tradition which favoured evangelisation by force. But some Protestants and especially Calvinists also brought the supernatural very far into human life, and the project will insist on the utility of that distinction between natural and supernatural in composing a trans-confessional history of religious militancy.
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Duración del proyecto: 60 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2016-02-08
Fecha Fin: 2021-02-28
Fecha Fin: 2021-02-28
Línea de financiación: concedida
El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2021-02-28
Línea de financiación objetivo
El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ERC-StG-2015:
ERC Starting Grant
Cerrada
hace 9 años
Presupuesto
El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a
1M€
Líder del proyecto
THE QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST
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Perfil tecnológico
TRL
4-5
Perfil tecnológico
TRL
4-5
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