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CATHOLIC RESTORATION AND CONFESSIONAL TOLERANCES / INTOLERANCES IN THE BROADER REGION OF TRIPLEX CONFINIUM UP TO 1630’S: THE EXAMPLE OF THE TOWN KOPRIVNICA
Hrvoje PETRIĆ
Abstract
During the seventeenth century social structures and society in the town of Koprivnica experienced significant and dynamic ethno-confessional changes. This article investigates relation between the Catholic renovation and confessional tolerances / intolerances on the wider region of the military border between Venetian Republic, Ottoman Empire and Habsburg Empire. The case study is the town of Koprivnica, settled in the archbishopric of Zagreb, because of its confessional plurality during the last decades of the sixteenth and the first decades of the seventeenth centuries. At the beginning of the seventeenth century Orthodox Vlachs came to Koprivnica as members of military troops and at the end of the same century new Orthodox population arrived to the town, known as »Greek«
merchants. Around 1630 Catholic Church in Koprivnica began its consolidation, which was followed by reorganisation of fi nancial and military management of military border in Slavonia (military principality of Varaždin). Regarding this, it is interesting to note that soon after 1630 most of the Protestants left Koprivnica, as well as the majority of the Orthodox population. This fact undoubtedly suggests that a certain level of intolerance existed in Koprivnica. Moreover, the intolerance can be traced on the case of a small Muslim group in Koprivnica, which was systematically Christianised. However, the sources rarely explicitly witness confessional transfers of Koprivnica’s inhabitants. Therefore, this sensitive problem still is rather open and unsolved, though this article represents a certain contribution regarding this question.
Keywords
Catholic renovation; religious history; tolerance; intolerance; early modern ages
Hrčak ID:
9518
URI
Publication date:
7.6.2006.
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