apl. Prof. Dr. Christopher Voigt-Goy
Time at IEG: 2011–2025
Research projects:
European Religious Peace Agreements - A Digital Edition (EuReD)
The long-term project "European Religious Peace Digital" was approved within the framework of the Academies Programme jointly funded by the federal and state governments. It is being carried out at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG) and at the University and State Library Darmstadt (ULB).
Religious Peace Treaties in Europe as Legal Orders of Confessional Diversity in a Comparative Perspective
Overcoming conflicts that had arisen from the denominational pluralisation of Europe since the Reformation represented a peculiar challenge for peacekeeping and peace building between 1500 and 1800. Important for this resolution of conflicts were the various decrees, edicts, capitulations and treaties by which secular, i.e. non-religious powers legally regulated the coexistence of different Christian belief systems since the 16th century.
Religious Preservation of Peace and Peace-making in Europe (1500–1800) – Digital Edition of Early Modern religious Peace Treaties
The edition provides for the first time the textual basis for comparative research on Early Modern religious peace-making in Europe. It includes detailed introductions and commentaries and covers the period from 1485 (Peace of Kuttenberg) to 1788 (so-called Woellner Edict of Religion).
Religious Settlements and the Communication of Theological Experts
The project is completed. It was dedicated to the expert activities of theologians in the context of early modern religious peace. The focus was on the indexing and processing of the faculty opinions of Lutheran theologians for the purpose of shaping the framework orders created by the religious peace between the late 16th and early 18th centuries.