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The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition - Hardcover

Jesse Spohnholz

 
9781107193116: The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition

Synopsis

This book solves a centuries-old mystery from the Reformation that forces us to rethink how humans engage with the past.

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About the Author

Jesse Spohnholz is Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Roots of Contemporary Issues Program at Washington State University. He also holds a research post at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His books include The Tactics of Toleration: A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars (2011) and (co-edited), Archaeologies of Confession: Writing Histories of Religion in Germany, 1517–2017 (forthcoming) and Exile and Religious Identity, 1500–1800 (2014). He has been awarded the Gerald Strauss Book Prize, the Fritz Stern Prize in German History and the Harold J. Grimm Prize in Reformation Studies.

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