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The Waldensians, Bucer, Beza, Castellio, and French-German Confessional Diplomacy 1556/7

The Waldensians, Bucer, Beza, Castellio, and French-German Confessional Diplomacy 1556/7 By Cornel Zwierlein The history of toleration and the history of diplomacy are seldom linked. The former seems to belong to church historians and historians of ideas, the latter to historians of politics and international law. This article will show instances of `confessional diplomacy' during the 1550s, where the necessities of cooperation on the international level produced unexpected outcomes on the level of enactment of `ideas'. Towards defining `confessional diplomacy', and by way of example, I will examine the specific logical considerations underlying diplomatic efforts made by the South German Protestant princes in 1557 to intervene with the French king on behalf of the Piedmont Waldensians. Using this example, I will articulate the emergent paradox between the form and content of confessional diplomacy, one occasioned by the reintroduction of religion into an inter-state dialogue which had hitherto been political and secular. Next, I will argue, drawing on previously unknown sources, that in 1556/7, this reintroduction of religion into European diplomacy, along with the resulting exchange between different European regions, produced a case of Hegelian "irony of history" on the level of political thought. Theodore Beza and Guillaume Farel, fervent supporters of Calvin's rigorous position against Castellio's advocacy of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History de Gruyter

The Waldensians, Bucer, Beza, Castellio, and French-German Confessional Diplomacy 1556/7

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By Cornel Zwierlein The history of toleration and the history of diplomacy are seldom linked. The former seems to belong to church historians and historians of ideas, the latter to historians of politics and international law. This article will show instances of `confessional diplomacy' during the 1550s, where the necessities of cooperation on the international level produced unexpected outcomes on the level of enactment of `ideas'. Towards defining `confessional diplomacy', and by way of example, I will examine the specific logical considerations underlying diplomatic efforts made by the South German Protestant princes in 1557 to intervene with the French king on behalf of the Piedmont Waldensians. Using this example, I will articulate the emergent paradox between the form and content of confessional diplomacy, one occasioned by the reintroduction of religion into an inter-state dialogue which had hitherto been political and secular. Next, I will argue, drawing on previously unknown sources, that in 1556/7, this reintroduction of religion into European diplomacy, along with the resulting exchange between different European regions, produced a case of Hegelian "irony of history" on the level of political thought. Theodore Beza and Guillaume Farel, fervent supporters of Calvin's rigorous position against Castellio's advocacy of

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Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History – de Gruyter

Published: Oct 1, 2015

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