Biography
Benjamin Esswein’s field of study is Early Modern Europe and the Reformation. He deals directly with Central and Eastern Europe, the Austro-Ottoman Borderlands in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. The building of confessional churches in the region and the give and take of power between Protestants and Catholics as they fought against the Ottoman Turks has been the focus of his dissertation and continual studies. Confessionally diverse regions in the Balkans that included Catholics, Reformed and Lutheran Protestants, Radicals, Orthodox and Muslims form the basis for this continued research.
Publications
Monograph:
Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio: Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands (Featured). New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016.
Articles:
“Distinguished Perspectives: The Disciplines of Sociology and History in Modern Society” in Sociology is Rude, by John S. Knox, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2019.
“‘More Peace than with Pikes and Muskets’: Spread of the Gospel in 16th century Eastern Europe” in Faith and the Academy, 2:1, Fall 2017.
Reviews:
“Review of Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America” in Sixteenth Century Journal, Winter 2020.
“Review of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review; Reformation 500, vol. 106, no. 424 (2017/2018)” in Sixteenth Century Journal, Summer 2020.
“Review of Margaret King, Reformation Thought: An Anthology of Sources.” in Sixteenth Century Journal, Winter 2017.
Dissertation
Territorial Churches in the Austrian/Ottoman Borderlands, 1550-1565: Hans Ungnad, Primus Truber, and Peter Paul Vergerio: December 2013.