The Religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century.
Economic and political factors drove many expulsions, but religion was the factor most commonly used to justify them..
Their migrations across Europe and around the globe shaped the Early Modern World and profoundly affected literature, art, and culture.
Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Jews, Muslims, and Christians were forced from their homes and into temporary or permanent exile.
The Religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century