Medkonfesionalno sobivanje v zgodnjenovoveškem Podravju: primer protestantske dekliške šole Ane Totting v času protireformacije ▪︎ Confessional Coexistence in Early Modern Podravje: The Case of Anna Totting’s Protestant School for Girls during the Counter-Reformation

Abstract

This paper addresses the confessional coexistence of Catholics and Protestants in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Ptuj and Maribor. Based on recent studies, the paper demonstrates that in the Lower Styrian Podravje region, as in many parts of Europe, confessional coexistence and tolerance were maintained by kinship, neighbourly, class and economic ties, which also impeded the Counter-Reformation at the local level. A prominent example of the long-lived tolerance in the Podravje region was Anna Totting's Protestant school for girls in the early seventeenth-century Ptuj. Despite the pressure of the princely Counter-Reformation, Anna's interconfessional familial and neighbourly solidarity enabled the school’s survival for almost a decade.