From German-speaking Catholics to French carpenters: Strasbourg guilds and the role of confessional boundaries in the inclusion and exclusion of foreigners in the eighteenth century

Sonkajärvi, Hanna

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“…Religion, as it did in Strasbourg and many other European cities, shaped much of Dublin's history in this period and deeply affected the reception of immigrants by the guilds. 87 Until 1641, Catholics could freely become citizens and guild members. In the 1650s they were for a time expelled from the city.…”

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The Guilds of Dublin and Immigrants in the Seventeenth Century

Whelan¹

2012

Irish Economic and Social History

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A recurring theme in the history of Dublin was the city's efforts to enhance and preserve its heritage of civic privileges, obtained through a series of royal grants dating back to its foundation. These rights and immunities informed all aspects of Dublin society, shaping its political, legal and economic structures. This article will examine the efforts of guilds and the civic elite to defend their economic privileges in the face of threats from immigrant artisans or traders. It will pay especial attention to the ways in which a changing religious and political situation influenced policy in this area. In 1600 the aldermanic elite that oversaw the city's finances, policing and administration was a religiously mixed grouping. After 1650, apart from the Jacobite interlude, it became an avowedly Protestant body, although the patriciate still remained divided between dissenters and adherents of the Church of Ireland. 1 There was, however, significant continuity in terms of social composition, in that the patricians were mainly wealthy traders, closely linked to the merchant guild and keen to preserve the city's privileges out of economic and political self-interest. In 1672, for example, the New Rules imposed by the government, in an ostensible bid to boost trade, sought to enfranchise more citizens, chiefly by reducing the entry fine. 2 The civic elite, though deeply divided along political and religious lines, united to defend the corporation's control over the admission of new citizens. 3 The number enfranchised upon payment of an entry fine actually declined from a yearly average of 34 before 1672 to 24 after that date. 4

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2012

Irish Economic and Social History

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Coexisting in Intolerance under the Edict of Pacification

Kang

2023

French Historical Studies

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This article examines the legal battle between Catholics and Huguenots over the articles of the Edict of Nantes from 1650 to 1685 in Normandy. Their legal disputes show us how seventeenth-century French people perceived the issues of religious tolerance and coexistence by focusing on how the edict's articles controlling Protestant worship spaces were interpreted and implemented. Norman Catholics attempted to outlaw Protestant temples, but they had to move within the edict's authority. Norman Huguenots still could deflect unfavorable decisions through legal recourse based on the edict. Even if confessional antagonism remained alive, and the Revocation finally upended the legal cohabitation of the two confessions, the legal battle reveals that by transforming the main character of religious conflict from a deadly fight to a judicial matter, French Catholics and Protestants bit by bit adapted into a new type of confessional relationship: coexisting with “abominable heretics.”

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From German-speaking Catholics to French carpenters: Strasbourg guilds and the role of confessional boundaries in the inclusion and exclusion of foreigners in the eighteenth century

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The Guilds of Dublin and Immigrants in the Seventeenth Century

The Guilds of Dublin and Immigrants in the Seventeenth Century

Coexisting in Intolerance under the Edict of Pacification

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